Tweets of the Week 22 October, 2021

The Horizons team features many influential Twitter users. This curates a wealth of insights, knowledge, and information about transformation in health and care from other thought leaders across the world. (Tip: to read an article or watch a video mentioned in a tweet, click on the blue text. To view the original tweet, click on the image).  

The School for Change Agents

The School for Change Agents starts again on 15 November. Join thousands of others in building your own power to make positive change happen. It's free, virtual & open to all, not just those in health & care. It's lifechanging for many & gets rave reviews. Click here for more information and to sign up!

Listen to Mo on what you can learn in School.

Sign up now and join Mo and so many others to help create positive change in the world!

"Stories are what connect us to others, bring us together. Stories can compel us to take positive action." - @KathrynPerera & @LeighAKendall.

Find out about how #S4CA explores the power of storytelling & public narrative to make a positive difference. Click here for the blog.

Spread and Adoption

Diane will be hosting a virtual session on 11 November, 4pm to 5pm: 'Systems convening: its role in the spread of innovation and improvement' relating to 'Leading the Spread and Adoption of Innovation and Improvement: A Practical Guide'. More information and to register, click here.

Read Diane's latest blog 'How Enabling Leadership Can Help Spread &Adoption of Innovation and Improvement' here.

Work with the Team!

Are you a clinician working in the NHS or care sector? Would you like to develop your skills in quality improvement, transformation & large-scale change? You could be an NHS Horizons clinical associate!

Click here for more information and to apply. It's the last chance to apply, closes 24 October!

Virtual Collaborate

We’ve come across some useful tips with @Outlook that we like to share across @HorizonsNHS - especially when they save us time and make virtual work so much better. We're excited to share them with you too! Here we share how to change the default settings for text size on emails.

Wellbeing 

We already knew empathy is an important leadership competency, but new research takes this further. Empathy promotes innovation, inclusion, collaboration, engagement & reduces work/home tension. Click here for more information. Graphic by @ImpactWales.

There's often a tension between productivity (working as hard as possible to deliver with the existing systems) & creativity (finding new, better ways to work). We have to value creativity & make the time/space for people to share, learn & experiment together in order to progress. Click here to find our more.

When we're in a state of "flow" we can do our very best work. We could all do with spending more time there as it gives us space for breakthrough thinking & better outcomes. Here's a sketchnote & Twitter thread on how to get there. Thank you @drgurner

This is a fantastic thread on psychological safety posted by @purdy_eve who is a Canadian emergency doctor based in Australia. It's full of practical insights & ideas on how we can make things better & safer for our teams & for the people who use our services. Thank you @AmyCEdmondson.

And here is @purdy_eve's infographic on better team performance in emergency medicine, based on principles of psychological safety. The principles are relevant to teams in any clinical setting & beyond.

As we all were, Helen was shocked to hear of the murder of MP David Amess, the second Member of the UK Parliament to be murdered in the past five years, following Jo Cox. She thought this graphic by @sherrillknezel was apt.

Improvement 

This way of thinking should underpin all our improvement work. We start by asking great questions, & finding out. We test & try out solutions in a spirit of experimentation & learning & we use data to reflect on our changes, ready for the next cycle. Great graphic by @grantdraws

New research shows 5 things high-performing teams do differently: 1) Talk on the phone to each other 2) Have more productive meetings 3) Invest time in bonding over non-work topics 4) Show appreciation to each other 5) Behave authentically. For more insight on this, click here.

Originally, digital transformation was about creating digital/tech solutions. Increasingly, it's come to mean working in more agile/aligned ways. How digital transformation, organisational dysfunctions & psychological safety are connected. For more insight, click here. 

Thinking about restructuring? Here are "17 types of organisational design & structures" including "contemporary organisational design" (principles in the enclosed list). Article includes a link to a comprehensive organisational design guide. Click here for the article.  

Helen often uses the @SessionLab library as it has so many really good, free facilitation techniques. Here's what they call "29 techniques for effective conflict management (that actually work!)". They're divided by the 8 steps of a conflict management process. For more information click here.