25th January 2024
‘It’s All About People’ Champions
January 2024 has seen the launch of our new ‘It's All About People' champions initiative. We have identified approximately 50 individuals throughout Lincolnshire who have demonstrated their passion and commitment to working in a personalised and strengths based way. These champions will promote personalisation and strengths-based approaches and will play a vital role by sharing knowledge, supporting peers, and contributing to a positive culture change. The role does not mean any additional work for our champions as such, it just involves continuing to put ‘people’ at the heart of everything they do and therefore being a role model to others and influencing behaviour change. We are also hoping to get our champions together regularly so that they can support one another too.
The response to our initial email informing people of their nomination has been overwhelmingly positive which is fantastic. Some of the comments we have received are:
“This is so lovely, thank you for letting me know and yes of course I would be honoured to be a champion to support the ongoing work.”
“Thank you for the email today, you made my day, and I would be very honoured to be a Personalisation Champion.”
“Many thanks for the email below and I would love to become involved in this initiative – please count me in.”
“'It's All About People Champions' sounds really exciting and I would love to be a part of this.”
“This looks amazing! I would love to be a champion.”
“The honour is accepted and welcomed!!”
“Oh how wonderful, thank you so much! I’ll wait to hear from you – but that’s made my day.”
“Count me in! Thank you for asking me.”
The initial champions who have been identified are only those who the Personalisation Team are aware of, we are sure there are more. We already have a range of different roles including practitioners, volunteers, heads of service and people with lived experience who have accepted the challenge, but we would love to have more. We know that there are many people who demonstrate the values of personalisation throughout Lincolnshire, some are doing this on their own, others are in larger supportive teams. If you want to nominate yourself or another person to become an ‘It’s all about People’ champion then please email alisonx.smith@lincolnshire.gov.uk initially.
In time we are aiming to have a champions page on our website which will include photographs and biographies for each of our champions. This will form a new network of people who can become messengers and support people to learn more about working in a more personalised way. You will start to see and hear more about the champions in our newsletters and podcasts too as they share some of their experiences. Keep an eye and ear out for more updates as this progresses. Once developed you will also be able to nominate new champions on the website too.
Anyone lucky enough to become an ‘It’s all about People’ champion’ will also receive one of our new badges below to add to their email signature, to really spread the word and show how proud they are to be a champion. What more could you ask for?
