by John-Paul Crofton | Jan 22, 2025 | Leadership & Decision Making, Change Management, Creativity & Innovation, Fundamentals, Leadership, Learning, Motivation, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Public Services Innovation, Social Innovation
All too often a team groups together to do a brainstorming session to solve a problem. But despite the excitement the outcome is a disappointing failure: The ‘Minimum Acceptable Solution’, IntroductionWhat is Brainstorming and Group Problem Solving?The Excitement of...
by John-Paul Crofton | Sep 30, 2024 | NHS, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership, Leadership & Decision Making
The NHS is broken according to the UK Prime Minister. The NHS is at a crossroads once again, with fresh discussions of reform and yet another plan being proposed aimed at ‘fixing’ what’s deemed a broken system. But will a plan work? Can we learn from how other plans...
by John-Paul Crofton | May 8, 2024 | Leadership & Decision Making, Leadership, Learning, Problem Solving & Decision Making
Decision Making is the art of learning to make better choices. Making a good decision is not about making the RIGHT DECISION. This leads to the most common mistake in decision making, the Einstellung Effect: getting stuck repeating the same old ‘right’...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 13, 2024 | Complete Guides, Leadership, Leadership & Decision Making, Social Impact
1. Introduction to Social Impact Leadership Your Guide to Making a Difference. It’s easy to want to make the world a better place, to create a ‘social impact’. It’s much harder to do in practice. Most people have limited success that...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 4, 2024 | Leadership & Decision Making, Leadership, Learning, Social Change
Social impact leaders are people who have created an inspiring example that have inspired many others to follow. These individuals have helped to generate significant positive changes within their communities and places. They have all address pressing social issues....
by John-Paul Crofton | Jan 31, 2024 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Fundamentals, Leadership, Leadership & Decision Making, Social Impact, Tools For Change, Uncategorized
To create a strategy to maximise social impact we really need to focus on what we actually mean by social Impact. People often mean different things when thinking about social impact. This creates real problems when we try to improve it and address the needs of our...
