IMPACT: A Social Justice Organisation Remembers Their Resilience

This article highlights the process and key insights of a social justice organisation’s appreciative inquiry into their resilience. Diversity, equity and inclusion principles are central to the Spaciousness theory of change and the Appreciative Leadership Lotus Model used by facilitators to create the space for staff and board to remember their collective resilience. The article reflects on the appreciative resilience of a diverse group of people piloting new technology and translation functionalities.

Tapping the Positive Organizational Potential Through Appreciative Leadership

This chapter brings to the readers a crisp understanding of what appreciative inquiry (AI) is all about in terms of envisioning an effective organization towards sustainability. The chapter journeys through different phases of AI and explains organizational transformations as living systems, energetic and entrenched endeavours of ever-widening webs of unlimited strength and boundless human imagination, can develop into a desired organization. It highlights that HR practices need to focus on the eternal faith upon the dream of a fully functioning organization and focus on how leadership has a role and outcome with respect to appreciative inquiry. Touching upon team effectiveness through AI and how co-owning and co-creating organizational effectiveness is achieved, the chapter also touches upon briefly the required skills of a AI practitioners who lead the change. Finally, it elucidates how AI is used within an evaluation context. The chapter is an attempt to give a crisp message as to how to tap the positive organizational potential by emphasizing the role of appreciative leadership.

Role of Appreciative Leadership in Organizational Development

This chapter discusses the concept of appreciative leadership with emphasis on the formative stages of it and the five strategies, namely inquiry, inclusion, inspiration, illumination, and integrity. It also touches upon the characteristics needed to emerge as an effective appreciative leader, some of them being optimistic, compassionate, innovative, respectful, and treating everyone as equal. The chapter concludes by highlighting the role of appreciative leadership in organizational development.

Appreciative Leadership

The 21st century world is connected through a complex web of different technologies where there are lots of complexities faced by various organizations worldwide. There are challenges in terms of employee attrition, uncertain future, and complex and dynamic policies and procedures. We are also constantly bombarded with cutthroat competition and huge challenges in terms of social, economic, political, and environmental factors. We also see workplace diversity, which has become an area of organizational culture. These varied challenges require another revolution in the domain of management and organization at large wherein newer leadership practices would be called forth. This chapter introduces appreciative leadership as the new and the most powerful approach of leadership that addresses all possible challenges of the new world.