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Vanguard and Kingston University Course

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Will you take the opportunity to improve people’s lives and significantly reduce costs?
Pioneers across public services are achieving large financial savings and remarkable improvements in service by thinking radically about People Centred Systems. Listen to practitioners talk about results they have achieved using the Vanguard Method.
There are practical steps you need to take to improve people-centred services and dramatically reduce costs. The Vanguard Method and Kingston University London People Centred Services course will show you how. The module is accredited at Post Graduate Level 7 and worth 30 credits.
“The best course I’ve undertaken in my 17 years in Local Government.  It’s an approach that has made me completely rethink how I will plan the review, design and development of services and systems within and across my organisation and has provided me with a practical and logical way to go about it.” Ceri Armstrong, Senior Health and Social Care Development Manager, Adult Social Care, Thurrock Council (studied on Cohort 6 of the course)
“I have thoroughly enjoyed the course and learnt far more than I expected. It’s made a huge difference in that before the course I felt I had some/reasonable understanding of the Vanguard Method but was a little uncertain about whether I understood it sufficiently to fundamentally change the way my organisation works. Now I have the confidence/knowledge to make those changes. I have no hesitation in recommending the course and will do so to anyone I can.” Nigel Lucas, CEO at The Charity of Elizabeth Jane Jones
The course has been taught entirely online during the pandemic, whereas previously students were required to visit each other’s systems and the Kingston University campus. We will confirm the final arrangements for October closer to the start date. The course has a restricted intake so an early application is advised.
Register an interest
To register an interest in this course, please contact charlotte.pell@vanguardconsult.co.uk
Find out more about the course in the module guide.

Thank you for joining John Seddon’s book tour

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Thank you for joining us on Tuesday 9th March 2021 from 10am until 11am GMT, John looks forward to seeing you at the Beyond Command and Control webinar.

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We will send you the Zoom webinar link on Monday 8th March and a reminder to join shortly before the webinar is due to start on Tuesday 9th March.

What you need to take part

To join the webinar, you need a laptop, computer, smart phone or tablet with a connection to the internet. You don’t need any other special software or equipment.

About the event:

Covid cancelled the second half of John’s book tour. Given what’s going on, we’d like to invite you to a final book tour event on 9th March 2021 hosted by John on Zoom.

Join us for an eye-opening and entertaining talk, with the opportunity to buy a signed copy of John’s latest book, Beyond Command and Control, at half price.

This book offers to solve the UK productivity conundrum, dramatically improve health and care services while reducing their cost and much more besides. And it is no promise or dream; it is evidenced by those who have followed John’s prescription, which is to change the way they think about management.

As well as covering familiar ground in an unfamiliar way this book says more about the ‘how’ of change and the need for whole-system change in our service organisations, in other words, what is the new role for HR, Finance and IT? John also takes on Agile, the most dysfunctional of fads, to point out its fallacies and describe how to design digital services that work without any of the rituals, roles and new-speak that Agile has brought. And more besides…

As ever, John’s philosophy is challenging, innovative and inspiring. Most of all, it works!

There will be an opportunity to ask John questions.