Are you familiar with Appreciative Inquiry? It is a term coined by David Cooperrider, Ph.D, a professor in the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Appreciative inquiry is a revolutionary methodology for achieving sustainable, desired, strength-based change. Cooperrider emphasizes that anyone who wants to make a difference in the world has to aim higher and one way to achieve achieve this is for each of us as individuals to support the building of positive institutions. He discussed the importance of the positive human experience, which includes what is good, has hope, joy and inspiration, and applying it to whole systems.

Cooperrider challenges businesses to be agents of world benefit and teaches that applied positive change has four major components, each with important questions -

1. Discovery and asking what gives life for the best of what is: Appreciating
2. Dreaming and asking what might be: Envisioning Results
3. Design and asking what should be: Co-constructing
4. Destiny and asking how to empower: Sustaining

Learn all about this innovative approach to change at http://worldbenefit.case.edu/