Search Tag: Leadership
Servant leadership: A journey, not a race
2017 19 Sep
Servant leadership offers a fresh approach to meeting the critical leadership challenges of contemporary healthcare organisations, while honouring the humanity of everyone they touch. The terms of the work world have changed. Employee expectations and organisational mandates have shifted. In order to be successful and relevant in this environment,... Read more
How to energise collaborative thinking: 5 tips to trash bad habits
2017 19 Sep
For better team cooperation and project success, ‘collaborative thinking’ could be the way to go. Two heads are better than one”. This couldn't be more accurate. I've always been a fan of working in a collaborative way: involving your team, sharing your thoughts and ideas with as many people as possible and getting different perspectives and inputs.... Read more
Andy Rogers
2017 19 Sep
President (2016-2018)- British Institute of Radiology, UK Thomas Watson, IB M President 1943 said: “I think there is a world market for maybe5 computers”. Never try to predict what might happen! What is your top management tip? Management is different from leadership! Leadership - have a vision that is shared with your team and lead from the... Read more
From command and control to modern approaches to leadership
2017 15 Sep
Historical command and control approaches to leadership fail in building relationships and engendering engagement and thus do not enhance performance like modern approaches to leadership. Historically, leadership in medicine was taught and practised in an approach akin to the military paradigm of command and control. It was believed that given the... Read more
Safety culture
2017 12 Sep
Creating a culture of safety within an organisation will have more chance of being successful when its leadership is totally involved. This has been shown by the experiences of Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston and the Seattle-based Virginia Mason Health System.Clinical representation on the board of directors is critical for a health system... Read more
Top Tips for Successful Lab Management
2017 05 Sep
A research lab is where big discoveries are made. Like a business entity, a laboratory can be successful and achieve its goals if it's managed well. Lab-management skills, while used every day by scientists, are not directly taught to young scientists. Rather, they are learned secondhand.Management skills are important for science careers of all types.... Read more
Great Leaders Embrace Conflict
2017 21 Aug
Are you seeing the potential benefits of conflict at work, or simply the pitfalls? Chris was a brilliant and gifted practitioner. Well qualified. Hard working. Very experienced. Loved by everyone - clients and colleagues, as well as friends and family. Chris was very generous at work, always happy to lend a hand or be a trusted and insightful sounding... Read more
How to Make Sense of Digital Chaos
2017 21 Aug
What it Takes to be a Leader in the Digital Age In a world of fierce competition, digital projects have become an omnipresent challenge. While 75% of all businesses will be digital businesses or preparing to become one by 2020, software will disrupt virtually all traditional industries. In the face of a global economy that is in a state of flux, instability... Read more