Notes for healthcare leaders
Welcome, this is where leadership meets heart, purpose, and practicality.
This blog dives into three vital areas: your own leadership growth, the dynamics of healthy, connected teams, and how to bring excellence into everyday operations.
Whether you’re leading in a ward, a department, or a moment of change—you’re in the right place.
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Seeing Beyond
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.
Absolutely your most important meeting: Increase your leadership impact with every 1:1 meeting
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.
Another day of meetings?
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?
Your personal advisory board
Have you got a personal advisory board? What is it and why as a leader in healthcare do you need one.
The difference a warm welcome makes
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.
Start with Trust
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.
The No Jedi Origin
Why is the weekly email I send fondly referred to as the No Jedi email and why do I think we could all use a little Star Wars wisdom from time to time.
Learning and Development when money is tight or the budget non-existent.
Discover the best platforms for healthcare workers to access free online courses to boost their skills and knowledge.
Personal Leadership Development
Explore insights and tools to lead with clarity, courage, and confidence—starting from within.
✨ Think: mindset, boundaries, wellbeing, habits, purpose, decision-making, energy management.
