April 26, 2013 at 7 pm
Canvas, 1203 19th St. NW, Washington, DC
CHANGE IS NOT A DIRTY WORD
Presented by Shannon Polly
Third in our series ”Increasing Well-being in The Workplace Series”
On April 24, our own Shannon Polly, co-founder of Positive Business DC (PBDC), will be presenting Change is Not a Dirty Word, the 3rd in our speaker series Well-being in The Workplace. Shannon (@ShannonPolly) is one of only approximately 300 people in world who has received a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania under Dr. Martin Seligman and has been an assistant instructor in the MAPP program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a contributor to the book, Positive Psychology at Work, has developed curriculum for the higher education version of the movie, Happy and has been a facilitator for the Master Resiliency Training (MRT) program for the U.S. Army.
Shannon will be sharing the methodology associated with positive organizational change known as Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as well as recent insights from AI Summits in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Interestingly, for this session, we took a poll on our website and Appreciative Inquiry came up on top as the topic our members most wanted to hear next. We were not surprised – there has been a lot of buzz around this topic.
If you are not familiar, Appreciative Inquiry looks to amplify what’s right with an organization rather than trying to identify and lessen weaknesses. It is used to evaluate past and present capacities related to achievements, assets, unexplored potentials, innovations, strengths, opportunities, lived values, traditions, strategic competencies, and visions of valued and possible futures. The result can be highly motivating and lead to changes never thought possible.