Supporting People Who Are Having A Tough Time With Mark Simms - Radical Reformers Podcast

This episode is with Mark Sims, the Chief Executive of the P3 Group. He describes P3 as an organisation that supports people who are having a "tough time" and he doesn't like putting labels on people. This really gives you an idea of the sort of leader Mark is and the sort of organisation P3 is. P3 are particularly active in supporting people who don't have a place to live and Mark sets out housing situation we find ourselves in and what some of the drivers are. For P3's work to be successful, Mark's team need to be able to collaborate with other service providers within the public sector or other third sector and private organisations - so he talks about how his team are empowered to work across organisational boundaries and to collaborate. The ambition of P3 is to find people somewhere to live, someone to love and something to do. Mark explains how when they're reviewing how successful they are as an organisation, it's not looking at growth metrics, it's not looking at numbers of contracts, numbers of staff. They ask themselves, are we living, are we loving, are we doing? And I think that's really powerful. For many organisations, taking that approach rather than just looking at the metrics would give them a much better idea of how successful they are. For any of you who know Mark, you'll know this will be a brilliant conversation and it really is. I enjoyed it and I learned a lot from it.