Day 88: Rock The Boat!

Are you disruptive, do you go against the grain, or question authority?  Organisations need you!  We need people who challenge the established, those who ask “why?”, and who don’t automatically follow.

Innovation and improvement can arise from constructive challenge.  If you have a colleague who is seen as ‘disruptive’; ask yourself if they really are, or are they just not so quick to fall into Group Think?

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got (Henry Ford). We need people who think differently so we can change and behave differently to improve outcomes.

Day 61: If they don’t know, how do we tell them?

This article by The Health Foundation makes for a fascinating read about the differences between public perception and belief about health inequalities versus reality. 

What I found particularly interesting, but unsurprising, is how much the public’s view of what affects their health and the power they have personally to change it differs so much from what the evidence says influences this.

To be effective in informing the public, we need to make our narrative personal and relatable to them.  We need to accommodate the range of educational, cultural, and generational differences that exist.  Much more work needs to be done.