In this final step, the implementation of your plan, your dream will require lots of preparation and planning. You need to keep the Dream (from your third step) front and center. With all the different people with their various roles/functions, everyone needs to be working to manifest the dream. So, when the Dream is the focal point for everyone, all the changes which are happening in all the different departments will all work collaboratively to birth your Dream.

In the end, as in the beginning and within each step of this model, the best successes come when it evolves out of all the participants’ experiences and contributions. Then everyone can own the new Dream together.

The Appreciative Inquiry model can be used repeatedly for continuous, ongoing improvement. Who does not appreciate having positive outcomes for positive thinking recognized and validated? It purely feels good. What a great concept and motivator that can be!