| Session Title: Appreciative Inquiry and Evaluation: The "What?" and the "How?" in Building Evaluation Capacity |
| Skill-Building Workshop 934 to be held in Palos Verdes B on Saturday, Nov 5, 12:35 PM to 2:05 PM |
| Sponsored by the Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building |
| Presenter(s): |
| Anna Dor, Claremont Graduate University, annador@hotmail.com |
| Abstract: Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a phenomenon that looks at what is working right in organizations by engaging people to look at the best of their past experiences in order to imagine the future they want and find capacity to move into that future. In AI, language that describes deficiencies is replaced by positive questions and approaches. While AI has been as an organizational behavior intervention, its application as an evaluation tool leads to building evaluation capacity and enabling an organization to become a learning organization. In AI all stakeholders are actively involved in the evaluation process which eliminates the "us" vs. "them" perception. This workshop is designed to help participants learn about Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and how they can facilitate an AI in their organization as internal/external evaluators, consultants, and leaders. |