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

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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!

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.

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.

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

I was looking for more of an ice-breaker type of activity, to help the team know one another better. The book was more about a team working together to complete a project.