Reflection is an essential skill for a leader. It sustains you, develops you and untimely it’s how you learn. It doesn’t have to be complicated or overly time-consuming. The investment has huge payoffs. This post explores 4 of these, plus a simple tool you can use.

If you’ve got a lot of meetings on your plate, where do you start? Your 1:1 meetings with your direct reports are going to have the biggest impact on all your targets, outcomes and impact. In fact, they maybe, your most important meeting.

How do back-to-back meetings make you feel? Important? Needed? How much control do you actually have and how much would questions about the meeting purpose be welcomed?
Using the SCARF model as a reflective tool to consider the phenomenon of back-to-back meetings and ask - could you do something differently?

Have you got a personal advisory board? What is it and why as a leader in healthcare do you need one.

The moments of welcome matter. Starting a relationship, a meeting or a first encounter is your first step to creating a relationship built on trust and connection.

The challenges feel huge and I believe small steps every day will get us there. Where I think it starts is with trust, building it and keeping it.