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Ep 238: Cheri Torres, co-author of Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Cheri Torres, co-author of Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Cheri Torres and Jackie Stavros  and Bill Ringle discuss Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement for small business leaders. 

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Top 3 Take-Aways from this Interview

  • When you focus on the problem or ask people what they did wrong, it shifts more energy into protective-defensive mechanisms and people loose (temporarily) their ability to be creativity and productive.
  • It is important to learn positive framing and asking generative questions in dealing with a difficult situation.
  • Appreciative inquiry had been equated with the 5D methodology: Define, Discover, Dream, Design and Destiny/Deploy. It has so many more applications. 

Tweet-Ready Insights from this Episode

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Expert Bio 

Cheri Torres, Ph.D. is CEO at Collaborative by Design (cheritorres.com).

Her mission is to give people simple communication practices that empower them to design organizations and communities that flourish. She partners with people to catalyze positive change in workplaces and communities. The practices she introduces give leaders and teams the power to strengthen relationships, expand possibilities, and increase productivity and engagement through everyday conversation. These practices are grounded in neuroscience, positive psychology, and Appreciative Inquiry.. 

She’s written numerous books and articles; her most recent book is a Berrett Koehler bestseller, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement.

She’s been featured in leading media sources including Fast Company, Forbes, HR Magazine, SmartBrief, Training Industry, and Training Magazine. She’s accumulated a Ph.D. in Collaborative Learning, an MBA, Masters in Transpersonal Psychology, and Level II certification in Spiral Dynamics Integral.

Contact Info for Cheri Torres 

Web address: https://conversationsworthhaving.today/

Travels from: Asheville, NC

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​Books Authored by the Guest

Resources Mentioned During the Interview

Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

https://conversationsworthhaving.today/

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