Positive Problem Solving Workshop
April 18, 2012 at Western Carolina University
$185
This leadership development course is intended for public staff involved in redesigning or rebuilding professional or community relationships. “Facilitating Positive Change” is the focus of this training event. Appreciative Inquiry is the process tool we will use to guide our practices.
Participants will learn and apply Appreciative Inquiry to:
- Design ways to strengthen your organization's resilience
- Build on past successes in implementing change
- Identify and use the existing assets in any situation
- Discover additional resources to support your work
The course provides for more than the usual amount of interaction with instructors, and the chance to use the course content and apply it to real-time work scenarious while you are in class.
Managers, department heads, supervisors, executive directors and others who facilitate processes of change or redesign.
Lectures, exercises, and group discussions.
Students will receive a copy of and be required to read the following article prior to class:
Positive Problem Solving: How Appreciative Inquiry Works
written by School of Government faculty:
Lydian Altman, Margaret Henderson, and Gordon Whitaker, and Sallie Lee.
10:00am - 2:30pm
This offering will take place at Western Carolina University at the Liston B. Ramsey Regional Activity Center in the Hospitality Room (Room 143).
Liston B. Ramsey Regional Activity Center
92 Catamount Rd.
Cullowhee, NC 28723
828-227-7677
Directions to the Liston B. Ramsey Regional Activity Center can be found here.
Course participants who cancel their registration on or before April 4, 2012 will receive a full refund. Those who cancel on or before April 11, 2012 will receive a full refund, less a $25 cancellation fee. No refund will be made for cancellations made after April 11, 2012. All cancellations must be submitted in writing, as outlined in the School's cancellation policy.
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