Using Appreciative Inquiry to Advance Extension

Strategy to Address Change

The Appreciative Inquiry philosophy challenges conventional problem-solving methods of managing change. The Extension profession could benefit from utilizing this approach because organizations grow in the direction that they focus and around the questions that they repeatedly ask.

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As a profession, we are good at looking at our problems and trying to improve. However, we think Extension can be great at embracing change by identifying the best of "what is" to pursue possibilities of "what could be" (Cooperrider & Whitney, 1999). The Appreciative Inquiry method looks at organization successes and encourages positive change. Appreciative Inquiry was developed by David Cooperrider and his mentor Suresh Srivasva in the 1980's (Cooperrider & Srivasva, 1987). Businesses, organizations, and individuals have adopted its special approach to organizational improvement. In 2007 the Extension committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP) Leadership Advisory Council published a report on the strengths of Extension and its personnel.

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