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Secret Musings of a Change Agent 5 - John Herring

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….

Secret Musings of a Change Agent 4 - Carol "Change" Kavanagh

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.

Secret Musings of a Change Agent 3 - Cat Duncan Rees

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.

Secret Musings of a Change Agent - It's all about relationships

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…

A Strengths Based Approach - so much more than training staff

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.

Secret Musings of a Change Agent

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 >