Systematic Review of Communities of Practice in Healthcare

I love systematic reviews. They are hard work, major undertakings and make life much easier for the rest of us. Compliments to the authors of this new paper which can be accessed online.How and why are communities of practice established&nbsp…

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Does opinion leadership change over time? New Research

I’m pleased to see useful research is being done to clarify further what we mean by opinion leadership. Too often I hear people reducing what is a very complex topic to a simple slide of Roger’s characteristics. Roger’s initial work on the Diffusion of…

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Meeting Agenda Good Practice

I’ve been on a mission for some years to get agendas for meetings organised and prepared in a way that supports an efficient and effective process.  here are many ways to do this and a recent post from Radcliffe Learning […

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Altering mental content – 3: Changing Minds

I come across clients who are sp captivated by the notion of spreading good ideas by stories that they forget that they also need to provide the theoretical base for the change, as well as the need to identify the key concepts – and – if required, supp…

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Seven Key Factors in how minds change – 1: Changing Minds

Notes from the book “Changing Minds” by Howard Gardner (2004)What I learnt was that if we want to help someone change their mind about what constitutes good practice (and thereby figure their practice is not the best so they need to decide to…

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Why do we forget good practice?

I spent a lovely English Spring day visiting the Roman Villa of Chedworth. I came away marvelled by the way in which they had underfloor heating and an hygienic toilet system fifteen hundred (and more) years ago. When the Romans left our small island, …

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