All articles by Anne Axford – Page 2
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On coaching and interference
I’m part way through a coaching qualification. I’m learning a lot about others, but a whole lot more about myself! I’m not going to get into definitions of coaching, counselling and mentoring (that’s another whole blog on its own) but one of the fundamentals is that the agenda needs to ...
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What on earth is MBTI?
“I’m ENTP – I’m guessing you are ESFJ – but what do you think J Is? ISTJ or INTP?” What on earth is this gibberish? If you’ve never been “MBTI’d” it will mean absolutely nothing. If you have – you will immediately be leaping to a set of information about ...
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BlogsPowerpoint presentations
“Beware of anyone who says that they're "just going to talk to some slides" - because that's exactly what they'll do - without realising that they're spending most of their time with their backs to the audience.” So says Max Atkinson, author of “Speech making and Presentations made easy”, in ...
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Talent Management
How can we recruit and retain the very best people for the NHS? David Nicholson said in the foreword to “Inspiring leaders; leadership for quality” that it was imperative to align work on leadership with achievement on quality. He describes it as “Leadership with a purpose”. So how to ...
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To coach or not to coach…
There’s many different forms of coaching, from the informal, “water cooler” conversation, through manager coaching to more formal internal or external coaching. Coaching as a style of management is now accepted as effective, but there is a growing trend towards formal coaching, because of the growing evidence of its ...
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Mental Health Diet
The power of positive thinking – is your glass half full or half empty? You can choose your mood, and control your state of mind to improve outcomes for yourself and those around you. Is this just so much mumbo-jumbo, or is there something in it?
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The future of nursing and midwifery
As a commission looks at what skills and competencies nurses and midwives need for the future, Martha Lane Fox tells the NHS what it was like to be on the receiving end of the NHS following a major accident. Do nurses need a degree? What makes a good nurse? And ...
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number crunching leadership
Leading and managing by numbers - or how to find a set of theories, skills, disciplines, habits or principles to fit whatever your burning issue is today.
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Disney and the NHS
Should the NHS emulate the Disney Corporation? Can we learn from the giants in the service industries in how we deliver services, and is there a holy grail in getting it right?
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Looking Out, Not Up
How do we know if we are getting it right? Is it meeting targets? The people who really know whether our services are good or bad are the people who receive them.
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Being Bold
In the current economic climate, cutting training budgets is an easy way to make savings, but is it really false economy?
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BlogsChallenging Mediocrity
How do we know what makes a good leader? If we are to make a difference, then we have to be more than “good enough”.
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