The BLUE BOX is a set of online resources, tools and ideas that will help you with the ‘HOW’ of ‘WHAT’ you can do to be effective and engaging in your role as a changemaker. It is called the Blue Box because it is part of a wider philosophy called Blue Wave of Change.
To consolidate the function of the Directorate whilst unifying and developing pride in Allied Health Professions, so as to ensure a quality multidisciplinary service is delivered to the Maltese population.
Thinking about developing the system as well as the people in the system makes sense. Historically, the development would have been a leadership programme or a coaching programme developing individuals in designated roles separate from the micro systems they work (professional silos) in and from the macro system (Allied Health and the wider Health Service). This programme looks to develop and transition the system, the teams of the delegates and the delegates themselves at the same time.
The programme has ongoing leadership tasks which are all around learning and developing self and others in the system. These are not hypothetical or academic cognitively driven tasks. These tasks will require emotional engagement, not knowing and a degree of vulnerability. This is naturally more ambitious and more about dealing with emergence. All of this makes it exciting, truly developmental and experiential, and provides a much greater chance of system and behaviour change.
All too often fantastic development experiences are created where delegates learn and change as people and then we return them to a system that remains unchanged. This programme aims to begin the systems change that is required for a sustainable shift.
The development programme is structured around 4 specific areas:
This toolbox will provide:
This toolbox supports your learning by supporting you to explore your Personal Leadership and to Engage Others on your journey.
As Allied Health Professionals, you already work in a complex and changing delivery environment. Moving forward, it is likely you will be required to innovate around new models of care, new ways of working, and new and improved outcomes for patients and service users as the future emerges.
The toolbox supports you to take time to learn and reflect on all of your experiences, including during COVID. The toolbox encourages you to reflect in a positive way to support your resilience, the resilience of your colleagues and teams, and ultimately the resilience of the system as the new world emerges.
It feels critical to capture positive change, reflect on loss and define the leadership required for the emerging future. The programme poses the fundamental question ‘What do I need to let go of and what do I need to learn?’
The simplicity of the question believes in the fact that the consideration of it needs space and that space needs to be held. The desire of this Leadership Programme is that it creates space to explore the future of Allied Health in Malta.
Listen to Alison McKeen, an OT by profession, speaking about her experience of using a previous version of this Learning Space. (AHP Post Diagnostic Lead/Policy & Research Alzheimer Scotland).
In each section, there will be:
Fiona MacNeill is also on hand to support with specific questions, challenges and opportunities.
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