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Blog posts

• Making visible the crucial role of relationships in learning during COVID-19

  Improving relationships across our networks is crucial to enabling learning for improvement. Matthew Mezey looks at some key roles needed within networks to bring about change and the importance of good 'Relational Coordination'.

• Weeknote, 05 June: Learning, growing and changing

  What's happening across improvement this week? Our summary of what is being shared from improvers across the UK and Ireland.

• COVID-19: how can we all learn effectively?

  To mark our first workshop exploring learning from rapid improvement, Q's Community Manager looked back at some learning approaches shared by Q's members and special interest groups that could be useful in the current context.

• A discussion about what we’re learning during the COVID-19 pandemic – join in (1)

  Q's Community Engagement Manager, Matthew Mezey, discusses how Q members and other improvers are finding more effective ways to learn together during the COVID-19 crisis.

• Developmental Evaluation – workshop recap, part 2

  In the second part of this recap of the recent workshop examining Development Evaluation, Matthew shares the DE approach to scaling and some of the tools to use it practice.

• Developmental Evaluation: how to guide innovation in complex situations – workshop report (pt. 1)

  Developmental Evaluation is a novel and emerging type of evaluation. Q Community Manager Matthew Mezey shares his learning from an inspiring workshop with one of its pioneers, Kate McKegg. Can we grow a whole new cohort of Developmental Evaluators – when it represents such a major paradigm shift?

• How to power your improvement work – with Liberating Structures

  How can Liberating Structures help you achieve your improvement goals? Matthew Mezey shares highlights from Q's recent learning session in Birmingham.

• Shifting the conversation from burnout to joy at work

  We're really excited to have Pedro Delgado from IHI and Mason Fitzgerald from the East London NHS Foundation Trust, host an in-demand breakout session on Joy at Work at next week's annual community event. Find out more about what to expect here.

• Community Manager’s update: news, events and other unmissable Q opportunities

  Each month Matthew Mezey, Q's Community Manager, will share a round-up of the most recent community happenings. Trending this month: complexity science, co-production, Q impact and evaluation and more!

• ‘Easy, time light, impact heavy’ – join Q’s Randomised Coffee Trial chats

  Join Q's 'Randomised Coffee Trial' conversations - for a refreshing mix of inspiration, ideas, new connections and fun.

• A real sense of community – at the first Q welcome event

  The first Q members welcome event – in the North East and North Cumbria on 22 March – offered a real sense of community to the 120 new joiners. Q Community Manager Matthew Mezey shares his experience.

• Safety-II, the new kind of safety that isn’t only about avoiding disaster: Latest Q Groups’ highlights

  From Quality Management Systems to Joy in Work, Joriam Ramos shares some highlights from across Q’s Special Interest Groups and invites you to read, watch and get involved.

• Introducing Systems Convening Practices into A Project Management Environment

  Diane Ketley and Matthew Mezey share three key lessons drawn from a chat with Madi Hoskin, on her experience of systems convening.

• Systems Convening in practice: a chat with Madi Hoskin

  Diane Ketley and Matthew Mezey share the learnings from a recent virtual conversation with Madi Hoskin on her experience of systems convening.

• Purpose, principles, practicals: co-creating a vision for a more participatory Q

  An update on our process of co-creating the future of participation at Q, and what’s coming next.

• How can we create conditions for greater depth and breadth of participation across our community?

  Since Q was established in 2015, the community has grown rapidly. To meet the challenges and opportunities facing health and care, we’re looking to do more to spark and sustain collaboration between us, write Andy Galloway and Matthew Mezey.

• ‘Adaptive Spaces’ for an emerging future – report from a Zoom

  Follow a virtual meeting discussing ‘Acting into an Emerging Future: Adaptive Space, Uncertainty and Innovating our Way Forward’, hosts Matthew, Gareth and Diane share a summary of insights from the session.

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