Overview

One of the biggest challenges facing organizations is how to fully engage employees. Leaders recognize the benefits of an engaged workforce such as lower turnover, greater productivity, and performance, but they often lack the knowledge about how to get there.

You can engage your employees by the questions you ask. Have you ever thought about how the questions you ask can influence others?

This session addresses how to ask questions that invite people to find their purpose and passion. You will learn Appreciative Inquiry - one of the most effective and widely used approaches for fostering positive change (www.cwh.today) and SOAR for coaching into action (www.soar-strategy.com)

Objectives

1. You will learn how to communicate most effectively by asking the right questions. Questions that surface assumptions, create shared understanding, generate new knowledge, and inspire possibilities.

2. You will be introduced to Appreciative Inquiry and the power of generative questions to fuel productive and meaningful engagement.

3. You will be introduced to SOAR to help others create strategies to achieve meaningful and measurable results. SOAR is a profoundly positive approach to strategic thinking, planning, conversations, and leading.

Target Audience

Those who want to learn to best manage and lead with their conversations

Presentation Outline:

Presentation will focus on four areas:

Question 1: Is there such a thing as asking a right question?

Question 2: What is humanistic AI?

Question 3: What is the power of generativity in your questions that leads change?

Question 4: How might you questions help others to SOAR?

Short Bio of the Prsenter

JACKIE STAVROS, DM, passion is working with others to create purpose and meaningful results for positive change. She is recognized for her creation of SOAR, a positive approach to strategic thinking, planning, conversations, and leading (www.soar-strategy.com). She is professor and management consultant in the College of Business and Information Technology at Lawrence Technological University. She is a Faculty Athletic Representative at LTU, where she enjoys working with student athletes to empower them to navigate and advocate for themselves. She inspires them with lifework not homework. She has co-authored many articles and books with two recent: Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement (www.cwh.today) and Learning to SOAR: Creating Strategy that Inspires Innovation and Engagement. She has worked across all sectors and in over 25 countries using Appreciative Inquiry (AI) to affect the lives of thousands or people and hundreds of organizations improve capacity to thrive and increase performance. She is co-founder of CWH Institute, Inc.

Her research is grounded in AI, neuroscience, and positive psychology to help others understand how their conversations influence their wellbeing and ability to succeed. She is on a mission to co-create a global movement of conversations worth having to recognize each other’s humanity and create organizations and communities that work for everyone. Her work has been featured in Forbes, SmartBrief, Detroit’s Live in the D, People & Strategy, and leadership and training blogs and podcasts. She is a keynote speaker on positive approaches to leadership, strategy, management, conversations, and change. She earned a Doctor of Management in Capacity Building Using an Appreciative Approach: A Relational Process of Building Your Organization’s Future at Case Western Reserve University. She holds an MBA in International Marketing from Michigan State University and BA in Marketing from Wayne State University. Jackie lives in Brighton, MI with her husband Paul and her loveable dogs, Rex and Bo! She enjoys spending time with her family outdoors, playing board games, or visiting the local farmers markets. Email: [email protected]