Advantages of Appreciative Inquiry

AI Benefits
Fred Schoon, Consultant, Netherlands, Member
Mercia, AI is not merely positive thinking. It is much beyond that. It is a profound organizational development approach and one of its major benefits is the amount of energy it mobilizes in comparison to problem solving methods.
My favorite tool are succes stories. I have seen transformations in teams happen while I was standing in front of them.

AI Advantages
Gary Wong, Consultant, Canada, Premium Member
Problem solving is a negative approach where you deliberately look for something that isn't working or going wrong. It's a search for weaknesses. On the other hand, AI is a positive approach where you look for strengths in the form of stories.
Stories can be about successful results achieved or when the person felt very effective even though a positive outcome wasn't accomplished. The transformation comes when storytellers realize because they did it in the past, they can do it again going forward.

Advantages of Appreciative Inquiry
David J. MacCoy, Management Consultant, Canada, Member
AI has been particularly helpful in engaging people to deal with tough situations like, for example, redesign of complex programs, redesign of management structures, strategic planning, bringing different teams together after long periods of conflict.
There is a lot of positive proof of its value. However, it does require some learning and commitment to undertake an AI initiative.

Advantages of AI
Lowell Ann Fuglsang
I might also add that the AI approach works on an individual/personal level as well. I often use it in my coaching work.

Ai and Getting Results
TOLLEC BERNARD, Consultant, France, Member
AI is not only about positive! It's all about the way we see challenges. And transforming them from a problem into possibilities to be explored.
In the video below you'll find practical results (both business and people results). It explains the how and the what we got in terms of results: business improvement results and higher empowerment of people.
AI is not a technique or method, it is really another way of seeing the world and the reality. It is far beyond the only 5D process which is not the only way to live and deploy AI as a way to develop one's organization.
Here is the video. The participants talk about the experience and about the results.