Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team

I would recommend this book to all team leaders or human resource managers who wants to create the best high performing team

I hope this will be great for work and my team

If you are tired of the same old "problem" solving techniques and need to build a team and create a high energy environment, try the easy to use suggestions in this book. I gave it to all my sub team leaders.

Lots of practical advice. Filled with great questions that could be used one by one to build up team strength.

Not much substance, just lots of feel-good buzzwords; hard to imagine any real team leader using the language these authors suggest.

A lot work to do with all the questions of this book, i need to Think in another way to help others

I was looking for more of an ice-breaker type of activity, to help the team know one another better. The book was more about a team working together to complete a project.

Brilliant Book. I depend on it when working with teams.

This short book is a useful jumping-off point for anyone wanting to build a more positive and productive culture in their team.Remember "Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing"? Have a look at this:"Even in training programs to help teams develop effectively, the most popular models today shape participants to expect and welcome storming as a necessary phase of a good team's development. The very idea that in order to get better at teamwork, we must engage in some special form of fighting or arguing with one another is a reason people partly dread being assigned to new teams or projects. The language itself shapes powerful, often self-fulfilling prophecies."It seems so obvious now they've pointed it out!The heart of the book is a set of 48 multi-part `positive questions', around such subject areas as "Aligning Purpose and Goals" and "Promoting Leadership". You could use any question to interview team members individually, have the team explore a question as a group, or have team members pair up and interview each other.Having so many questions to choose from could save you a lot of time, as you can just select (and adapt, if necessary) the questions relevant to the aspects of your team's performance that you want to develop.By the time you have read or tried out a few of the questions, you would find it easy to create more of your own. For example, questions 7-10 are around balancing the various preference pairs in the Myers-Briggs model. You could easily develop similar questions around whatever model (e.g. Belbin team roles) your team is familiar with.The other sections of the book cover ten ways you could use the questions, for applications ranging from "Selecting Team Members" to "Energizing Team Meetings", plus a step-by-step guide for conducting a self-managed appreciative inquiry, and a template for building your own appreciative interview guide.What I'd like to see in the next edition: 1) perhaps a little more practical advice on how to get the process going if you're starting with a very cynical or demoralised team, and 2) an index.Overall, this is a very handy book for team leaders who want to create a more positive and productive climate in their teams.

Wish there were more questions, but I nevertheless refer to this every time I am setting up a facilitated workshop. It has helped a lot.

This was an excellent book! Very easy to read, action oriented, and very useful.

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