A tweet by Helen Bevan a couple of years ago really resonated with me and as I’m thinking in my team about team development, I thought I’d start with it again for inspiration on what organisations can do:
1. Real change takes place in real work
In my team, we have strategy people working in service teams delivering the change with them — how about using data scientists to be embedded with frontline staff?
2. Those who do the work do the change
How about learning from programmes that support frontline staff to do systems change, learn from them and help them tell stories, like Systems Changers?
3. People own what they create
How about creating ways for residents to scale up activities into ventures or frontline services into cooperatives or even partnerships into new organisations?
4. Start anywhere, follow it everywhere
Test work to challenge an assumption, so for example to help people be safer, why not start with people who need to walk home in the dark after a night shift to better understand how they work, where their networks are, their perception of change, the demographics and how the experiment you do changes someone’s behaviour or not
5. Connect the system to more than itself
How about connecting people to other sectors through specific challenge-based labs, using different senses to bring people together without hierarchy, or inverting the problem.
