Making research come alive. Helping people and practice thrive.
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Where is Philip?
Do you need to make research ‘come alive’ for staff in your organization?
For health, education and service sectors and for business in general, it is a racing certainty that however it is phrased, research, evidence-informed practice, knowledge management and knowledge translation are high on your radar.
Whether you are fulfilling the promises of the strategic plan, seeking accreditation or trying create a vibrant culture that will attract scarce staff and provide the best possible service, these will be ‘big issues’ for you. In a world of ever-changing fads, fashions and priorities, these corporate and personal 'research imperatives' are not going away any time soon.
Make your organization survive and thrive
No organization will survive and thrive in these most challenging times with staff who are LESS thoughtful, questioning, motivated, enquiring or educated. No organization will make the best clinical, service delivery, organizational, commercial or policy decisions with LESS information, knowledge and understanding.
You also know that these imperatives have to come alive in the hearts, heads and hands of your staff. Being ‘fully committed’ to research, knowledge, evidence, patient-centeredness, quality service or whatever means very little if such commitment exists only in policy documents or annual reports. The Missouri maxim here is a great acid test: ‘Show me!’
Ask me how my unique knowledge, experience and approach to ‘demystifying research’ and enabling staff potential can help your organisation take research out of the ‘too hard basket’ and transform it from rhetoric to reality.
Listening to thousands of nursing, health, and social care staff all over the world has taught me that for most staff, research, (or just the 'R' word’) is as feared as it is misunderstood, seen as something that belongs in that ‘other world’ – the university, the academy.
So many opportunities for clinical, service, professional and organizational improvement are lost because staff feel that they have neither the time, nor the resources, nor the knowledge to ‘do the research’ necessary to provide the knowledge base for action. This is both a shocking waste of opportunity and a huge source of untapped potential for organizational improvement.
I turn this situation around by showing clinicians and executive leaders how research in everyday, busy practice can happen, how a thriving, enthusiastic, collaborative research climate can be created that demonstrably benefits the organization at every level.
Improve the condition of your organization
Research has all the value of a chocolate teapot if its fate is to sit on a bookshelf or in a filing cabinet, or if its ‘dissemination’ means a few pages in the Journal of Obscure Findings. My approach to research and organizational development is unashamedly pragmatic. When I work with you, the purpose is to improve the condition of your organization and thus the people whom you serve.
