Increasingly Judith uses solution focused approaches, offering rapid, participative, empowering ways forward; this can be called Appreciative Inquiry.

Examples include:

An awayday for senior staff and managers at the Greater Manchester Immigration Unit to consider changes necessary to adapt to new funding requirements.

  The way Judith structured the day led us through reflection on what we do now through to prioritiizing what we need to do next in order to address the challenges that presently face organisations like our own. Judith clearly understood the aims and ethos of our organisation and provided exactly the right amount of direction. We came out in a very positive mood, feeling that the time 'away' from service delivery had been used most constructively. The report from the away day is a document we have referred to often and the priorities we identified that day have informed much of our activity since.
Ursula Sharma, GMIAU Management Committee Member
Jane Pilkington, Associate Director of Public Health at Stockport Primary Care Trust said:
  Judith introduced Appreciative Inquiry as part of a Scrutiny review to address health inequalities. Local people who took part, alongside Board members, councillors and senior officers enjoyed the positive focus and energy it created. As a result the approach has been embedded in health scrutiny and rolled out in the health inequalities strategy. Judith works with enthusiasm and energy and takes people with her; she is innately good at change management. I consider her to be an inspirational leader.

Currently doing inquiries:

  • Inquiries with Health and Wellbeing Overview and Scrutiny Committees commissoned by IDeA;
  • Inquiries with Smokefree North West;
  • Introductory Training Courses and consultancy for North West Together We Can and Neighbourhoods NW on community engagement and worklessness.

For a brief introduction to Appreciative Inquiry and some examples of inquiries download the Appreciative Inquiry Presentation [PDF 795kb]

 

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