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Bringing organisations together is bound to involve countless words, meetings and documents - and the chance of everyone understanding everything from the start is about as unlikely as a rain-free summer holiday.

It’s possible that you may have come to one of our free lunchtime events. A lot of people tell us that our Melting Pot Lunches are great. Fascinating speakers, interesting and involved participants. So if they ain’t broke - why are we fixing them?

How are common medical terms used by patients and clinicians? And what about the less common phrases found throughout health and care? David Haslam makes the case for some shared understanding.

A successful partnership depends on when and how to choose the right partner. In this guest blog, Jane Harris, CEO of I CAN, shares what she's learned from nearly 20 years of partnership working in the charity sector.

Rich Taunt looks at the future of events, sifting the virtual from the real, considers a hybrid approach, and proposes three tests for whether you should be swapping Zoom for a conference room.

What puts your blood pressure up? Me? I’m pretty placid most of the time, at least until I see a misplaced apostrophe or hear yet another interviewee on the radio start every response to every question with the irritatingly unnecessary word “So…”

What kind of leadership does health and care need right now? What support do people need to face the future with hope, agency and optimism? Catherine Russell and Rose Mosse explore leadership in complex and uncertain contexts.

A significant part of our work involves supporting health and social care organisations to design and deliver learning programmes. But the term ‘learning programme’ is quite hard to define. Lydia Paris breaks down how we help organisations to use learning to improve what they do.

Multisector collaborations for health are hard to evaluate. Corinne Armstrong was part of a team that looked at 12 multisector collaborations for health around the world. She explores what we can learn.

We want our organisations to behave as living systems, but we only know how to treat them as machines. Many of us will not be returning to our old ways of working so Matthew Frost asks where are the opportunities to get intentional, analytical and specific about strengthening relationships?