AI - no, not artificial intelligence

As we're getting towards the end of the course we've pretty much covered all the content we need to. To keep the learners engaged over the next couple of weeks, I'm running some workshops on subjects which are additional to what's required but still relevant to the subject area.

So, this week I ran a workshop on appreciative enquiry. This is quite a difficult concept to explain so I ran it with them as I would in a real situation. Appreciative enquiry is a way of using delegates' existing experience as a firm base for future learning, action and improvements in performance and is typically a 4 stage process:

1. World cafe - group based sharing of experiences

2. Positive core - distilling those experiences down to a handful of behaviours

3. Image of the future - building a clear picture of what the future should look like

4. Making it happen - putting in place actions which use existing behaviours to make the image of the future a reality.

The content of the session seemed to go down very well as it is something that the learners hadn't experienced before and which they could apply to their own training practice.