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Comment on: Hospital chief executive role for Matthew Kershaw
Congratulations to Matthew and to BSUH - sounds like a good team and it would be good to show them some real support.
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Comment on: Chief executive resigns at Midlands trust
@Anonymous 11:19 We recognise that some roles are difficult to fill. The NHS Leadership Academy is addressing the conditions that need to be in place for successful approaches to developing talent. This includes systems, processes, tools, culture and behaviours. We are working in partnership with the system and building on the excellent work of talent management across the country. The challenges that lie ahead can only be met by creating resilient, visionary, agile and high performing leaders for now and in the future. More on our website here: http://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/discover/talent-management-approaches/
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Comment on: Military-style leadership doesn't suit the public sector
@NHSLeadership - Insightful article. The Academy’s leadership development work is modelled on the notion that new leadership styles are required in order to meet current and future challenges based on engagement with staff at all levels and building relationships across systems. Our Leadership Framework provides a consistent approach to leadership development for all staff in health irrespective of discipline, role, or seniority and represents the standard for leadership behaviours that all staff should aspire to. Find out more here: www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/discover/leadership-framework
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Comment on: More management, less leadership please
Deputy Managing Director and Head of Programmes, Karen Lynas - Of course this isn't an either/or equation, it’s an 'and' discussion. Managers at all levels of the system need to develop their leadership abilities, enhancing what they already possess and developing new ways of leading that contribute to the delivery of better care and services. They also need support to develop expertise in the management role and we have neglected that somewhat – hence the development of the Academy core programmes. But leading people requires very different behaviours and skills to managing processes and systems. Depending on their role, great leaders may also require excellent management skills, but it does depend on their role and whether the technical aspect of their role is around management or clinical, finance, commissioning and so on. The management task is just the technical functional aspect of the role . With regard to the correlation between leadership development and the bottom line I think we should tread carefully. Of course leadership development needs to be evidence based, well evaluated and seen to have its intended impact. The NHS Leadership Academy will be commissioning evaluation and research to support that. But, if leadership is only about securing a stronger bottom line, we are in danger of learning nothing from Francis and what has gone before. How we do what we do (great leadership) is as crucial as what we do, now we are moving ever deeper into tough times and worsening challenges. If we abandon all we said we believed in about a different kind of leadership in favour of more of the same performance management, bottom line focus and aggressive processes controls, then we obviously never meant it in the first place. @KarenLynas2012
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Comment on: Nurses need freedom to do their jobs properly
We are currently developing our Nursing and Midwifery leadership development programmes. Some more information on the course contents here along with questions to help shape this. Thanks. http://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/grow/nurse-leadership-development-programmes/
