All Leadership articles – Page 224
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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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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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Quality improvement and cost reduction
Classic strategies for major corporate turnaround have always included, among others, quality improvement and cost reduction.
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CommentKen Jarrold: what is the future of NHS regulation?
The row about regulation did not come at a good time for the NHS and it raises some profound questions. Just how likely is it that self assessment will be objective? How many of us have the capacity to see ourselves, our performance and the world around us as it ...
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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 KnowledgeHow NHS trusts can raise their overall performance
Upping overall performance is a shared task, say Peter Noble and colleagues
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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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NewsBoth regulators leaderless as Monitor fails to appoint chair
Attempts to find a successor for Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes have stalled, leaving both major NHS regulators without a permanent chair.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS managers on a mission in Sandhurst manoeuvres
The foundation trust regulator asked Sandhurst Academy to give managers an insight into the military ‘chain of understanding’. Helen Mooney reports for duty
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HSJ KnowledgeDo you have the traits of a trailblazer?
Productivity, optimism and innovation are all qualities that will fire up your teams to overcome obstacles. How do you measure up, asks Georgia McHardy
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NewsNo Bury and Salford PCT merger, states chief
The joint chief executive of Bury and Salford primary care trusts has ruled out a merger of the two, saying they are “culturally very distinct”.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins
Storytelling is a tool with many uses in the workplace, finds Iain Lang
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Leadership lessons
Chris Roebuck reports on the views from the NHS Employers conference
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to spot the NHS leaders of the future
With budget pressures escalating, organisations need to identify those worth developing as tomorrow’s leaders. Mike Hay explains the best way to do this
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CommentJenny Rogers on managing your manager
While millions of words are routinely given to the topic of managing subordinates, relatively few are ever devoted to how to manage upwards.
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CommentJon Restell: NHS managers on the ropes
Everyone I talk to assumes that managers in the health service must be sweating.
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SupplementsNHS leadership special report: taking the lead
We all know leadership matters. Leadership has been a neglected reform lever in the NHS but it is unacceptable for a business of our size and complexity not to have a systematic approach to developing it.
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NewsRose Gibb wins full right to appeal compensation claim
Rose Gibb has won the right to a full appeal hearing on her claim for compensation against her former employer, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust.
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HSJ KnowledgeTalent development: achieving mental toughness
In these demanding times talent development has a powerful tool at its disposal, says Judith Krichefski
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CommentKen Jarrold on motivating NHS managers
The latest annual health check ratings raise some important and difficult questions. It is time to think again about performance management.