Think. Decide. Do. Learn.
During our recruitment sessions for first-time people leaders, I frequently encounter the question, “What are we looking for in a candidate?” Here are the four high level things I am looking for in a candidate.
Small Joys
Today I had the privilege of presenting to our Clinical Leaders Course - our three-day professional development programme for clinical leaders. Now on our tenth cohort, we have built the programme to specifically address the challenges faced by clinical leaders in our health system.
Technology tools for productivity
The Pew Research Center surveyed 1000 American adults and ended up following up with 535 who were working full or part time on the technologies they use for their work. Here are the results.
Essential Skills for Employees
What are the essential soft skills for students entering the workplace? The Thirdspace project think they have the answer. They make the argument that soft skills are important and apply as equally to MBA and Engineering students as it does to employees in most modern organizations.
Six Tools of Managers
Over the last several months I have been reflecting on the nature of “management” and what managers really do. Management has been described interns of essential function (Planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating, and controlling) - this described what needs to be done. But how to go about giving effect to those function is another question. Another frame of reference is French and Raven's basis of power. French and Raven's is a more academic approach based on the application of power.