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Angela Carrington

Regional Medicines Governance Team Lead

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and Department of Health Northern Ireland

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  • Angela Carrington posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Tim,
    I raised a similar question on this group about a week ago. I’m undertaking with my NI team of medicines safety pharmacists a virtual team review and planning exercise next week. So in preparation for that I’ve reviewed the LS techniques and also Q design cards for ideas on what might suit our needs and could work virtually. As Zoom seems…Read more

  • Angela Carrington posted a new activity comment 4 years ago

    Thanks Matthew, these are all great suggestions. My team has been together for 14 plus yrs so it’s finding something that doesn’t perhaps come across as too contrived. But yes I have the App and the Q Design Method Cards are also good but great to get some suggestions that might work to aid discussion about effective team working that can be done…Read more

    • Maybe everyone thinking on one’s own for a minute or two about the challenge, then getting into pairs in breakout rooms would work – and you could open up the zoom whiteboard (or a slide you’ve made) and each pair could later type their best ideas/suggestions onto there. Then close the breakouts and all discuss commonalities/priorities as a whole…Read more

  • Angela Carrington posted a new activity comment 4 years ago

    Thanks Matthew, I’ll definitely try and attend one of these. I’m specially interested at the moment to learn what LS techniques might work best virtually. I have a regional team and whilst we have for many years used VC it doesn’t lend itself well to idea development as we often need that physicality in the room to help us relax to spark ideas…Read more

    • Given last Thursday’s great immersion training, it seems like most Liberating Structures work surprisingly well online. Troika, TRIZ, Ecocycle, What? So What? Now What? etc.

      Some like ‘Mad Tea’ (and ‘Liquid Courage’) can be done in Zoom either via the chatbox, or via break-out groups. People are fairly evenly split on which they prefer. Breakout…Read more

    • BTW, the Liberating Structures app enables you to sort all the Liberating Structures to find the ones that are about generating ideas, and you can specify how much time you’ve got too.

      I just downloaded it. Great…

      (Kind of prefer tangible thing slightly myself. There are LS Cards too!).

  • Angela Carrington's profile was updated 6 years ago

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