Estelle Macdonald and Mark Finnis

Hull Conference – 1st and 2nd November 2011 A restorative strategy for leading

change

What is one change that you could make that would create

the biggest results?

Key questions

 What does organisational change look like on all levels?

 What are the challenges we face?  What are the barriers and how do we

break them down?  How do we develop restorative leadership

styles?  What do they look like?

Relationships,Relationships, Relationships!!

Build, maintain and repair

SOCIAL DISCIPLINE WINDOW – This is it !!!

WITH

Change requires energy…

‘People don’t resist change: they resist being changed’

Peter Senge

Whose responsibility is it ?

The right behaviours…

•  Taking responsibility: personal effectiveness, impact, providing direction

•  Sharing responsibility: joined up thinking, inter personal, coaching

•  Challenge and support: resilience, providing direction, customer and community focus

•  Openness and fairness: positive role model, respect, managing excellence

“For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.” Anthony Robbins

Building a Restorative Organisation – 5 Key Steps

Strategy (What we want)

Performance Management

(How will we know we are doing it

well)

Self Evaluation (Where are we

now?)

Implementation Plan

(How do we do it?)

Research & Evaluation

(How will we know the impact and

outcomes)

Child, Young

Person, Adult

Community

Restorative Practices, Inter agency work, User

involvement, Citizen panels, community conferences &

participation

Towards a Restorative & Collaborative System

Way of Working Establish Geographical Area

or Work Area

Run Local Conference

Produce Local Implementation Plan In response to local need and knowledge

Establish Local Implementation Management Group

Monitor, adapt and review implementation in relation to developing needs

Identify 3 children’s homes with the most issues

Strategic meeting using data and professional

knowledge

Trainers work with teams - embedding

Implementation Group - working model to use

elsewhere

i.e. CYP Complaints

Meeting all relevant managers and staff

Sit with managers/staff and plan

targeted response

Working with managers, providing training for

them and challenge to parents etc

City-wide strategy   What you model in a setting can be replicated across an

area/region   You must build capacity in areas/ settings – use a

trainer/practioner model   Establish a management group that can make decisions

representative of all agencies.   Think the big picture – deliver through the small things   Use data to target effectively – work in hot spots – build

around the most effective /sympathetic hub   Leadership needs to model the behaviours – early

leadership training is important.

Leadership that inspires…

“When the best leader’s work is done, the people say: we did it ourselves.”

“Vision without action is

hallucination” Andy Law, St.Lukes

Hull Centre for Restorative Practice

Office : +44 (0)1482 594347

estellemacdonald1@me.com markfinnis@mac.com

www.hullcentreforrestorativepractice.co.uk Twitter: @hullrestorative