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Sterling Morton Elementary SchoolTeam Excellence™

August 18, 2003Mentor, OH

Executive Edge, Inc.

Permission Granted to Post on the AI Commons— March 17, 2005


Learning Objectives

• Kick-Start the New School Year– Have fun together in a different learning context

• Identify Individual Personality Preferences– Myers Briggs Type Indicator™

• Identify Current & Target New “Best Practices” – Appreciative Inquiry Interviews and Discussion

– Micro-World Learning Lab

• Practice New Behaviors in a Safe Environment– Micro-World Learning Lab

• Target Action Steps– Identify 2-3 Action Items that Make Sense


Our Day Together

• Morning

• Lunch

• Afternoon

Take MBTI Instrument

Discuss MBTI Material

Paired Appreciative Interviews

Small Group Discussion—”Root Causes of Success”

Micro-World Learning Lab

Action Items


Our Day Together

• Morning

• Afternoon

• Individual– Who Am I?

• Personality Preferences• Hopes & Dreams

• Community– Who are we together?

• Our “Best Practices”• Our Hopes & Dreams

– What actions should we take together?


Appreciative Inquiry

AI is the cooperative search for the best in people and their organizations.

It involves systematic discovery of “what gives a system life” when it is most effective and capable —in economic, ecological and human

terms.

Our Topic: If We Discover Our Best at Sterling Morton, What Might We Become


How It Works… Generally• First, understand the POSITIVE CORE of a living system.

What makes it most effective and vital, in economic, ecological and human terms? – We move in the direction of our deepest and most frequently

asked questions. • Positive guiding images of the future trigger action in the

present. – Images are found in our dialogue with each other. – Ratio of positive to negative statements is a success factor for

change.

– Individuals & groups can then weave the best of what is into formal and informal practices.

• This new approach to change, based on the power of the positive question, has emerged from revolutions in many fields.


Research Studies

• When organizations capture positive imagery internally and make it visible, it starts to drive change in an self-directed way. It creates a sense of focus.

Our image of thefuture drives our

ACTION!

Placebo EffectHelp someone construct an

image of how something mighthappen, and it drives behavior

which creates a change in that direction

Pygmalion EffectChange a teacher’s image of a

student, and their behavior changestoward the student, improving

student performance

SociologyThe study of problems creates an increase in number & severity of

problems. But opposite also occurs.

SportsVivid visualization of one’s performance guides physical performance. Speed of learning when only correct images are

reviewed.

Internal ConversationsStudies of pre and post operativepatients. Difference in recoverybetween positive and negative

imagery.


Comparison to Problem Focus

• What to fix

• Underlying grammar = problem, symptoms, causes, solutions, action plan, intervention

• Breaks things into pieces & specialties, guaranteeing fragmented responses

• Slow! Takes a lot of positive emotion to make real change.

• Assumes organizations are constellations of problems to be overcome

• What to grow

• New grammar of the true, good, better, possible

• “Problem focus” implies that there is an ideal. AI breaks open the box of what the ideal is first.

• Expands vision of preferred future. Creates new energy fast.

• Assumes organizations are sources of infinite capacity and imagination

Problem Solving Appreciative Inquiry


The AI Change Process

Discovery: Opportunity Context

Positive CoreLeveraging “Best Practices”

Dream: Envisioning what might be; shared images for a

preferred future

Design: Finding innovative ways to create that

future; Micro-world Learning

Lab

Destiny: Sustaining the

ChangeTaking Action

TopicThe Best Sterling Morton


AI Team Interviews

• Complete Paired Interviews

– A-->B (20 min)– B-->A (20 min)– Spirit of discovery

– Take brief notes, search – Complete Interview Summary Sheet


Small Group Lunch Discussion

• Self Management and Group leadership roles…(Discussion leader, Timekeeper, Recorder, Reporter)

• Groups Form: 2+2+2=6Introduce your partners vis-à-vis your interviews—share highlights,

insights, high point stories

Root Causes of Success—

• Everyone listen for patterns/insights

• Review Interview Summary Sheets

• Identify trends & themes related to “The Best Sterling Morton”

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