#💡 #🟠 # appreciative-depreciative dimension ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Oct 02, 2021</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Nov 05, 2022</small> 🏷️[[Appreciative Inquiry]] - Appreciative conversations energize and inspire positive action. - Depreciative conversations are exhausting and smother creativity, thereby reducing productivity and engagement. - appreciative = adding value - sharing ideas, augmenting contributions of others, naming important factors, advocating for possible actions, acknowledging contributions of others, suggesting possibilities, pointing out opportunities, responding to questions with new perspectives, contributing to planning - depreciative = devaluing - belittling ideas of others, criticizing contributions of others, advocating for your own ideas without listening to others, pointing out why things won't work, dominating interactions, interrupting or cutting others off, ignoring contributions , complaining ## Sources [[Conversations Worth Having - Stavros & Torres 2018]]