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Imagine a spec for the perfect change agent…….I’m having some fun this week. I’m taking the learning, insights and inspiration from all my Secret Musings of a Change Agent blogs to create just that. But there’s a serious message. We have to fundamentally rethink how we attract, recruit, nurture and develop people who are great at making change happen if we want to build change capacity for the future. Click the pic to read more…….
Mum at 15, Assistant Director of Social Care in her mid 30s and Deputy Chief Officer of a Clinical Commissioning Group by her mid 40s. Claudette Elliott has achieved so much in her life and yet is humble, kind and compassionate. She’s a passionate advocate for mental health and well-being and isn’t afraid to talk about her own experiences. Another great change agent who shows the world that authentic, compassionate leadership is what delivers great results. Click on the picture to read more…….
Anyone who knows me knows that one of the things I care very deeply about is diversity. I can’t tell you how privileged I feel to be able to dive into the arena of neurodiversity in leadership this week. Shirley Woods-Gallagher is a brilliantly intelligent, visionary leader and she’s very recently had her identify confirmed as autistic. Shirley has taken the brave step to talk about this publicly and she’s determined she’s going to give everything she’s got to make change happen. Click the pic to read more……
Claire is unassuming, mild mannered and humble. But mistake that for a lack of passion at your peril. She is fierce, courageous and determined to change things so that services for people in Greater Manchester improve. She’s a real example of great introverted, non-egocentric leadership. Find out more about what makes Claire so successful at making change happen by clicking on the pic…
Carol “change” Kavanagh embodies compassionate, kind leadership and she also happens to be formidable when it comes to making change happen. I was proper chuffed when Carol agreed to feature in my blog series to help us all understand what makes ordinary people great at making change happen and what we learn from that for building change capacity for the future. Click the pic to read more.
Commissioning is an important enabler to a strengths based approach. Here are some small steps commissioners can take to make a big difference.
What makes ordinary people great at making change happen? What characteristics do they share? What path have they followed? What’s their attitude to failure? And what advice would they give to others? I’m on a mission to understand more. Join me as I delve deeper in my new blog series to help us all understand how we build change capacity for the future. In this post, I’m talking to Vicky Charles from Greater Manchester. Click on the pic to read more…
Moving to a strengths based approach is a no-brainer for stretched public services. It delivers better outcomes and reduces demand. Training staff on its own is not enough. In this blog I share the themes and challenges emerging from working with 100s of staff to enable them to adopt strengths based approaches. Their stories provide powerful evidence that we need strengths based system leadership driving strengths based culture. Click on the pic to read on.
