Collaboration is a complex need

In Seasons One, Two and Three of the PIElink community of practice lunchtime forums, (HERE), we had returned continually to the discussion of 'top to toe embedding' - the roll out of the PIE approach not just in multiple services, but throughout the whole of the organisation, from the Board of Governors to the frontline of services – 'from top to toe' - and also in reaching out to other services in their area. (See the video opposite/below for a summary).

Often this is then designated as the task of one individual, as a 'PIEs champion' or 'PIE lead' within an organisation or a network, to 'roll out' the PIEs approach - or, as some call it, to 'implement' PIEs.  (NB: This last is a phrase we are rather less comfortable with, as it implies something pre-planned, which is not how evolution works. But this too is something to discuss...)

That individual might be a member of staff, in the management team; or it might be a consultant brought in to advise; or a specialist, perhaps a psychologist, attached to the service. Either way, we have in mind the person the organisation looks to, to lead, advise, and take it forward.

An opportunity for PIE leads to talk over with others the challenges, the sensitivities and the opportunities seems welcome. This was clearly going to be a perennial issue; and one more suited to the extended, on-going engagement of a Special Interest Group.

Meanwhile : using the Pizazz for roll out.

At the same time, we are hearing that many services are finding the Pizazz process in itself very effective for helping to embed the PIE way of thinking, and at the same time, to advance actual, practical, frontline-led development in the services where it is used.

In a larger agency, with multiple services, the PIE Abacus seems an equally effective way to 'take this up a gear'.  For more information and resources for PIE leads on the scope of the PIE Abacus, see : HERE and HERE

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The discussion on 'roll out' of the PIE approach, and 'top to toe embedding' throughout a services, was one of the liveliest from Season One of these lunchtime forums.

In the diagram and video above, Robin Johnson sums up, as best he can, the range of issues that were discussed.

(NB: With a twelve minute summary, there is a case for trying to condense it still further, with listed bullet points. But it is the way that all these issues interweave and re-enforce each other that is the central message. So we won't.)

All forums 

Season Four : HERE

An 'Editorial Board' for the PIElink? : HERE

Other SIGs

PIEs and Pizazz in tenancy sustainment [SIG] : HERE

PIEs research and evaluation [SIG] : HERE

A service user-friendly language for PIEs and Pizazz : dates t.b.c

Commissioning for PIEs*

• Those interested, contact Natalie at: natalie [dot] leona [dot ]timothy [@] gmail{dot] com)

PLEASE NOTE: By its nature, the discussions on embedding throughout an organisation will have tended to be internal to each agency. There is less written - so far - for the public gaze, as 'case studies'.  As the discussions develop, we may expect to see more examples here.