Welcome to our Friday Newsletter! A quick request from us again this week...
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This week it's Max's turn to share his three interesting links...
People misunderstand the concept of disruption innovation. It's true essence is about starting with small, imperfect or "low-tech" ideas that the potential to grow and meet the majority of need. Not taking a solution that meets the most complex need and applying it to all cases. This is a very agile idea - (1) in starting small and growing and (2) prototyping ideas that are "good enough" to get started and to get feedback.
I wanted to share about this exciting participatory budgeting project going at Brent Council. Residents have got the power to decide how £2.25m is spent on their community. Giving the power to decide what support a community needs over to those who understand it best is great to see. Can't wait to see the initiatives to come as a result!
Finally, I also wanted to share this great little video explainer on Buurtzorg, the dutch home care/adult social care organisation that are a crucial part of the movement for relational or relationship-based social care. They're founded on principles of self-management, trust and placing relationships at the centre. Needless to say, we love their stuff.
More interesting reads from the Basis group...
Basis's new introductory video The Basis Team We've created a new video for our Homepage, which gives a brief introduction to what we do and how
we can help teams in the public sector. Give it a watch if you'd like a refresher on what we're all about (or if you miss hearing Joe's dulcet tones!).
Max has written another great blog, this time on his experiences of working with Matt and a local council. He talks about what we do best - impact sprints, deep work, getting it done days. He says 'this was probably the most I've ever learned in the shortest time'.
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Our new training course, co-delivered with online facilitation experts Rees McCann: Create and run online events that connect - 21st & 22nd September 9:00 - 13:00
Suffering Zoom fatigue, Powerpoint paralysis and death by debrief - when your online gatherings really need to engage people in order to deliver results? This short course is for you. It's for leaders and communicators who need their remote gatherings - meetings of all kinds, workshops, public consultations, whole-team events, conferences and more - to include as many voices as possible in active, high-energy participation.
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