BlueSkyHealth
Organisational Development, Coaching and Therapy
We are not as rational as we like to think we are
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Hello, I am Sarah Hanchet and BlueSkyHealth Consulting is my practice.
I started as an NHS Manager, moved quickly into Executive roles and for 20 years led whole systems change work and ... I never once used a Prince Project Plan. This is because in my experience at least, systems and organisations are collections of people like you and me, and none of us like being project-managed. When our organisation or team is facing a change, we can feel pretty unsettled, and however 'professional' we may be, we all resist change in various ways. Sometimes overtly, sometimes much more sneakily. So I work on the basis that if we want to get from A to B then we do indeed need to have a plan AND a way of surfacing resistance, talking about it, engaging with it, rationalising it. and working with it.
Therefore BlueSkyHealth combines my senior management experience, gained in a complex, cost-conscious and political environment which is the NHS; with my engagement approach, which uses cost and time effective on-line interventions (absolutely no Post It Notes!); with an understanding of how people behave in groups like organisations; and strong skills in coaching your people to lead thoughtful and responsive transition processes. Finally, my therapy work means I bring a psychodynamic way of making sense of things (for example I am always curious about what is not being talked about), a skill in asking very good questions, a trained ability to contain my own feelings (most of the time), and to listen well for long stretches without having to know the answer. Which is useful as the truth is - the way from A to B usually lies with you and your people.
I started as an NHS Manager, moved quickly into Executive roles and for 20 years led whole systems change work and ... I never once used a Prince Project Plan. This is because in my experience at least, systems and organisations are collections of people like you and me, and none of us like being project-managed. When our organisation or team is facing a change, we can feel pretty unsettled, and however 'professional' we may be, we all resist change in various ways. Sometimes overtly, sometimes much more sneakily. So I work on the basis that if we want to get from A to B then we do indeed need to have a plan AND a way of surfacing resistance, talking about it, engaging with it, rationalising it. and working with it.
Therefore BlueSkyHealth combines my senior management experience, gained in a complex, cost-conscious and political environment which is the NHS; with my engagement approach, which uses cost and time effective on-line interventions (absolutely no Post It Notes!); with an understanding of how people behave in groups like organisations; and strong skills in coaching your people to lead thoughtful and responsive transition processes. Finally, my therapy work means I bring a psychodynamic way of making sense of things (for example I am always curious about what is not being talked about), a skill in asking very good questions, a trained ability to contain my own feelings (most of the time), and to listen well for long stretches without having to know the answer. Which is useful as the truth is - the way from A to B usually lies with you and your people.
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