Comfort and joy in work

Posted by soniasparkles

To find comfort, joy and happiness in the workplace is not easy. Now more than ever, there is more pressure to perform, conform and become the norm. There’s no time, there’s no freedom, there’s no reflective process. How can we bring joy to work, comfort, love and kindness under such conditions? It’s time to stop.…Read more »

McKinsey 7s model

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The McKinsey 7s model is a great tool to think about organisational changes in the wider system, environment and context. It recognises for improvements to be made and sustained, there are several factors that need to be aligned with a central shared purpose. It has a combination of “hard elements” (strategy, structure and systems) which…Read more »

The Secret Ingredients to #Endpjparalysis

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On 6th November 2016, the idea for Endpjparalysis was born in a tweet A seed of “caring” was planted. A flower of “compassion” grew. A field of “nurturing” blossomed. What is Endpjparalysis? Endpjparalysis is a national campaign with the most simplest yet ingenious purpose: encouraging patients in hospitals to get dressed in their own clothes,…Read more »

The power of pictures

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Information, knowledge and guidance is so important for service users within healthcare. Knowing how to look after ourselves, who to contact when we have concerns or what to do when things go wrong (in relation to our health) is so important. Think of the time when a patient didn’t ring or ask to come sooner…Read more »

Why do projects fail – pictorial 

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If we keep facing the same problems, why do we keep behaving in the same way to them? Do we really take the time to learn from our past similar experiences to avoid repeating them?  There are some things that are completely out of our control but there are also things which are completely in…Read more »