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If I was answering the questions I ask of people in this series, Vicky would absolutely feature as one of the big influencers in my career. Vicky taught me a lot - not least that you can be a senior leader and be female, authentic, caring and admit when shit’s happening and you’re struggling to know what to do about it. Wow. That had such an impact. Click on the pic to read more…..
In my ongoing mission to understand what makes ordinary people great at making change happen, I’m talking to John Herring. John works at the cutting edge of change in the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care system. By his own admission, he can’t work in the system without tinkering with it and his scientific mind means he’s always focused on asking the “why” and “what if” questions. Click on the pic to read more….
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.
Join me in the second of my blog series focusing on What makes ordinary people great at making change happen? This week, I’m featuring Cat Duncan-Rees. She’s a rebel, a comrade, a crackerjack facilitator and a thoroughly nice person. I’m on a mission to understand more about what makes ordinary people great at making change happen so we can all learn how best to build change capacity for the future.
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.
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. Click the pic to read on >
