Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team

by Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Jay Cherney, Diana Whitney

Book Overview

"This book is full of provocative and positive questions that will develop and enhance your team's performance, yielding faster and better results."
--Julie Meiresonne
Director, Customer Relations
Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Division, Broomfield, CO "Take time to savor every page of this book. Let yourself be drawn in by the questions. They will transform how you and others work on a day-to-day basis. This book is a meaningful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595335039
• ISBN13: 9780595335039
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Resource for anyone building a team

If you are tired of the same old "problem" solving techniques and need to build a team and create a high energy environment, try the easy to use suggestions in this book. I gave it to all my sub team leaders.

Both inspirational and eminently practical!

Whether the team with which you work is in a large or small business, in a non-profit organisation, or in a community group, you'll find this book a wonderful resource. As the introduction says "Nearly every significant accomplishment in human systems today comes from the cooperation, positive energy and learning that result from a real team effort." Appreciative Team Building explains the power that results from positive, appreciative questions. Using the strategies, suggestions, sample interview guides and 48 'starting point' questions provided in this book, you can help your team to shift from conversations that are problem-saturated (as they so often can tend to be in our current society) to conversations filled with new creativity, hope and possibility. Also clearly explained is a step-by-step process of Appreciative Inquiry that you can use to guide your team to achieve its own and its members very best potential. Highly recommended!

Appreciative Team Building : Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team (Paperback)

The book was fabulous! I found it really helpful - it is conceptually right on and it is a great and useful tool - Bottom line it fires up both sides of my brain! Susan Copple HR Director Hewlett Packard Company