Let learning ripple through your organisation

Speaker: Mary Dees

Let learning ripple through your organisation

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Starting the Workshop

Opening Excersise

After introductions and an initial presentation on Every Child Matters, the delegates take part in a short ice breaker excercise.

“People put clearly in roles and given good information – great software ”

Interactive Main Menu

The Main Menu

“The most advanced computer led training course I have attended”

Main Menu

Shows a virtual community with problems such as teenage pregnancies, poor housing, unemployment, poor health and drug problems.

The buildings represent the teams which work together in partnership to improve the lives of young people and the community in which they live.

“An excellent way of exploring issues particularly the

cross – cutting elements & how they impact across blocks”

Looking at the issues

Report Screen

Teams are Town Hall, Education, learning and Skills, PCT, Third Sector, Housing, Emergency services and Development Partnership.

Each team is given a mission statement outlining their objectives.

They are presented with updated reports to help them make decisions.

Decisions, decisions, decisions

Investment

Having looked at their reports and developed a strategy the teams can invest their budgets.

Can they balance their budget? Negotiate with other teams and choose win win wins to create a sustainable community?

Advance the Round, see the Changes

Update Round

After all the budget decisions have been made the round is updated.

Improvements made to the community are shown.

The Score

The Score

The score shows how the teams have performed jointly in the areas of Social, environmental ,economic and also resource use.

Red = 0 – 3Amber = 3 – 7Green = 7 – 10

Public Opinion is also scored.

3 rounds remain to deal with problems

“Time out to engage in an exercise that

demonstrated impact”

Group Discussion

Final Exercise

Consider: Key Actions, Barriers, and Solutions.

Break into 4 Groups

The Real World

Delegates reflect on the learning and discuss how this can be implemented in the real world.

What learning message delegates said they would take away:

Working on my skills of negotiation

Think outside the box –look at

wider issues

Increase awareness on the ground as to how

inextricably linked all the issues are Implement

new ways to improve

collaborative working with

partners

Feedback

“How it captures the realness of complexities

around joint commissioning ”

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