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Positive Deviance for Positive Change
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This program includes an on-demand recorded webcast, available for access any time.
Organizations spend millions to identify "best practices" and disseminate them through training and knowledge management initiatives. In contrast to most ‘best practice’ approaches, Positive Deviance (PD) is a change methodology based on the insight that knowledge alone doesn’t change behavior. If it did, nobody would smoke and everyone would floss. The primary hypothesis of PD is that within any organization, there are people whose unique behaviors allow them to find solutions to problems that most in the organization find impossible to solve. They have the same resources as everyone else and they work within the same culture under the same constraints as everyone else and yet they have found a better way.
The PD approach offers a way to engage everyone at all levels, from all parts of the organization, to identify those members, discover their "positively deviant" practices, and design collaborative approaches that enable everyone to adopt or create practices that work in their unique situation. In this session, you will learn how the use of PD in a major initiative combats hospital-acquired "SuperBug" infections and where it fits with other approaches to organization change.
Presenters
Monique Sternin is the technical advisor for the Positive Deviance initiative based at Tufts University. Her experience has been in the experimental use of the PD approach in such areas as advocacy against FGM in Egypt, condom usage for commercial sex workers in Myanmar, and maternal & newborn care in Pakistan. Her passion for the PD approach stems from its successful impact in improving lives of thousands of men, women and children throughout the world. She and her husband, Jerry Sternin, gave a compelling keynote at the OD Network conference in Baltimore in October 2007.
Lisa Kimball, Ph.D. is Executive Producer of Group Jazz, a company that supports the work of purposeful groups - teams, communities, task forces, organizations. Lisa has worked for more than 25 years for clients including government agencies, corporations, non-profit organizations, and educational institutions. For the past two years she has been working with hospitals and health care facilities applying the Positive Deviance approach to eliminating transmission of hospital acquired “superbug” infections. Lisa is on the Board of the Organization Development Network and Plexus Institute, a non-profit focused on applying ideas from complexity science to solve social and organizational problems.
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Organization Development Network
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Program Fee:
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