The future for compassionate leadership | Michael West
A webinar delivered by Michael West focusing on what we have learned during the pandemic in regard to compassionate leadership and how we can take this forward to enhance practise in the future.
A suite of leadership offers to help your team lead compassionately and inclusively during these extraordinary times. This includes:
- Coaching and mentoring for leaders
- Leadership support circles
- 10 evidence-based behaviours for leading through Covid-19.
Radically Reinventing Social Systems | Hilary Cottam | World Economic Forum
Hilary Cottam applies a human-centred design approach to reimagining social systems for the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Lessons from the Wigan Deal | Kings Fund
Since 2011, Wigan Council has embarked on a major process of change involving moving towards asset-based working at scale, empowering communities through a ‘citizen-led’ approach to public health and creating a culture which permits staff to redesign how they work in response to the needs of individuals and communities. At the heart of this is an attempt to strike a new relationship between public services and local people that has become known as the ‘Wigan Deal’.
Waters Centre For System Thinking – Habits of a System Thinker
The Habits of a System Thinker describe the best way of thinking about how systems work and how actions can impact results seen over time.
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How system thinking enhances system leadership
This article written by Catherine Hobbs and Gerald Midgley, Centre of System Studies at the University of Hull outlines a whole series of system thinking tools, frameworks and approaches.
Improving flow along care pathways – learning from the Flow Coaching Academy
This report, which is based on the formative FCA evaluation completed in 2019 by RAND Europe and interviews with FCA programme leads during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusses on how the programme is planned, designed and implemented. It looks at:
- how local flow coaching academies have been set up
- how coaches have been selected and trained
- how care pathways have been chosen
- how pathway teams have approved planning and delivering improvement
This learning could be valuable to national and regional organisations, system leaders and improvement practitioners involved in commissioning, planning and delivering improvement programmes within the NHS.
Leadership resources – Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
Resources have been collated to support leadership development at all levels and in all forms, based on the recommendations of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists members. Each section pulls together a selection of materials which offer starting points, reflective pieces and key resources on different aspects of leadership.
Cracking the Code of Sustained Collaboration – Six new tools for training people to work better
This blog written by Frances Gino outlines six training techniques that enable both leaders and employees to work well, learn from one another, and overcome psychological barriers that get in the way of doing both.
Conversations about a collaborative society with Professor Donna Hall and Lord Victor Adebowale. Available on Apple podcasts.
This podcast with Donna Hall, former Chief Executive of Wigan Council and Wigan CCG, Donna describes why she thinks the Wigan Deal is a blue print for public services and organisations of the future, what this means for the culture and practice of councils, and the type of leadership to oversee this change.
The principles of system leadership – being comfortable with the chaos
This report by The Kings Fund draws on the experiences of 10 senior leaders to look in depth at the skills needed to be a system leader. The 10 individuals are from different backgrounds and work in different contexts, and give some very candid reflections on their successes and failures. But they share a track record of having tried to bring about change (not always successfully) through using ‘soft’ power, enabling others to see and deliver the changes that are needed.
Supporting integration through new roles and working across boundaries
This report looks at the evidence on new roles and ways of spanning organisational workforce boundaries to deliver integrated health and social care.
