How to create time and space for your team to think and share ideas

How to create time and space for your team to think and share ideas

Leadership is about knowing how to build the best teams, how to get quality thinking and quality decision making from them. It is about creating and shaping change, thinking for yourself and enabling a workforce that is able to rise to the challenge. To do that however requires crafting an environment where people feel valued, where they know they are not going to be interrupted.

An introduction to the 10 components of a Thinking Environment by Nancy Kline

Developed by:
NHS Leadership Academy as part of the revised Edward Jenner programme

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Course content

  • Introducing 10 components
  • 1. Attention
  • 2. Equality
  • 3. Ease
  • 4. Appreciation
  • 5. Encouragement
  • 6. Feelings
  • 7. Information
  • 8. Diversity
  • 9. Incisive Questions
  • 10. Place
  • Making Time to Think
  • Feedback