Let's get real Guide for Managers and Leaders

This Let’s get real Guide for Managers and Leaders provides guidance for you, in the mental health and addiction sector, to use the enablers (tools and learning modules) that support implementation of Let’s get real in your organisation and teams. As with all Let’s get real framework resources, you are encouraged to ‘pick and mix’ from this material in a way that fits with your organisational needs. It is intended that Let’s get real has a practical focus, and is easy to understand and use in different contexts. This guide will assist you in realising this intention.

As the reader of this guide, you may be in one of several leadership or management roles, including as a:

• chief executive
• clinical leader
• consumer advisor
• family and whānau advisor
• general manager
• human resource manager
• operational manager
• planner and funder
• professional advisor
• quality manager
• service leader
• team leader

The information in this guide is intended to:

• provide an understanding of Let’s get real and the enablers
• outline practical suggestions for how Let’s get real can be implemented within and across services
• offer guidance for managing the process of change, which will ultimately be associated with implementing Let’s get real within your organisation and teams
• provide some practical resources and links to further information that you may use or adapt when planning and implementing Let’s get real
• answer common questions that have arisen concerning Let’s get real and its implementation.

Please note that this guide must be read in conjunction with the Let’s get real Overview, available from www.tepou.co.nz/letsgetreal. Microsoft Word versions of all templates in this guide are available on the Let’s get real implementation CD or from Te Pou’s website, www.tepou.co.nz/letsgetreal.