Ray East Part 2: Appreciative Inquiry for Unified Powerful Conversations

"Appreciative inquiry is about creating a positive and preferred vision of the future." —  Ray EastIn this episode, Nozomi and Ray discuss:What appreciative inquiry is.Asking the right questions for powerful conversation. Changing how you look at solving problems. Each meeting as an individual moment in time, space, and presence.  Key Takeaways:By the act of positively inquiring, you change the company, team, and individual.It is less important to problem solve than it is to ask the positive questions to bring your people and system to life and the problems will be solved. You need everyone’s perspective to find an innovative solution if you are looking to become the best of the best. Connecting your team to the purpose will allow them to do and be better, even in hard or dark times. "When you create solutions in silos you can only do small-scale change which means it makes it very slow. With appreciative inquiry, you can make that big change very quickly." —  Nozomi Morgan "Continuous improvement is not about pushing and forcing, it's always about how we can just be our better best." —  Nozomi Morgan  About Ray East: Ray East is an Executive Coach and Consultant with Michiki Morgan Worldwide. He is an expert in empowering leaders and teams to experience elevated levels of purpose, engagement, and human connection at work. He has helped hundreds of organizations generate exponential improvements in workforce retention, engagement, collaboration, and innovation. With over 20 years of experience as a global executive coach, Ray’s style is insightful, encouraging, and practical. His ideation sessions with executives have generated innovations and additional revenues at Fortune-500 companies worth millions of dollars per year. He specializes in drawing out the brilliance of people at every level of the organization. Ray is a former Management Associate at MetLife, and international corporate attorney at White & Case LLP. He also is the former Director of Student Life at The King’s College in New York City and served on the Board of Directors of The CEO Network. He is the author of the book: “Discovering Why People Follow a Leader [The Life Of Manny].” References: Article: The essentials of appreciative inquiry: A roadmap for creating positive futures by Bernard J. Mohr and Jane Magruder Watkins https://www.academia.edu/3369203/The_essentials_of_appreciative_inquiry_A_roadmap_for_creating_positive_futures Connect with Ray East:Website: https://www.michikimorgan.com/mmww-team/ray-east/Book: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Manny-Discovering-People-Follow/dp/0982355548YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvwKyxBTJFQIiXx3e-TMT0QLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayeast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/rayeasttalk Connect with Nozomi Morgan:Website: https://www.michikimorgan.com/    Book: In the worksEmail: team@michikimorgan.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/nozomimorgan   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NozomiMorganLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nozomimorgan/Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/nozomimorgan/ Show notes by Podcastologist: Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.