We are so pleased to welcome RCOT new Chair of council Odeth Richardson as she hosts her first OTalk – She wants to hear from you this is your opportunity to engage with a person who is in a positions of influence.

Here is what Odeth has to say;

One of my election promises is to re-engage the membership as it was felt some Occupational Therapists were disconnected from the professional body. The past few years have been pretty challenging for all of us and recovery from this will take time. I know priorities have changed during the pandemic (mine certainly have) and so I wanted to reach out to the membership to try and understand what matters to them. Are we meeting your needs at the RCOT?

Two way communication is important and we would love to hear from you about the things that we are not getting right. How can these be improved? It’s equally important that we know the things that are working well. Engagement will differ for individuals and so we need a variety of ways that will be available to our members.

At our last council meeting we spent some time thinking about the following questions.

What does meaningful or good engagement from our members look like? 

If we manage engagement well, what will be different? 

How do we best measure, track and analyse meaningful engagement? 

This #OTalk session will help us to gain valuable insight from you our members and will support us in developing an Engagement strategy that will better reflect your needs.

Read more about Odeth here

POST CHAT

Host:  Odeth Richardson @OdethRichardson

Support on OTalk Account: Helen @Helen_OTUK

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