Amy Wonkka
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4,197 appearances
26 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 11 May
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On a piece of literature, uh, a little of research that was done through the Veterans Affairs Hospital where they looked at
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what middle managers can actually do, what behaviors they engage in to influence change.
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So it has been documented that middle managers can do this work effectively.
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Uh and some of the things that they did were uh communication, so leveraging communication in a really rich bi-directional way.
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So talking to staff, getting feedback from staff, doing in-person observation, uh, middle managers to impact change positively, uh, worked specifically on clinical innovation projects.
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So identifying something that wasn't going well within the
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organization, calling it a project.
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going out of their way to to diffuse resources and and you know, make it a goal of the organization.
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They worked a lot on capacity building.
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So using their own time to help the time to help therapists use their time in a more efficient way or to create time for therapists to engage in evidence-based practice-related activities.
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They did a lot of training, a lot of coaching, a lot of organizing and scheduling.
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in services.
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They also did what they call selling innovation.
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And that kind of sounds like a skeevy salesman's tactic, but it's essentially leveraging your relationships and and that component of trust that Natalie brought up earlier to get buy-in from other people to
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Again, if you're in an organizational cult culture that doesn't value evidence-based practice or doesn't value best practices, talking about that.
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Why don't we value best practices?
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Um, you know, really trying to shift the narrative and shift the conversation to get buy-in around why best practices are important for the entire organization.
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For the rest of the episode
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I really want to spend some time talking with Shauna and Sarah about your roles uh and give us some examples of what you have done.
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Um, so we didn't really clarify this at the beginning, but both Shauna and Sarah are in positions of middle management doing this job right now.
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