Energy for change - exploring the five energies necessary for high-performing teams, people's personal resilience and the contribution they can personally make to their team's performance.

1. Energy for Change
Leigh Kendall
NHS Horizons
@leighakendall
NHS England Women’s Network
London, 28 September 2017
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2. What we’ll do today:
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• About me
• What makes a good team…and a not-so-good
team (conversations in pairs)
• What is energy for change?
• What do team energies look like?
• What can YOU do to create positive energies
in your team?
• Resilience tools and tactics.

3. • A small, diverse team of people within the NHS
that supports change agents and builds change
agency
• We tune into the latest change thinking and
practice in healthcare and other industries
around the world
• The team has emerged through years of
supporting change in the NHS and the wider
health and care system
Who is the Horizons team?
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4. Life doesn’t always go to plan
• HELLP syndrome at 24 weeks’
pregnant (rare, life-threatening
pregnancy complication – can cause
multiple organ failure unless baby is
born).
• My son Hugo weighed just 420
grams (about the same size as
a tin of baked beans)
• Hugo lived for 35 days.
• He was too small, and
premature. His treatment was
withdrawn.
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5. Life after…
• Diagnosed with post-traumatic stress
disorder
• Getting appropriate treatment took more
than two years
• Trying to find a ‘new normal’, a way of
living a life unexpected
• A long period of time away from work
• At one point I thought I would not work
again.
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6. Now…
• Today, I am doing a
job I love
• I am a campaigner
and patient leader -
#HugosLegacy
#MatExp
• While there are
challenges,
I am thriving

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8. Say hello to the person next to you
Remember a time…
When you were part of a high performing, high
energy team
As a pair, write down three words or phrases that
summarise how it felt being part of such a team
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9. Remember a time…
When you were part of a team that WASN’T high
performing or high energy
As a pair, write down three words or phrases that
summarise how it felt being part of such a team
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11. “Energy for change” is defined as
The capacity and drive of a
team, organisation or
system to act and make the
difference necessary to
achieve its goals http://www.institute.nhs.uk/tools/energy_for
_change/energy_for_change_.html
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12. Energy is the strength and vitality
required for sustained physical or
mental activity.
Change: Make or become different
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13. Teams perform best when
five energies are high
Psychological
Physical
Spiritual
Social Intellectual
Source: http://www.institute.nhs.uk/tools/energy_for_change/energy_for_change_.html
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15. Social Energy
Energy of personal engagement,
relationships and
connections between people
It’s where people feel a
sense of
“us and us”
rather than
“us and them”
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16. Spiritual energy
Energy of commitment to a
common vision for the future,
driven by shared values and a
higher purpose
Gives people the confidence to move
towards a different future that is more
compelling than the status quo
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17. Psychological energy
Energy of courage,
resilience and feeling
safe to do things
differently
Involves feeling supported to
make a change and trust in
leadership and direction
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18. Physical energy
Energy of action,
getting things done
and making progress
The flexible, responsive drive
to make things happen
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19. Intellectual energy
Energy of analysis, planning
and thinking
Involves gaining insight as well as planning and
supporting processes, evaluation, and arguing a case
on the basis of logic/evidence
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20. High and low ends of each
energy domain
Social isolated solidarity
Spiritual uncommitted higher purpose
Psychological risky safe
Physical fatigue vitality
Intellectual Illogical reason
HIGHLOW
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21. 1
2
3
4
5
Social
Spiritual
PsychologicalPhysical
Intellectual
Team 1:
What’s your
assessment of their
energy for change?
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22. The challenge of
disproportionately high
intellectual energy
Intellectual energy on its own isn’t transformational
It keeps leaders in their comfort zone (intellect to intellect)
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23. What is the energy in
your team like?
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24. Anne Brown
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25. What can YOU do to
improve energies in your team?
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27. Thank you!