Positivity Strategist

We need one another to make sense of all that is going on around us. Finding our personal and collective wholeness contributes to our sense of belonging.  In coming together, our combined intelligence, and intent for wholeness and belonging enables new wisdom and solutions to surface. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps101

Paying attention to and magnifying the positive in people, communities, and networks help us flourish. Among the benefits of knowing our strengths include finding more flow and meaning in work, feeling more energized than drained and seeing our relationships improve by coming from a place of greater ease. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps100

In cultivating compassion, we grow empathy and positive regard for self and others. It encourages us to train our hearts and minds to stay open and offer our best to others.  Growing our understanding of difference, attending to small ways to connect with other, developing our own inner resource to be of service are some of the habits of this literacy. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps99 

This literacy opens us up to our own frames (perspectives) on the world. As we widen our frames, we begin to understand and appreciate the frames of others. Having this literacy to frame and reframe enables us to shift perspective and opens us to possibilities and solutions we may never have even considered if we stayed comfortable with our blinkers on. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps98

The literacy we talk about in this episode is Inviting Inquiry. The principles of Appreciative Inquiry inform us that we move in the direction of our inquiries; questions we ask of ourselves and others. Inquiry stimulates curiosity. Inquiry starts movements. Inquiry questions keep us open to possibilities and enable us to engage in further dialogue. How curious are you about others and the world? For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps97

We set the scene in this episode for what’s to come.  We talk about the origins of Appreciative Voice and how the seven literacies evolved. The intention of these literacies is to enable us to bring all voices into conversations.  They include our need for belonging and connection, and you will make your own connections with the content. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps96

Excited to introduce Season 2 of Positivity Strategist. This new season addresses a significant topic of these times, finding and using our individual and collective appreciative voice. What excites and inspires us particularly about Season 2 is that we introduce seven literacies for living and leading in our times. The literacies are grounded in the Principles of Appreciative Inquiry. The literacies provide a pathway to raising and elevating our appreciative voice.

This may be the last time you will hear this music and this introduction.  Over the last four years, I’ve experimented with a number of different configurations - solo formats to single guest and multiple guests.  It’s time to do something different again. I hope you’ll be as excited as I am when you hear about the new show format. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps94

In this episode, co-authors Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres weave memorable stories throughout their latest book that bring to life to the two practices that underpin conversations worth having: positive framing and generative questions. The stories cross a range of contexts, from healthcare to banking, education, family, technology, manufacturing. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps93

An episode that will awaken your heart and mind and have you want to adopt practices to build your resilience. Resilience increases your ability to weather the storms and come out stronger in your formal and informal leadership roles. My guests talk specifically about appreciative resilience and leadership and how to traverse the ever-changing landscapes of hope, despair, and forgiveness. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps92

Imagine what’s possible when vast numbers of inter-disciplinary groups are engaging in a dialogue regarding learning and leadership and growth and positive evolution. There’s no glass ceiling in this type of curious exploration and discovery and arguably, what the world needs now. Find out more about this special issue of the International Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner Journal. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps91

My Digital Strategist suggests focusing on developing cornerstone content as a way to help you increase visibility on the web. It’s not so difficult, and it’s a skill that you can learn and get better at over time, just like developing any new skill or practice - learn the basics and get stronger with diligent practice, or supportive resources. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps90

This episode offers positivity strategies of a highly commercial and very different kind.  I’m focusing on strategies for marketing and increasing visibility on the web. In this episode, my personal digital strategist shares high-level strategies about how to do just that. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps89

Change is a subject and an experience that brings up so many issues for all of us. Who hasn’t been through change? I focus on how asking questions is the first invitation to change. We say the first question starts the change. It triggers emotions, feeling, thoughts, memories, beliefs and even actions. Positive questions work to move people in the direction they most want. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps88

Some changes we initiate others are thrust upon us. Changes that we ourselves initiate can paradoxically be more challenging than changes that are imposed on us by others. We sometimes have to make really tough decisions and they can be the hardest to implement. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps87