Reflections – Finding leadership in the process and not the goal by Shefali Parikh The last eight months as a Clinical Leadership Fellow have been an absolute rollercoaster – ups and downs with a tangible fear of falling off. I hated the fellowship year to start […]
Reflections – In the Eye of the Hurricane by Ahmed El-Mansouri Today I sat with a colleague at lunch. Inevitably, the topic of Covid-19 reared its head. He fell into the camp of people who had flourished in the eye of the storm. ‘Every day I […]
Episode 4 – The Builder Summary of Episode We often apply to be the newest member of an already functioning unit. Brilliant! Easy! But a good leader is one able to build one of those high functioning units. Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder, suggested the two-pizza rule. […]
Episode 3 – The Treasurer Summary of Episode Money talks. Without a thorough understanding of resource management, a project is unlikely to survive. Business Model Canvas Business plans are lengthy, complicated and vital. Difficult to write but even more difficult to envisage, sometimes a more concise […]
Episode 2 – The Planner Summary of Episode Visionary leadership is a style described by Daniel Goleman and colleagues in the book Primal Leadership. It is described as a leader who propels the team towards a shared vision. Guiding them to a final destination without explicitly […]
Episode 1 – The Negotiator Summary of Episode We have grown so accustomed to being told what the deal is upfront that negotiation is one of the skills that has fallen out of many of our repertoires. A survey of various companies throughout the USA in […]
Be a Listener, Be a Leader by Ahmad El-Mansouri Leadership is an abstract concept. Everyone wants to be a good leader, yet very few people can define what that is. We find ourselves thinking of examples, but ultimately there is not one singular formula. Nevertheless, there are definitely […]
Navigating the Minefield Rachael Palmer Being a student nurse is akin to running through a burning building and making it out alive. It’s only when you look back at the house in flames that it truly dawns on you how amazing it is that you survived… …okay, maybe […]
Reflections on being a S.T.U.D.E.N.T Charlotte Jakab-Hall I have now been a registered (adult) nurse for just under two years, and find myself looking back on my time as a student nurse (StN) very fondly, and with great pride. It is undoubtedly one of the hardest things I have […]
Drawing by example. How Parkinson’s awareness is changing in the NHS Jonny Acheson I was 41 years old and things seemed to be falling into place. I had been a Consultant in the Emergency Department at Leicester Royal Infirmary since 2009 and things were starting to happen. The Education […]