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How to get ahead when life’s not 'fair': whine less, do more
Once we get over whining because ‘life isn’t fair’ – we can become more effective at influencing others, making a positive difference! Have you ever worked with someone who incessantly whined about how unfair things are, how bad, how wrong or how irrational?Article 31 Jul 2015
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Create your own virtual water cooler: how to harness technology to build global team spirit
How often have you leaned across your desk or paused in an office doorway to ask a colleague a question? Or raised your eyebrows at a team member, during a meeting with a tricky client, in silent, supportive communication?Article 24 Jul 2015
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Rose Review - What's the big deal?
The Rose Review examined the leadership in hospital Trusts and CCGs and made recommendations on how NHS leadership should be strengthened to deliver the Five Year Forward View.
- Outcomes
- Quality improvement
- Standards
Briefing 23 Jul 2015 -
Agents for Change: What junior doctors need to know about interactions with industry, transparency and competing interests
Interactions between healthcare professionals and industry contribute to improved patient care through medical innovation, research and education. However, conflicts of interest that compromise patient care may arise unexpectedly.Audio/Video 22 Jul 2015
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Professional standards for surgeons
Two new guides from the the Royal College of Surgeons of England: 'Good surgical practice' sets out the standards for all surgeons, regardless of specialty, grade or whether they practise in the NHS or in the private sector; 'Duty of candour' provides guidance on both the professional and the statutory duty of candour for surgeons and their employers.
- Quality improvement
- Standards
Other publication 17 Jul 2015 -
Leaders wear cardigans
The world’s biggest supercomputer is a big deal. We met the managers and leaders from the Japanese company Fujitsu involved in this huge project. It was striking how down-to-earth they were. The Fujitsu team were not classic Silicon Valley material.Article 16 Jul 2015
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Is the glass ceiling a mindset issue?
A 2013 Harvard Law Review report noted that, although there has been progress in both the public and private sectors across the world towards balancing the gender gap in the boardroom, progress remains uneven.Article 16 Jul 2015
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Doing coproduction
“Coproduction is an idea whose time has come… people’s needs are better met when they are involved in an equal and reciprocal relationship with professionals and others, working together to get things done.”
- Culture
- Quality improvement
Audio/Video 9 Jul 2015 -
The #1 joykiller and how to avoid it
If you don't ask yourself the tough personal questions, you'll never change. If you do, you will. Learn what those questions are and how to ask them in just two minutes a day! So, what is the #1 joy killer today?
- Culture
- Development
Article 9 Jul 2015 -
Agents for Change: Speak up with power!
The webinar provided an overview of the need for training in professional decision making and shared decision making to give confidence, knowledge and tools to junior doctors and allied health professionals to speak up.
- Culture
Audio/Video 2 Jul 2015 -
Are you playing your hand or are you being played?
What we become is in very large part the result of how we, and in some cases if we, choose to use the talents we were born with, learn from the experiences we have, and apply that learning along the way. It’s just about that simple.
- Development
Article 4 Jun 2015 -
Leaders are humble, Mr Blatter
Humility is not a word often associated with modern leaders. Indeed, a humble leader is almost a contradiction in terms. But it shouldn’t be. You only have to consider the recent shenanigans at FIFA, the world governing body of football to see this.
- Culture
- Development
Article 4 Jun 2015 -
The eighth deadly sin of leadership
If there is ever an opportunity to add in an eighth deadly sin, then I am putting my hand up to nominate 'assumption'. In my experience, assumption is already the #1 business and workplace sin; the destroyer of deals, the terroriser of team dynamics.
- Culture
Article 1 Jun 2015 -
Time to think – how to generate fresh ideas and new thinking to bring about radical change
Time to think, a methodology developed by Nancy Kline, is based on the premise that the quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first, and the quality of our thinking depends on how we are treated when we are thinking. Watch the webinar.Audio/Video 22 May 2015
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Lessons learnt…
The final webinar in the Better Training, Better Care Programme (BTBC) looked back at the lessons learnt throughout the project. Dr Nikki Kaanani, GP, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management QI lead, revisited the previous sessions and summed up the lessons learnt.
- Culture
- Quality improvement
Audio/Video 21 May 2015 -
The 'Doctor who' medical leadership series
The report draws on findings from a survey into leadership in the NHS and HayGroup's experience of working with healthcare leaders to explore why medical leadership succession planning and talent management is such a big challenge.
- Culture
- Development
Other publication 11 May 2015 -
Lilly lecture 2015
Professor Michael West, senior fellow at The King’s Fund, delivered this year’s Lilly lecture – on Leading cultures that deliver high quality care – to an audience of esteemed guests including royal college presidents, academics, senior doctors, trainees and medical students.
- Culture
Audio/Video 10 May 2015 -
Four reasons we settle for 'good enough'
The moment we stop striving and begin to coast on our good reputation – this is the perilous moment when we settle for “good enough.” And, this is the moment that, at best, change stops and, at worst, we revert back to our old ways.
- Development
Article 5 May 2015 -
Leaders change things
Leaders are rarely recruited to maintain the status quo. When they are it is often a recipe for disaster. Probably the best example of this is the recruitment of David Moyes to follow the hugely successful tenure of Sir Alex Ferguson as manager of the football club Manchester United.Article 4 May 2015
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Systems leadership and organisational culture
The webinar looked at ‘Make Every Moment Count’ - a pilot project which sought to address the gap between learning from everyday recognised problems and everyday practice.
- Culture
- Quality improvement
Audio/Video 1 May 2015