Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #136
My weekly posts
Getting the most out of your team’s efforts… when a resource-based view is good, actually.
To get the most out of your team, avoid a reductive resource-based view and focus on Resource Optimisation. This tool engages employees to understand actual time allocation, aligns work with organizational priorities, and enhances productivity. Start by clearly defining your priorities and breaking down time use into work packages. This approach helps identify strategic and wasteful time, enabling better work system design and innovation. It’s not a one-time exercise; it fosters continual improvement and cost savings by optimizing resources. Effective leadership ensures resources are wisely used and aligned with organizational goals. Have you ever seen hard work misaligned with priorities?
Courses and events
National Commissioning Academy
Join us on the national Commissioning Academy this autumn, hosted by Royal Borough of Greenwich
Contract management development
Joint us this Autumn for a virtual only development programme!
Outcomes-based commissioning: a ten step introduction
Join us this Autumn for a virtual introduction to commissioning.
My selection of systems | cybernetics | complexity links from the weblog Systems Community of Inquiry
I’m not currently keeping www.syscoi.com up fully but I am still trying…
SCiO monthly events — UK and Nederland, Jun 2024
Follow SCiO — Systems and Complexity in Organisation
https://stream.syscoi.com/2024/06/01/scio-monthly-events-uk-and-nederland-jun-2024/
Navigating the Now: A Guide to Recognizing What Is Going On — A 3-Day In-Person General Semantics Seminar, July 25–27, 2024, London
[Some discounted tickets may be available — email benjamin.taylor@redquadrant.com if you are interested]
Things I shared on socials
Social Care Future: Social Care in the General Election.
Social Care Future: Very little detail in the Party manifestos about plans for social care, with a limited menu focused on funding/cost, not on function or form. Here are a few articles we’ve shared exploring these themes… https://www.linkedin.com/posts/neil-crowther-19498134_socialcare-socialcarefuture-activity-7211370012446478336-mgMx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
How to solve six things stopping social enterprises from delivering more public services. E3M.
Vitalising Purpose. Free Ebook from E3m.
https://e3m.org.uk/vitalising-purpose-book/?__s=l4rlmhw9p6ennu1fvjik
Social Enterprises — Data and Evidence. E3M
Understanding people in places. Rebecca Towers writing for Public Policy Design.
https://publicpolicydesign.blog.gov.uk/2024/03/15/understanding-people-in-places/
Anti-corruption charity calls for ban on parties accepting donations from companies with public contracts
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/27/public-contracts-companies-tory-donors
Dr Mike C Jackson OBE new book — Critical Systems Thinking: A Practitioner’s Guide
‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books | Libraries | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/25/how-britains-libraries-provide-more-than-books
14 years: the Tory record on austerity and local government — Tortoise
https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/06/26/14-years-the-tory-record-on-austerity-and-local-government/