Positivity Strategist

Reflecting on all the delicious diversity of perspectives on the topic of Appreciative Leading including stories on the significance of the relational process, connection, collaboration, love.

Going meta on the topic of Appreciative Leading, Sheila McNamee offers us the social constructionist's perspective: what leading means as a relational process rather than as an individual's characteristics, traits or skills.

A well-connected, social entrepreneur, committed to bringing a positive impact to his city is convening an Appreciative Inquiry Summit, calling all interested stakeholders to come together to imagine the future of their city.

Applying Appreciative Inquiry in framing conversations to build the partnerships and strengthen collaboration in healthcare. Storytelling is a way to pull forward the positive from the past to envision more positive futures

Seven Strategies for Appreciative Leading in Challenging Times

Searching for the soul of leading requires that you love people. You can never be a good leader if you don't have a good follower and you can never be a good follower if you don't have a good leader. So you really need each other. http://positivitystrategist.com/ps111

J. Kim Wright: "Lawyers, in general, have much higher rates of addiction and suicide. Yet, people who were practicing these new holistic ways were much healthier. I took that on. My mission was to learn about this and then to actually bring this message to the mainstream." http://positivitystrategist.com/j-kim-wright-law-peacemakers

Creating a community conversation for input into our strategic plan to tap into the energy, passion, excitement and good ideas across our community, thereby helping us to navigate these very interesting times in higher education. http://positivitystrategist.com/ps109

How to Create a Flourishing Enterprise - Appreciative Leading - PS108

How to Bring the New to LIfe - Generative Journalism - PS107

Inspirational Stories About Appreciative Leading: What Are They? - PS106

It’s time to do something different again. Change is good. This episode closes out Season 2, co-hosted with Sallie Lee. If you missed any of those 10 episodes, I urge you to listen: seven literacies are explained for living and leading in our times. In this show find out about our next new Season, entitled Appreciative Leading - conversations with leaders across all sectors who are agents of positive change. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps105

To close this Season, we reflect on Appreciative Voice and how the seven literacies are impacting our thinking and relationships. You’ll hear examples of others working to build capacity for increased well-being in life and in leadership roles. And, we introduce our new thinking and learning about human capacity: four assumptions of changing beliefs about what we’re all capable of and how that might reframe our realities. Visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps104

Anticipating what is possible and how we fuel it is the topic of this literacy: Finding the Future.  It helps to envision a better future if we shift what’s going on that isn’t serving to that which is serving in any given situation because all futures are shared futures. We shape the future through the images we hold and the conversations we participate in.  For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps

Connecting the collective is the work of hearts and minds. This literacy focuses us on living into the “we.” Connecting and belonging are the life-blood of human organizing and relationships. When we acknowledge the wisdom available to us and put greater value on that which the collective offers us, we open up to new insights about dynamics, dialogue, and decisions. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps