Change in the time of COVID : determining how a Lived Experience Circle On Homelessness adapts their team development model / Kyleen Myrah, Kerry Rempel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myrah, Kyleen, author.

Rempel, Kerry, author.

Series:

SAGE Business cases.

SAGE Business cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homelessness--British Columbia--Case studies.

Homelessness.

Teams in the workplace--Case studies.

Teams in the workplace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals, 2022.

Summary:

A common issue facing organizations today is how to create effective teams that are able to manage change and remain productive during times of instability. Under normal circumstances this is a challenging task, but the level of difficulty increases when the members of the team are demographically diverse and have lived experiences of homelessness, past addictions, and trauma. If this weren't challenging enough, add the complexity of building a new team during a global pandemic that restricts movement, isolates already marginalized team members, and effectively severs key forms of communication. This is the situation facing the members of the Lived Experience Circle on Homelessness (LECoH) led by Gerard Joyal. In this undisguised case based on actual events, Joyal describes how in the course of two days the LECoH team moved from holding interviews for new members and feeling excited about the prospects of having additional people join the group to continue their vital work, to a scenario where it was unclear how the group would continue.The case details how the community of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada strove to embed the voice of lived experience individuals into every aspect of their plan to functionally end homelessness. The case discusses how the LECoH team was formed and how the structure evolved and developed, and identifies the key elements that led to successes for the group. It discusses how group norms were created and maintained and how they intended to continue to build those norms with the future members. Now Joyal and the remaining LECoH members must devise a way to have the voice of lived experience continue to drive the system change forward during a time when those experiencing homelessness or those individuals on the cusp of homelessness are most at risk. Their team has never been more necessary, nor more vulnerable.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5297-9496-X

9781529794960

OCLC:

1289627078