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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Difference Matters!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAre we just trying to be all things to everyone?\u201d is a question I\u2019ve heard a few times over the last few months, especially as many Active Partnerships are in strategy review and grappling with how they shape their future work to achieve our shared purpose – to tackle inactivity and inequalities across our populations through sport and physical activity.<\/p>\n

My honest answer and belief is yes!\u00a0 We probably are and that isn\u2019t necessarily a good thing.<\/p>\n

But let me qualify that\u2026 that doesn\u2019t mean to me that as a network we couldn\u2019t, and shouldn\u2019t, be engaged with a wide range of causes and using a raft of tactics which all help move us forward to realise our overall ambitions.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen that happen more over the last few years with the huge change in how Active Partnerships have transformed their thinking and practice, to reach more audiences, achieve wider outcomes, build new relationships and become key strategic players in their local systems.<\/p>\n

The conversations have become bigger, as have the networks we seek to influence across e.g. physical and mental health, transport, regeneration, education, social prescribing and integrated care, homelessness, climate change, crime prevention, housing, environments, economic recovery, anti-racism, active spaces, workplaces, workforces, communities and VCSE – to name only a few.<\/p>\n

This range of \u2018touch points\u2019 to spread the message and bring people together, is enabling APs to vitally position themselves locally as many things – influencers, connectors, advisors, deliverers, funders, advocators, backbone movement organisations \u2013 again to name only a few approaches – in order to create sustainable and collective impact.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Subsequently that can lead to concerns that the messaging can become too blurred, learning too extensive, strands of work too broad, results too intangible and consequently workloads too big.\u00a0 And raise further questions around should we be saying no more?\u00a0 Do we need more experts or generalists? How do we report to our Board? Do our partners understand what we\u2019re about anymore?<\/p>\n

So having both a clarity of purpose and a breadth of agendas to achieve it, is certainly a fine balancing act.\u00a0 I\u2019ve shared before my learning that all roads will always lead back to our why.\u00a0 Understanding and articulating what matters to us most, what is important about how we work, and how we can best affect societal change to make the difference we need, cannot in my view, be overestimated as the<\/em> fundamental task we have to do.<\/p>\n

But my experiences tell me we don\u2019t all need to do that in the same way.<\/p>\n

Consistency, efficiencies, scaling up, uniformity, templated measurement systems and one-size-fits-all solutions used to be what we saw as the way forward to build a strong network. And undeniably we now certainly have strong foundations as a collective network.<\/p>\n

But we also now recognise that this doesn\u2019t necessarily work for the many, across our many places.<\/p>\n

Clearly that doesn\u2019t negate the need to understand what works together, share learning across us and join up where expertise saves us \u2018re-inventing the wheel\u2019.\u00a0 And it still means that having common purpose, aligned values and working collaboratively remain the building blocks to achieve meaningful change on systemic levels. But we must also recognise that we need to do this in our own places, with the right people, doing their right work, at their right time to achieve their right outcomes for their unique systems.<\/p>\n

For some that may mean strategically influencing in certain places, whilst being a more of a connector in others. For some, where system partners require impact reporting to leverage in opportunities on a local level, providing evidence led evaluation processes works. \u00a0For some to demonstrate progress, improvement and the value of relationships, developing strong learning cultures and good practice moves thinking on.\u00a0For some kick-starting change through investment may be the catalyst needed.\u00a0 For others creating space to start conversations might make the difference.<\/p>\n

Surely this rightly will not, and should not, look the same for all – nor be developed at the same pace in the same way by the same people.\u00a0\u00a0 Its about being different things to different people in different places in different times in different ways.\u00a0 This could be true within an AP\u2019s own geography but will certainly be true across the whole network.<\/p>\n

Hence my answer to the opening question or this blog – we simply don\u2019t need to be all things to everyone in the same way.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2594″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]So how can we learn to value our differences?<\/em><\/p>\n

Well we\u2019ve learnt as a society that human problems require human solutions.\u00a0 Whether its through working with \u2018human learning systems\u2019 or\u2019 people centred approaches\u2019 we rightly appreciate that its our people who are, and will continue to be, the known secret of our success.<\/p>\n

Our systems are made up of people.\u00a0 And our people are individuals.\u00a0 Made up of their own values, histories, experiences, preferences and needs.\u00a0 And that\u2019s before you layer on personal skills, competencies and behaviours.<\/p>\n

Remember, when we describe our work with words such as flexible, relentless, simple or complex we are often doing it through our own lens of preferences.\u00a0 Because of course where some see chaos, others see order.\u00a0 Where some see messy-ness , others see patterns. Where some see a 6 in the visual, others see a 9.\u00a0 Its perspective. As the old adage says \u2018we don\u2019t see things as they are, but see things as we are\u2019. But we don\u2019t have to metaphorically walk in others\u2019 shoes to understand them – we can ask questions, listen to answers and be responsive to what we see, hear and feel.<\/p>\n

Our leaders have moved significantly in recognising that diversity and inclusion is the<\/em> key to creating innovative, fair, equitable, happy and motivating working environments.\u00a0 Ones in which different voices, lived experiences, backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, ages, disabilities, genders, religions, races and beliefs are valued and used to enable everyone to thrive.<\/p>\n

But <\/em>the value of difference when working in environments where change is almost perpetual, goes even deeper than this. It isn\u2019t enough just to accept difference but use it – to flex, adapt, be agile, resilient and capable of driving and handling change successfully.<\/p>\n

So by not only celebrating but actively making the most of the different styles, skills-sets, mindsets, learning profiles, preferences, needs and expertise across our people, we can shape transition and change by utilising our people where and when they are at their best.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s natural that people respond best to change when they feel a part of it. Taking people \u2018with us\u2019 on our journeys rather than \u2018doing it to\u2019 people makes change feel not only easier to implement but also more significant to all.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, not everyone needs to be involved in everything in the same way from the start through to the finish\u2013 people can be engaged at points where, when and how they can add most value.<\/p>\n

Some can sit comfortably in those uncomfortable intangible condition-setting conversations. Some through delivering strong outputs.\u00a0 Some can drive change being bold and quick independent decision makers.\u00a0 Some can connect into people\u2019s emotions and sense when we may need to slow down or gain more clarity before moving forward.\u00a0 Some add value by listening.\u00a0 Some by questioning.\u00a0 Some respond better to structure and detail.\u00a0 Some to holding on to the big picture.\u00a0 Some need people around them.\u00a0 Some need process. \u00a0Each person responds to change in different ways and at a difference pace!<\/p>\n

We have a tendency as leaders to try to equalise people out with set standards, goals and processes. But if we try more to understand how we tap into our people\u2019s needs to make the most of our individual strengths, we can enable all our people to add value differently at different times \u2013 whilst still ensuring everyone can see where their piece of the jigsaw contributes to us achieving our overarching aims.<\/p>\n

So, let\u2019s celebrate and value our differences across our local systems, national network and within our teams.\u00a0 Let\u2019s learn from each other recognising that the purpose of learning isn\u2019t just to affirm the \u2018right way to do it\u2019 but to evolve it. Let\u2019s value what sets us apart from each other, support one another to be at their best and enable everyone to contribute through our unique and individual, as well as collective, strengths.<\/p>\n

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