Learning Sets

Really Learning specializes in learning sets. In addition to those run for purely personal development of the participants we have an expertise in Sets that look broadly and deeply at a particular issue, with the aim of deepening understanding and making that understanding available to others. Many of these sets are run in conjunction with Anaptys Ltd.

The current learning set - Take it to the Limit - is just concluding. It has considered why it is that across the NHS and beyond a deep dissatisfaction has been noted on the part of doctors and other health care professionals (HCPs). This is especially puzzling given that unprecedented sums of money are being spent on health care and technology offers exciting advances and evidence about what works enables resources to be targeted wisely. So why do HCPs not feel excited, able and effective?

Using schools of thinking not often applied to health care organisations (anthropology, sociology, psychotherapy, moral and political philosophy) we have discovered that there are a small number of pervasive forces that inevitably result in good people offering bad care, unless our responses to these forces are altered.

Take it to the Limit

To see the full discussion paper click here.

Click here to see the summary: What makes good doctors practise bad medicine?

The set is currently organising seminars to introduce the ideas to others. If you would be interessted in participating in a seminar please contact us.

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Previous Sets have included:

Beyond Partnership:

Why is it that so many partnerships between organisations fail to deliver their potential? This set discovered that by asking four questions at any time in the life of a partnership it is possible to identify what the partnership can realistically achieve and what it cannot. To see the paper click here

Making Strategy Work:

How can practicing health care leaders mix together classical thinking about planning and strategy, with that of emergent strategy and complexity theory and in doing so introduce change that will stick. To see the paper click here.