It was great to hear about project management today. So it was reinforced that projects are important in organisations to make sure we're doing work that matters. I believe this is true, I know from my own experiences that amongst all the everyday services we provide it is difficult to implement changes and improvements and I think creating each of these ideas for improvement into a project would allow this to happen.
I found this book and interesting interview with the authors
http://www.jkp.com/blog/2012/04/interview-gary-spolander-linda-martin-successful-project-management-in-social-work-and-social-care/
Our project: Our team are working on a project about training DSWs in autism, mental health and behaviours of concern. We are working well as a team and we spent a great deal of time today deciding what the project is and how we can do it within the time frame. I feel much more confident as we have reduced the scope of the project to provide information about what the evidence says should be in this sort of training and then comparing this to what is currently available. Now I am actually interested in contributing to the literature reviews.
Personal reflections from today: I am really enjoying this workshops, having time to meet with others in the same role as me and developing new ways of thinking. I can see there is heaps of ways to apply this to my work and develop new services and team processes through projects.
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