All tagged strengths based
This week I’m thrilled that Linda Hutchinson of LHAlliances has agreed to guest blog for the penultimate of this mini series. Linda is the leading expert on alliance contracts in public sector in the UK. Linda is a highly experienced senior professional with twenty five years’ experience in frontline health services. She has a strong track record of innovation and delivery of major change programmes in university, health, government and regulatory sectors. Here Linda writes about the role that Alliance contracting could play in helping to alleviate workforce pressures in Adults Social Care in the longer term.
The case for adopting a strengths based approach to delivering public services is compelling. Shifting from a deficit approach of what’s wrong to a compassionate, enabling approach that starts with what matters improves lives and increases our independence. It’s no wonder that public services are increasingly looking to adopt a strengths based approach as not only does it improve outcomes, it reduces demand for costly public services which after more than a decade of austerity feels like a no brainer. Click the pic to read more…….
Just as important as recruiting the right people into Adults Social Care - if not, even more so, is how you keep hold of them once they are working for you. I’ve spent a lot of time working alongside social care services who experience high turnover and there are common reasons that are nearly always at play. Get these things right for the people who work for you and you’ll be rewarded with loyal, committed high performing staff who go the extra mile because they know they’re making a difference. Click the pic to read more
Sheni Ravji-Smith has a aura about her. It’s hard to pin down and describe but she’s one of those people who never fails to top up your energy levels. She speaks with care and compassion whilst at the same time continually challenging and asking the why questions that help us all to move our thinking forward. So what can we learn from Sheni that will help us to think differently about how we build change capacity within our organisations? Click the pic 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……
Cordelle Ofori oozes credibility. She’s a woman driven by a burning passion to improve peoples’ lives and address health inequalities. Cordelle is one of those people that other people trust. When she speaks, people listen. And her team adores her. I was really keen to know more about Cordelle’s story and what it is about her that gives her such credibility. click on the pic to read more ……
In this risk averse world that we live in where we seek control and fear things going wrong, our approach to risk management can be a really critical enabler to a strengths based approach. If you are an employee in an organisation, asking you to take this approach without being clear on how we manage risk will leave you feeling vulnerable and psychologically unsafe. Which in effect, means you’re less likely to make the shift……. 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.
