{"id":1907,"date":"2019-04-22T07:14:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T11:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2019-04-18T21:23:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T01:23:19","slug":"weve-reached-the-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2019\/04\/22\/weve-reached-the-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ve Reached the Summit!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A closer look at the Appreciative Inquiry Summit hosted by the Class of 2019<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This post was written by Tor Dworshak, Maura Kalil, Billy Rivellini, and Alexa Steiner of the Class of 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, April 16th saw the culmination of significant learning and hard work in our Driving Sustainable Change class with Professor Ante Glavas. The Class of 2019 hosted an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Summit on the topic of creating high quality post-Sustainable Innovation MBA experiences for alumni of the program. Participants included the current cohort, numerous alumni, and faculty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Planned and executed by our cohort, the summit was a lesson in leadership, facilitation, event management, and the AI model. AI is a stakeholder engagement model to facilitate strengths based understanding of change management opportunities that exist in an organization. Each of the learning teams were given one of ten tasks to execute that day, and if we may say so ourselves, our classmates crushed it! As we will become alumni of the program in the coming months, the topic of the day was extremely relevant and important to all of us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nday began with an explanation of the \u201cchaordic\u201d space we were all about to\noccupy. What is \u201cchaordic\u201d? It is the combination of chaos and order; a space\nthat allows for creativity and experimentation within the boundaries of some\nstructure. With an emphasis on strengths and opportunity, the AI summit was\norganized into four phases, each of which consisted of different\nthought-provoking questions, innovative challenges, and creative activities.\nThe Discovery phase of AI is about appreciating and focuses on the best of what\nis. The Dream phase is about envisioning, with an emphasis on results and\nimpact. The Design phase is about co-creation and co-construction. Finally, the\nDestiny phase is about sustaining, and how to empower, learn and improvise.\nEach team played their part, fulfilled their role, and contributed to the\noverall positive experience that day. We received incredible feedback about the\npositive and productive nature of the conversations. The day also gave the\ncurrent cohort and alumni a chance to really work together, getting especially\ncreative with the prototyping of ideas in the afternoon\u2019s Design phase. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was really cool to see how the students took what Ante had taught them and within a few short weeks, were running an appreciative inquiry summit themselves\u201d, said Erik Monsen, professor in The Sustainable Innovation MBA program. \u201cThey demonstrated how clear their learning had been because they were able to teach the rest of us and guide us through the AI process that day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI was delighted by the creativity and the power to generate ideas demonstrated by everybody in the room during all of the phases,\u201d said Joe Fusco, Director of The Sustainable Innovation MBA program. \u201cThe format of the summit and the AI process really highlighted the potential in the program’s existing strengths.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sustainable Innovation MBA network is truly special. With a focus on cohesion and collaboration, there isn\u2019t much room for competition, though there was definitely some friendly competition during the summit\u2019s Design phase. There was so much creativity and warmth in the Keller room that day and we, the Class of 2019, are grateful to Ante for giving us the opportunity to put our learnings into practice and lead this summit. With only a few weeks of classes left, the Class of 2019 has also reached the summit of our year in the program. So with that, we want to thank everyone who participated this year and wish the best of luck to the class of 2020 in their future summit planning! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A closer look at the Appreciative Inquiry Summit hosted by the Class of 2019 This post was written by Tor Dworshak, Maura Kalil, Billy Rivellini, and Alexa Steiner of the Class of 2019 Tuesday, April 16th saw the culmination of significant learning and hard work in our Driving Sustainable Change class with Professor Ante Glavas. … <\/p>\n

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