leading large scale change helen bevan
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This is a version of the slides that Helen Bevan used in her presentation on “Leading Large Scale Change” at NHS Expo on Tuesday 4th March 2014TRANSCRIPT
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Leading large scale changeHelen Bevan
@HelenBevan4th March 2014
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• What is happening in the wider world of transformation and change?
• Where are the big opportunities for innovation and improvement?
• The Horizons group: a new initiative from NHS Improving Quality• Sharing on a massive scale• NHS Change Day and The School for Health and Care Radicals • How we work
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For today
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1. Change is happening at a faster rate and is becoming more disruptive
2. New digital tools enable us to be in constant, direct contact with nearly everyone in the developed world at little cost or effort
3. Hierarchical management styles are diminishing in the face of the inherent complexity and scale of the current work environment
4. Complex work is getting more complex and that makes it difficult to replicate and copy; creative work is changing more quickly both require more tacit knowledge which is best developed through conversation and social relationships
rather than guidelines and best practice databases
5. Creative processes are moving to the edges of our organisations
Many of the ways we go about change were designed in a different mindset for a different set of circumstances
5 things that are happening in the world of change:
Sources: Change Agents Worldwide, Harold Jarche, Steven Verjans
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In the near future, the edges will be where almost all high-value work will be done in organizations……. Organizational
development and change management need to move to the edges, and quickly.
Harold Jarche (2014)
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Tensions that change agents must live with Dominantapproach
Emerging direction
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is the new normal!
“By questioning existing ideas, by opening new fields for action, change agents actually help organisations
survive and adapt to the 21st Century.”Céline Schillinger
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@rebelsatwork rebelsatwork.com
Across the world, the change agent movement is exploding!
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A big challenge for innovation/improvement teams
Tacit knowledge is where the action is….•It’s the people with tacit knowledge who deliver the results•Tacit knowledge is critical for large scale change
But
The only way tacit knowledge can be broadly shared…
…is to turn it into explicit knowledge
VERY difficult
Few organisations succeedGray D (2012) The Connected Company
Source: Harold Jarche
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“Tacit knowledge is best developed through conversations and social
relationships”Harold Jarche
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What are the biggest opportunities for change agents?
• As bridge builders between disconnected groups
• As curators and sharers of knowledge
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The Network Secrets of Great Change AgentsJulie Battilana &Tiziana Casciaro
1. As a change agent, my centrality in the informal network is more important than my position in the formal hierarchy
2. If you want to create small scale change, work through a cohesive network
If you want to create big change, create
bridge networks between disconnected groups
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Curation:
Source: DaVinci Institute
From
disruptivechaos
To
creative clusters
Finding things out and determining what’s valid from what’s just noise………It’s about identifying networks and communities and seeing where the
nodes and amplifiers sit……………..It’s about quality and coherence, not volume and mass
Julian Stodd
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Getting information off the internet is like
taking a drink from a fire hydrantMitchell Kapor
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Potential on a massive scaleFinding things out and keeping up to date•“pulling” information, but also having it “pushed” to us by trusted sources
Making sense and meaning of information•Reflecting and putting into practice what we have learned•Plugging information into our own mental models and turning it into knowledge
Connecting and collaborating•Sharing complex knowledge with our own work teams•Testing new ideas with our own networks•Increasing connections through social networks.
Source: Harold Jarche
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Role of the Horizons GroupTo stimulate new and ‘disruptive’ approaches in support of healthcare transformation, operating at the edge of current thinking and practice:•skip a generation of thinking about how to create large scale change •skip a generation in who we largely connect with: emerging leaders, clinical trainees, students•Skip a generation of methods for change: open innovation, social media, crowdsourcing, hackathons
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Horizons Group: what we do• Connections and collaboration• Thought leadership in large scale change
Tacit and explicit knowledge Webinars, publications, films, social media connections Virtual summit
Mobilising for improvement - NHS Change Day The School for Health and Care Radicals - supporting the next
generation of change agents
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Supporting NHS Improving Quality programmes, helping to keep NHS IQ thinking and practice fresh, relevant and in line with the leading edge
Inclusion and diversity: key principles for transformational change
Building the movement for radically different thinking and action (“actionable knowledge”) in health and care that makes a difference
Horizons Group: what we do
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“The most basic not-so-secret formula for building an innovation culture is pretty simple - embrace diversity and start to attract, retain and promote a diverse workforce that looks differently, works differently, dress differently, speaks differently and is inclusive of the full spectrum of human sexual orientation and gender identities. Do this before you start hiring consultants and rethinking your innovation process; there is no process that works without true diversity.”
Idris Moore
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Diversity is critical to innovation and change
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Case study: NHS Change Day
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Its started with a tweet!
Young clinical leaders & improvement leaders started to talk about how they could improve care
Damian RolandStuart Sutton Helen Bevan
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NHS Change Day
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• More than 5 million twitter impressions a day• 4,000 video views a month across YouTube, Vimeo, Podbean
and iTunes • Over 2,500 active audience reach a week on Facebook• Daily Blipfoto photo journal getting 7,500 views a week• Active picture showcases on Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr• New 'how to' films uploaded onto YouTube...28
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We work with multiple social media platforms
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Join the conversation on:
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The School for Health and Care Radicals
Promoted through social mediaMore than 1,300 enrollees from 26 countries90 volunteer mentorsAverage weekly twitter reach 2.6 millionOver 10,000 shares of the slides on SlideShareOver 1,800 shares of the study guides on SlideShareMore than 5,000 tweets using #SCHRchatStorify has been viewed nearly 1,000 times
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Feedback
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Permissionlessinnovation!
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5 things we learnt from the experience of The School for Health and Care Radicals
1. There is a massive untapped reservoir of energy and talent out there and the potential is outstanding
2. The core audience is different to what we anticipated
3. The most important need is for connection and community
4. How to build the relationship between tacit and explicit knowledge
5. All teach, all learn
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The Horizons Group• Working out loud• Collaborating on a massive scale• Embracing diversity
• Operating at the edge of knowledge and practice• Beyond hierarchy
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over; on the edge you find things you can’t see from the centre
Kurt VonnegutImage and quote from Harold Jarche
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ReferencesBevan H, Plsek P, Winstanley (2011) Leading Large Scale Change - Part 1, A Practical Guide
Bevan H (2011) Leading Large Scale Change - Part 2, The Postscript
Change Agents Worldwide (2013) Moving forward with social collaboration SlideShare
Fuda P (2012) 15 qualities of a transformational change agent
Gray D (2012) The Connected Company
Jarche, H (2013) Rebels on the edges
Jarche H (2014) Moving to the edges
Moore I (2013) Diversity is the short cut to building an innovation culture
Schillinger C (2014) Top-Down is a Serious Disease. But It Can Be Treated
Shinners C (2014) New Mindsets for the Workplace Web
Stoddard J (2014)The future of leadership
Williams B (2014) Working Out Loud: When You Do That… I Do This
Verjans S (2013) How social media changes the way we work together SlideShare