AMBIT Basic Training Day 3 (AMBIT Leads)

11th September 2015
The third day of this training is for the AMBIT lead(s) within the team. It is often helpful if this role is taken by two people in the team so often two people from each team attend this training day.

The learning objectives of this day are to:
  1. Provide an opportunity to consider the AMBIT lead role in your team
    1. The AMBIT Lead - role and responsibilities
    2. AMBIT LEADS - useful training pages gives a lot of useful pointers to learning for AMBIT Leads.
  2. Become familiar with the manual
    1. Using the Manual
  3. Plan a training event for you to facilitate in your team
    1. Planning a training event in your team
  4. Practice manualizing as a team process
    1. Manualization
  5. pair up AMBIT Leads as part of the AMBIT Lead peer-to-peer system

The approximate plan for the day: (please check for specific timings of your training)

  • 09:00 Coffee,
  • 09.15 Registering and logging on to local manuals.
  • 10.00 Introductions and planning the day:
    • Group discussions:
      • What are the influences on how practitioners actually behave in their day to day work? - remembering the other (larger) influences on behaviour, and reminding ourselves about the notion of one's AMBIT.

      • What are the key training outcomes for your service?
  • 10.45 How do your services link together?
    • Sculpting out the relationships and authority in the team.
  • 11.00 What is an AMBIT lead?
  • 11.30 Coffee
  • 11.45 Getting familiar with Using the Manual
    • Finding your way around - use Tour of Manual video
      • finding text e.g. how do you inject safely?; What's the evidence base treatment for BPD?
      • Find a page you're interested in from another team's manual and clone it to your manual
      • Find out how to embed videos into your manual
      • finding videos e.g. how to edit in the manual?
      • Sharing material - using SNAPSHOTs
      • Opening a new tiddler (page)
      • Add a sub topic to the AMBIT Lead roles and responsibilities page, create smart goals for yourselves as ambit leads,
      • writing some text (Edit) Editing conventions
  • 12.45 Lunch
  • 1.30 Thinking about the training needs of your team
  • 2.15 The manualization sequence Manualization
    • Role play the sequence from problem, team discussion, ideas, agreeing, recording: How to do team manualization
    • Whole group discussion on what can be written in a public forum. i.e. if team is very conflicted over an issue, would you want to be explicit about this.
  • Consider the AMBIT Lead peer-to-peer system
  • 3.15 Tea
  • 3.30 Planning your work in the team
  • 4.00 Reflections on the day
  • 4.30 Finish