All Careers development articles – Page 14
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: The 80 Minute MBA
Be a master of business administration in less than the length of a train journey
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CommentNicky Spencer on building a high performing team
Attention on world class organisations, productive services and talent management, together with a natural inclination to safeguard our own roles and careers, could leave a crucial building block neglected: the team.
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HSJ KnowledgeMake meetings more effective with mind mapping
Mind mapping is a simple technique that helps you ensure meetings work in your favour, says Constance Lamb
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CommentPete Mason on avoiding staff conflict
Staff conflict will be an unavoidable by-product of what promises to be a testing 2010
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: The Goal
This book gives us management theory in story format, says Hannah Lowry
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CommentSteve Preston on using social networking to boost your career
By getting yourself known on the web, you can develop key contacts and advance your career.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS joint appointments: are two heads better than one?
Joint appointments are on the increase across health and care organisations. Carmel Gibbons looks at why
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NewsPCT benefits from ambitious knowledge and skills framework redesign
A Yorkshire primary care trust has successfully transformed the knowledge and skills framework into a tool to aid workforce planning and boost productivity.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Shackleton’s Way
Witness leadership skills in this great Antarctic adventurer, says Julie Wells
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NewsNottingham trust named best in NHS for gay and lesbian staff
Five NHS organisations appeared in the annual list of the UK’s top 100 lesbian, gay, and bisexual friendly employers, published by charity Stonewall.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to eliminate bullying from the NHS
The pressure to drive performance can too easily turn a well intentioned manager into a bully, warns Jenny Rogers. NHS organisations must get rid of the blame culture
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Three Moves Ahead
Learn business tactics from the chess board, recommends Rupert Wainwright
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS productivity: how to maximise the year ahead
Health and social care services need to fully engage frontline staff, not just leaders, to meet financial constraints while safeguarding quality delivery. Phil Kenmore explains
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HSJ KnowledgeAssessment centres: do your staff measure up?
A London foundation trust used assessment centres to ensure its frontline managers were on-message and up to the job. This is how they did it
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CommentSheila Williams on communication and metaphors
Over the past few weeks, I ran into a brick wall with a project, burned the candle at both ends and then saw the light at the end of the tunnel.
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CommentJon Restell: could the NHS ever be like this?
People tell me I am good at predictions, so here is my month by month forecast for 2010.
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CommentNHS Top Leaders: cream of the crop rises to the top
The Top Leaders programme is nearly ready to finish identifying the leaders it believes have the greatest potential to make an impact on care in the NHS
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Calm at Work
Little book has plenty to offer despite a few oddities, says Hannah Lowry
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CommentPete Mason on multiple leadership styles
What makes a good leader? There are several schools of thought. Should a leader be reserved like Gordon Brown, or gregarious like Tony Blair; quietly dignified like Bobby Moore, or in your face like John Terry; boisterous like Alan Sugar, or overfamiliar like David Brent?
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HSJ KnowledgeHow NHS trusts can raise their overall performance
Upping overall performance is a shared task, say Peter Noble and colleagues