About the book…

Today, we have the benefit of a broad set of research only available in the last 25 – 30 years. This research comes from the fields of positive psychology, neuroscience, neuroleadership, along with the work from Gallup on strengths and employee engagement and more. The research has demonstrated that peak performance is only possible when people and organizations are in a positive state. The roots of our traditional leadership approach and HR practices were established in the early industrial era. They were built on compliance and control. The “great resignation” is a demonstration that the world is calling for a change. It has become increasing clear that the world of work needs to be transformed. What is needed is to create organizations where people can fearlessly collaborate, innovate and team with other talented people. This research coupled with the experiences of visionary leaders has shown us the path to bring this about. We need to unleash the talents of our people as opposed to controlling them. Organizations that create this type of environment will be magnets for top talent and will be able to retain this talent, leading to extraordinary organizational performance and success.

Positive Change

Using a specialized approach to achieving important change objectives based on appreciative inquiry.

Examples of achieving meaningful, sustainable change such as the following:

• Increased Organizational Performance
• Strategy redirection
• Strategy implementation
• Increased customer service
• Increased effectiveness of your meetings
• Implementation of Mergers or Acquisitions

What change do you need to achieve that will make a difference in the performance of your organization?

Positive Leadership

Positive Leadership Development – leadership teams and individuals.
Define organizational (team) positive leadership commitment and individual positive leadership definition.

Executive coaching to support the journey of visionary leaders desiring to be transformational leaders to create environments where employee thrive and organizational results soar.

Positive Intelligence Coaching – mental fitness coaching to strengthen the mental shift from your survival brain to your positive brain where peak performance is possible.

Positive Culture

Intentionally design your most desired culture.

Build a values driven culture including how to bring the values to life.

Redesign HR practices and processes to better support your desired leadership approach and culture.

About the Author

Tenny Poole is a principal of Corporation for Positive Change as well as founder and principal of the West Coast Center for Positive Change. Tenny is a master trainer and facilitator using Appreciative Inquiry to achieve positive change. She also consults with organizations to develop positive organizational culture and transformational leadership. She is an ICF certified executive coach and she is a certified positive intelligence mental fitness coach.

Tenny spent 30 years pursuing her passion for delivering top quality human resources services. During Tenny’s 10 years as Vice President of HR for Experian Americas Credit business she used appreciative inquiry to further the performance of technical, software development, purchasing and HR functions among others. During her tenure at Experian, she was instrumental in the “Transformation of Human Resources” project that redesigned the HR function to deliver strategically focused HR services. Also, while at Experian, Tenny was responsible for the HR work to open Experian’s off-shoring center in Santiago, Chile and provided the initial HR support for Experian’s successful business expansion into Latin America and Canada.

Tenny was selected the 2000 Human Resources Executive of the Year by the Orange County Affiliate of the National Human Resources Association. This recognition was for her work in accelerating culture change, developing her HR team, and implementing new human resources strategies at Experian.

Tenny’s work focuses on developing organizations where employees excel thus leading to superior organizational performance.

Coaching

Executive coaching to support the journey of visionary leaders desiring to be transformational leaders to create environments where employee thrive and organizational results soar.

Positive Intelligence Coaching – mental fitness coaching to strengthen the mental shift from your survival brain to your positive brain where peak performance is possible.

Consulting

Using a specialized approach to achieving important change objectives based on appreciative inquiry. Each change project is customized to your specific organization and desired change objectives.

Examples of achieving meaningful, sustainable change such as the following:

• Increased Organizational Performance
• Strategy redirection
• Strategy implementation
• Increased customer service
• Increased effectiveness of your meetings
• Implementation of Mergers or Acquisitions
• Intentionally design your most desired culture
• Build a values driven culture including how to bring the values to life
• Redesign HR practices and processes to better support your desired leadership approach and culture.

What change do you need to achieve that will make a difference in the performance of your organization?

Training

• Pivot to Positive Leadership – the Road to High Performance.
  Individual and/or team training in positive leadership.
• Power of Appreciative Inquiry – Train individual how to facilitate positive change projects using appreciative inquiry.
• Applications of Appreciative Inquiry – Train experienced positive change practitioners on deeper insights of how to apply Appreciative Inquiry.
• Coaching for Positive Change: An Appreciative Approach – Train coaches how to use a positive focus to coaching using an appreciative approach.