Next Level Blog

JANUARY 19, 2021

Positive Perspective is the last of my big three because it reinforces the first two – connection and optimism. And, in case you’re wondering, positive perspective isn’t the same thing as optimism – it’s an approach that creates and reinforces optimism.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

David Cooperrider What is the best that you see in each of your colleagues? Louise Altman : September 9, 2010 at 5:36 pm Hi Mary Jo, You know what is so important about using Appreciative Inquiry – we now know from the latest neuroscience research that every time we acknowledge what works, what is positive, we are activating the pleasure part of our brains. Marie Wiere : September 12, 2010 at 1:18 am Thank you for such a positive post.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Questions can be great for engaging and motivating people , but they can just as easily be used to confront or blame, and can shift the mood from positive to negative. “We We live in the world our questions create,” says David Cooperrider, a professor at Case Western Reserve University and a pioneer of “Appreciative Inquiry,” which holds that questions focusing on strengths and using positive language are far more useful to organizations than questions with a negative focus.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Questions can be great for engaging and motivating people , but they can just as easily be used to confront or blame, and can shift the mood from positive to negative. “We We live in the world our questions create,” says David Cooperrider, a professor at Case Western Reserve University and a pioneer of “Appreciative Inquiry,” which holds that questions focusing on strengths and using positive language are far more useful to organizations than questions with a negative focus.

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