The document summarizes key points from the 2011 Public Service Improvement Conference in Scotland. It discusses the need for a common language and practice of improvement to help deliver outcomes in complex settings and empower communities and staff. It also calls for an affirmative culture where people openly praise and constructively challenge each other. The challenges mentioned are to ensure improvement sponsors innovation, admits mistakes, and creates the right environment of trust and risk while focusing on assets and outcomes.
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(Home & Place) Based on the Foyer Federation's initiative of Open Talent this workshop presentation details how to promote young people's goals and enable them to develop the skills, resources and opportunities they need to achieve them. The Open Talent approach looks not at just supporting young people in regards to what the don't have but rather inspiring them to be the best person they can be.
This presentation was given at the End Youth Homelessness Conference 2011 and facilitated by Colin Falconer, Director of Innovation at the Foyer Federation UK.
To learn more about the Foyer Federation and Open Talent visit www.foyer.net.
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Founder and CEO of Novida Strategic Management Services in Turkey and Novida Investment & Consulting in Montenegro has delivered a speech for Women Leaders Event organized by GCC in Turkey on April 2013. The 4E's of Leadership (Engagement, Eco-system, Enablers and Economical Dimension) have been put into perspective.
(Home & Place) Based on the Foyer Federation's initiative of Open Talent this workshop presentation details how to promote young people's goals and enable them to develop the skills, resources and opportunities they need to achieve them. The Open Talent approach looks not at just supporting young people in regards to what the don't have but rather inspiring them to be the best person they can be.
This presentation was given at the End Youth Homelessness Conference 2011 and facilitated by Colin Falconer, Director of Innovation at the Foyer Federation UK.
To learn more about the Foyer Federation and Open Talent visit www.foyer.net.
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- Identify how and why diversity may impact on change and PM3 outcome
- Explore tools and techniques to help you be smarter in the use of diversity to achieve balanced teams and improved outcomes.
The presentation focussed on reviewing your own experiences in teams and organisations, assessing strengths and gaps.
Discussions helped delegates to understand where they needed to improve awareness, pay attention or plan changes.
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A presentation by the APM Women in Project Management (WiPM) Specific Interest Group (SIG) and Sobitha Sashikumar for the APM South Wales & West of England branch on 3rd July 2014 at Atkins/Faithful+Gould in Bristol.
In this interactive session, Sobitha Sashikumar brought a wealth of knowledge and appreciation on the subject of change and diversity. She explored this subject, drawing on her experience of living and working in teams and organisations across three continents, assisting delegates to enhance their effectiveness in managing change and diversity.
A joint event between South Wales & West of England branch and Women in Project Management (WiPM) SIG, this served as an introduction for the branch membership to the WiPM SIG; its activities, volunteering opportunities and the 21st anniversary celebrations, as well as diversity initiatives. The WiPM chair Teri Okoro, introduced this session.
This session helped delegates to:
- Understand the positive benefits of diversity
- Identify how and why diversity may impact on change and PM3 outcome
- Explore tools and techniques to help you be smarter in the use of diversity to achieve balanced teams and improved outcomes.
The presentation focussed on reviewing your own experiences in teams and organisations, assessing strengths and gaps.
Discussions helped delegates to understand where they needed to improve awareness, pay attention or plan changes.
The 8th Dec event focussed on Wellcome Trust as a co-consulting case study and then Explored operating model design. We had some excellent conversations and practiced the application of operating model design to 2 different organisations.
Leaderonomics is a small organisation with big dream and ambitions. Although we may have only about 100 employees today, we are a small employer with a BIG heart and BIG goals and dream. REad on what we do with our employees to engage, excite and ensure they are committed to the cause.
Service design: why haven't we changed the world yet?ThePublicOffice
We gave this 90 minute paper at the fabulous Service Design in Government 2016 conference, on March 9th 2016. By sharing the experiences we have had leading a very broad and deep innovation programme in Essex, we aim to shine a spotlight on what else needs to be built around service design, in order to create the sustained, radical shifts we want to see on the ground.
Purpose-driven Business: Leading from Purpose & Core Valuesfmarinescu
A talk about one entrepreneurs rediscovery of his successful business as a social/purpose-driven business, how to lead a company from purpose & core values, and how business can be about making the world better. Lots of domain examples.
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Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
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4. The Danger of Here-and-Now
• A common language and practice of
improvement because
- it works
- to help us deliver outcomes in complex
settings
- to empower our communities & our staff.
5. An Affirmative Culture
• …in which people offer constructive praise and
challenge proportionately & openly
• …as a component of emotional intelligence – they
are able to overcome personal reticence and
hierarchical barriers to this
• …it is the done thing to be ambitious and to
celebrate the areas where we plan to improve: i.e.
we don’t sound like press releases
6. The Challenges
• Improvement in Scotland cannot become a
new orthodoxy: it has to sponsor innovation
and creativity.
• And make us more ready to admit mistakes.
• Improvement and Assets: is more less? How
do we create the right environment on trust
and risk?
7. Next?
• Derek and Jason will write to you…
• Big learning points for you?
• How best to follow up?
• How you’d like to be involved?
• Outcomes and an asset-based approach imply
a different kind of professionalism in Scotland
– empowering, cross-cutting and skilled. The
challenge is for us.
