Having just written two emails and one event design note that all majored on hope, it was great to see the front cover of the Health Service Journal leading on a piece by Helen Bevan on the very same thing.
It is clear that ‘hope’ is needed in the NHS and Bevan shows how a conscious choice of that stance is possible (despite countervailing pressures) and how useful it is.
In our role as team coaches, we often start client events with ‘what is encouraging you?’ or ‘what gives you hope from the pre-event survey?’.
Only then do we go on to explore what might be holding a group back – and what new habits are needed (another version of 3Hs, to go with humility, honesty, humour and head, heart, hands).
