How Can Strengths Based Working Lead to Healthier and Happier Communities?

About This Event

In this event colleagues from Bromford Lab, an innovation think tank working within social housing, will bring together a range of contributors who are taking radical action to improve community wellbeing and mental health.

“Strengths” is a concept that encompasses many aspects of who people are. Strengths include character traits, talents, and abilities. When you recognise, develop, and use them, you can take forward action and make real change. You are empowered to live well and thrive in spite of mental illness and other challenges.

Sharing their ground breaking Neighbourhood Coaching model, the session will invite attendees to solve problems in new and radical ways by reframing the problem as opportunities - building bridges between the community, health, housing and social care.

This event is for everyone who has the courage or wants to find the courage, to break out of traditional ways of working and thinking, and work with communities in a more experimental ‘safe to fail’ way that encourages innovation.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the masterclass you will:

• How to shift to strengths based working and thinking
• How to capture colleagues and community members at peak creativity and conduct ‘safe to fail’ experiments
• Getting people on board and building support for change
• Tactics to cope with failure or idea rejection
• How to identify quick wins and circumvent bureaucracy

About the Speakers

Paul Taylor- Facilitator, Innovator and Designer, Bromford Labs

Paul leads innovation and design at Bromford, a housing association of 44,000 homes in Central England.

He has worked in the housing sector for 20 years having extensive experience in strategy development, marketing, communications, customer experience and product design.

Eight years ago he founded Bromford Lab as a new way for the organisation to embrace challenge and adopt a ‘fast fail’ approach to open innovation. Nearly everything the Lab works on is openly accessible at www.bromfordlab.com.

He is a regular speaker and adviser on innovation and a frequent blogger and contributor to publications.

Joining the masterclass

Joining instructions will be sent 48 hours before the masterclass is about to start.

You can join Zoom via your laptop, tablet or smartphone. If you are joining by smartphone, you will need to download the free Zoom app first. You can join Zoom by telephone only but you will only be able to hear the audio (similar to a telephone conference call).

About the Collaborative

We are an influential partnership, formed from cross sector organisations in the North West. We represent the NHS, health and social care and local government to bring you a range of collaborative masterclasses.

By combining our unique specialisms, the collaboration explores innovative thinking with expert speakers, to provide cross sector knowledge sharing for leaders across the North West.

The collaborative is made up of the following organisations:

• Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA),
• Mersey Internal Audit Agency (MIAA)
• NHS North West Leadership Academy (NHS NWLA)
• North West Employers (NWE)
• North West Association of Directors of Adults Social Care Services (ADASS)
• Innovation Agency Coaching Academy