Work-based task 2

Work-based task 2:
Ideas for an improvement project

During the programme you will undertake a project which seeks to improve an aspect of strengths-based practice within your organisation or system.

This is on the basis that there is no better way to explore our learning than by applying it to a real-life situation.

The project can relate to any aspect of strengths-based practice.

The only criteria are that the project has to:

  • relate to strengths-based practice
  • enable you to demonstrate leadership
  • engage people with lived experience
  • be achievable in the six months of the programme (or at least have a significant proportion completed).

Work-based task 2 involves you developing initial ideas about the focus of your improvement project. An improvement project could cover a wide range of activities, such as:

  • establishing a new arrangement for co-producing services with local citizens
  • designing a new learning intervention / programme to support people from across the organisation to develop and implement strengths-based practice
  • reviewing policies, procedures and forms and re-designing these with teams so they support and reflect the principles of strengths-based practice
  • working with commissioners to think through how they develop more strengths-based contracts or measures of performance
  • agreeing the outcomes for a service in partnership with those who are expected to access its support
  • developing a strategic vision for what an aspect of strengths-based practice could achieve
  • introducing a quality framework to support in the review and / or measurement of strengths-based practice.

As well as thinking through yourself, you may want to talk to your manager and/or organisational sponsor and speak with those who are leading the implementation of strengths-based practice in your area.

At the next live session, you will share your initial thoughts regarding your project with your learning group and obtain their feedback.

Subsequent work-based tasks will involve scoping out the improvement project with stakeholders and undertaking the project (Work-based task 3).

Strengths-based leadership programme