Module 4 Video Narrative:
Strengths-Based Principles:
Interviewing for client strengths:
Recovery and a Strengths Approach:
Strengths Assessment & Plan tool:
Strengths Assessment & Plan guidance notes:
Staff Strengths Assessment:
Team Strengths Assessment:
Strengths in the workplace:
Working with Strengths checklist:
Module 1 Video Narrative:
Definitions worksheet:
The Challenging Concept of Risk:
What Needs to Happen worksheet:
Taking risks is essentially about making decisions. Module 5 ~ Risk Decision-Making explores the complex influences on our decision-making abilities and processes. Systems 1&2 thinking, intuition, and a structured approach to making reasoned decisions form the basis of the module. However, we also need to be aware of our own biases and the need for organisational support.
Module 5 ~ Introduction:
5.1 Risk Decision-Making:
5.2 Risk Decision-Making Quotes:
5.3 Systems 1&2 Thinking:
5.4 Intuition:
5.5 Irrational Habits & Biases:
5.6 A Structured Approach to Risk Decision-Making:
5.7 Decision-Maker Qualities:
5.8 Organisational Support:
5.9 Module summary comments:
The concept of Positive Risk-Taking is a creation emerging out of what I call a Strengths Approach. The success, or otherwise, in taking a risk will be significantly underpinned by our knowledge and application of strengths (wants, desires, talents, abilities, capabilities, motivations). Module 4 ~ Working with Strengths focuses on defining a strengths approach and its evidence base; practical application of specifically designed tools; and the importance of an organisational understanding of what the approach offers.
Module 4 ~ Introduction:
4.1 Working with Strengths:
4.2 What is a strengths approach?:
4.3 Historical Context & Evidence Base:
4.4 A Strengths Approach in Practice:
4.5 Strengths Tools & Teamwork:
4.6 Strengths and the Organisational Context:
4.7 Strengths & Recovery:
4.8 Module summary comments:
The language of strengths individualises each of us; whereas, the language used to describe problems tends more to aggregate us into less well-defined groups. In the following brief video, I will contrast the types of language we use for describing ourselves either from a problems perspective or from a strengths approach. Click on the following link now to access the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bALixNzWHVU
This video is part of the email sequence providing subscribers with access to a wide range of strengths-based resources. If you wish to subscribe to the email list click the following link (it’s FREE resources that I am offering, with no catch!):
https://positiverisktaking.lpages.co/working-with-strengths-2/
Steve Morgan (Practice Based Evidence) presents: Working with Strengths
Click on the following link to find out more about my 8-point Strengths Checklist, and a range of other resources:
https://positiverisktaking.lpages.co/working-with-strengths-2/
I have been developing and delivering a Strengths Approach since it was first formally introduced to me by Professor Charlie Rapp in 1991. It has been without doubt the most exciting and influential set of ideas I have experienced throughout a long and varied career; and expanded further through my reading around the Gallup organisation strengths literature.
I now offer FREE access to ideas that will help you identify and work with your own strengths. Whether it is our own personal development, or that of others around us, it shouldn’t be a secret as to how we can become more of who we really are.
Best wishes,
Steve Morgan
Practice Based Evidence & The Strengths Revolution.
Risk decisions are challenging, and can be difficult, but should not be governed by fear and a ‘what if’ syndrome. In this video I use four separate quotes to help us reflect on our decision-making processes.
Use the following link to also access a free training webinar which introduces my simple 5-step process to risk decision-making, which also form the core modules of the Positive Risk-Taking Membership Site:
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In this video I share a wide range of quotes that reflect different aspects of risk-taking. Indeed, I would suggest they help us to understand and reflect on the whole rationale that underpins why we should be taking calculated risks.
Use the following link to also access a free training webinar which introduces my simple 5-step process to risk decision-making, which also form the core modules of the Positive Risk-Taking Membership Site:
https://app.webinarjam.net/register/21360/99e6026a97
We all work with risk; we all have to make risk decisions, and sometimes those decisions involve the challenge of taking risks. Part of overcoming the challenges resides in our awareness of our own mindset in relation to risk. I have a simple 5-step approach to helping me make the challenging decisions… in work as well as in life.
Click on the following link to access a free webinar that provides 40+ minutes of training in the challenges risk can present, and an introduction to my 5-step approach:
https://app.webinarjam.net/register/21360/99e6026a97
This webinar condenses 30+ years of my experience working in and alongside health and social care services, and 60+ publications around the subject. Risk is something we should embrace from a positive perspective, and this webinar develops this mindset.
So, what does funky and creative working look like when you have to implement things through a team? It is one thing for a creative individual to plough their own furrow, but as soon as you get two or more people together the opportunity arises for three or more opinions on how to go about things!
In this episode I outline my consultancy work across 2000-2010 with an assertive outreach team that was based in Kettering, Northamptonshire. The vision was largely developed by the team manager, Sue Jugon, with reference to the training I undertook as part of the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. It requires careful recruitment, and the type of training and practice development support established at the time as the Practice Based Evidence consultancy.
What it looks like is a commitment to good clear communication, flexible working, and on-going reflection and developmental support. The outcomes were best reflected in the changes seen in what were deemed to be very challenging clients when you devote sufficient respectful time, and deliver client-centred working rather than overblown service rhetoric.
For the full content of this episode click the links to iTunes and Sound Cloud (or go to Stitcher Radio):
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/strengths-revolution-steve/id867043694
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/095-a-funky-case-study/id867043694?i=361448998&mt=2
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” [Phil Jackson]
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