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Location		Washington, DC
Target Audience		This one-day program is for leaders at all levels who want to rediscover and reconnect with their strengths and help their team members do the same. You will leave with an energizing planning tool and a process for using your strengths and engaging the strengths of others  everyday!
Workshop Leaders		Ada Jo Mann
Dates		September 23, 2009
Workshop Hours
Cost		$395
Included
Prerequisites		None
Description		A simple, yet profound and results-focused planning tool designed to unleash the best of what each of us already knows to create rapid, positive change and inspired action forindividuals and teams from the board room to the village council. A four-step  planning process that draws on the findings and principles of Appreciative Inquiry, Appreciative Intelligence, Positive Psychology and the Strengths Movement. Clarify what it is you want to work on together. Then identify relevant skills and successful experiences you can build on as you move forward. Focus on your collective strengths as a starting point for envisioning the impact and “Positive Potential” you want to achieve. Consider all possible innovations, new structures, policies, attitudes, etc. you will need to create or change.  Identify key players to enlist and influence. Take action! Create your joint “TO DO” list for each innovation, new structure, policy, action, etc
Workshop Goals
Presenters Bios		Ada Jo Mann, a partner in Innovation Partners International, has 35 years of experience collaborating with clients on strength-based approaches to strategic planning; organization design; whole system change; program development and evaluation; inter-organizational partnerships; team building, and training.   She has directed or participated in assignments in over 50 African, Asian, Caribbean, Central and South American and European countries. Using practical, strength-based and participatory management approaches she has advised and trained over 1000 leaders.  Through her work both in the US and abroad   Ada Jo has increased the managerial capacities of a broad range of institutions including government agencies, bilateral and multilateral development organizations, non-profits and community groups.  She is a pioneer in the field of Appreciative Inquiry in the international development and social change arena and Founder and former Managing Co-Owner of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, LLC.  For seven years she was Director of a multi-million dollar grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve the organizational capacity of non-governmental organizations in all regions of the world.  She is a co-author of Positive Family Dynamics: Appreciative Inquiry Questions to Bring Out the Best in Families. Current and past clients include: Academy for Educational Development, ADRA, Arlington County, Virginia HR Department, CARE, Chemonics, John Snow International, Lutheran World Relief, Neighborhood Centers, Inc., Pact Inc., Save the Children, Social Impact, Youth Alternatives Ingraham, US Agency for International Development, US Geological Survey, US Peace Corps, and World Vision.
Media Coverage		New strengths-based planning process to be unveiled at workshop - LEAD process a simplified tool to unleash strengths and create positive change
Sponsoring Organizations		Innovation Partners International

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