All in Making change happen
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
Last week, I explored how to attract the right people to work for you and gave you some practical tips and techniques to increase your chances of success. Attracting the right people is only the first part of securing quality employees. How you respond to their interest is crucial. It’s always crucial and in current times when competition for great applicants is rife it’s even more crucial. Click on the pic to read more……..
Adults Social Care needs more staff. Demand is rising and the social care sector is creaking but we don’t want to attract just anybody. Attracting the right people with the right values and attitudes is essential to success. In this weeks blog, I tell you how to up your chances of attracting the right people to work for you. Click the pic to read more…….
It’s time to change the story when it comes to social care. I’m fed up of all the negative coverage of social care. Social care is amazing!! It’s a sector full of brilliant, warm, kind, caring people who make a difference every day. If we’re serious about attracting more people to work in the sector, we have to start helping people to understand what social care really is, the opportunities available and the huge pull of enabling people to live their best lives. Click the pic to read more……..
I’m excited this week to introduce my new blog mini-series, a collaboration with Andrew Burridge, NWADASS, where I’m going to be examining why there are such serious workforce pressures in social care and providing some practical advice and solutions for changes we can make right now, as well as in the longer term, to recruit and retain more of the right people to work in social care. Click to pic to read more…….
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…….
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……
