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

Diana Whitney (Author), Amanda Trosten-Bloom (Author), Jay Cherney (Author), Ron Fry (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0595335039 | ISBN-13: 978-0595335039 | Publication Date: December 16, 2004 0

"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 contribution to the field. Grab it."

--Jane Galloway Seiling
Senior Editor, The Taos Institute Consultant and
Author, The Membership Organization

Product Details

• Paperback: 108 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (December 16, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595335039
• ISBN-13: 978-0595335039
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #153,316 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Both inspirational and eminently practical!, October 19, 2007

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S. James (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team (Paperback)

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!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Complete waste of money, July 8, 2010

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

For each situation that the author proposes, the identical process is used, i.e., "think about a time when you as a team faced a situation like this and how you overcame it." I thought it was going to be a book of creative questions, but it just has one question it asks over and over.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Resource for anyone building a team, April 26, 2010

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D. Thomas "Patient Experience Advocate" (NASHVILLE, TN, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team (Paperback)

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.