Stepping stones to facilitating change in the workplace

PD offers a structured and robust methodology to achieve necessary, sustainable change in healthcare environments through facilitation (McCormack, et.al. 2013). McCance et.al (2013) suggest that facilitation can lead to the... [ view full abstract ]

PD offers a structured and robust methodology to achieve necessary, sustainable change in healthcare environments through facilitation (McCormack, et.al. 2013). McCance et.al (2013) suggest that facilitation can lead to the development of transformational leaders and sustained person-centred cultures . Practice Developers therefore, need to be able to develop individuals within the workplace as facilitators of PD and provide work-based learning opportunities to enable individuals to grow. Dewing (2010) describes the process of facilitation in PD as the assisting of others to unlearn the rituals of practice, discovering new ways of learning through PD processes and the applying and sharing of the new learning in their own workplace. Although various facilitation models exist within PD (e.g. Shaw, et. al., 2008 ; van Lieshout, 2013), The Critical Companionship (CC) Framework (Titchen, 2000) has remained an often referred to model for use in practice. However, documented evidence for its application since its inception has been minimal. In part, this may be due to the complexity of the model, its language and the length of time needed to develop expertise in using the model which has been seen as impractical (Dewing and Wright 2003). As part of a PhD, the CC model has been theoretically examined and two new related models have been developed.
Aim and objectives:
To provide a work-based facilitation model to enable clinical leaders to be effective in the facilitation of change.
To establish if the Critical Ally and Critical Friend models (Hardiman and Dewing, 2014), provide stepping stones to enable leaders to grow as facilitation of change within their own workplace.
Methods:
Participatory action research
Analysis and Results:
This poster will creatively demonstrate the testing of the models as part of a Participatory Action Research Study.