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- “A free, online programme to develop aspiring leaders? Yes please!”
- Nurses must learn to lead
- “I believe leaders are essential in driving change in organisations, but it can’t be done alone”
- “We need inclusive leadership that reflects our diverse population.”
- “I am passionate about putting patients at the heart of everything we do.”
- Black history and the unfinished work of creating racial equity
- “During Black History Month, I try and honour those who have opened doors for me.”
- “Only by showing compassion to yourself can you have the reserve of energy to lead people well”
- “No one should be discriminated against or feel like they can’t bring their whole selves to work”
- “It’s time to take inclusion off the ‘nice to have’ list”
- “Is it time to make our learning intersectional?”
- “Speaking truth to power, we have some work to do on inclusion.”
- “Biphobia is very real, and it often feels a lot like invalidation.”
- “When Bevan finished, I entered a period of grieving.”
- “As a leader, you need to make sure you’re approachable by anyone at any level in any organisation.”
- “The programme made me feel like a superhero.”
- “You don’t need to be a manager to be a leader”
- “Be the person your younger self would have needed.”
- “Developing leadership skills needs to be a priority for all of us regardless of our title or position.”
- “As future leaders we want to be an instrument for change towards inclusion and equality within the NHS – the Stepping Up programme has helped us to believe that we can!”
- “The Ready Now programme tapped into the real me”
- Six ways the Aspiring chief executive programme is helping our chief executives
- Deaf Awareness Week 2019
- Tensions and expectations: what’s our real ask of trust chief executives?
- “In Regional Talent Boards, there’s a real sense of everyone uniting around a common cause.”
- “The Mary Seacole programme breaks you open and moulds you.”
- Leaders cannot claim to be compassionate if they’re not inclusive
- It’s getting personal
- 21st century healthcare requires professionally diverse teams
- “The programme has taught me how to own the change required for leadership success.”
- “Palliative care is about living as well as possible, for as long as possible.”
- “I would urge anyone considering applying for a leadership programme to just do it. Be brave and push yourself out of your comfort zone.”
- Having clarity of personal purpose has been my guiding star
- Our bodies in the work of inclusion
- Women in NHS
- Leadership development should be a lifelong seminar
- “Being trans is not a lifestyle choice”
- “I’m confident that I’m doing things that are right for the NHS, not just because someone has said they need to be done.”
- Learning to become a leader: a story of a student Speech and Language Therapist
- To be diverse is to be varied and colourful
- “Be ready to positively change the way you work and the way you think”
- Leaders who ‘perform’ on racial inclusion don’t fool BAME staff
- “We need to have the tenacity to face the difficult questions head on.”
- “I’d like to see an NHS where health professionals support patients to be the leaders of their own health care.”
- “Empathy and humility should be a mainstay of our daily routine, irrespective of where we lead from.”
- “Being nice is not enough to ensure inclusion”
- “It’s literally like starting all over again at every appointment.”
- Hello, My Name Is….What’s Your Name?
- “LGBT+ Deaf people still face discrimination from all directions”
- “If you’re thinking about applying for an Academy programme, you’re already halfway there!”
- “We need to become conscious of bias in order to reduce its impact.”
- “Diversity is not just the colour of your skin – it’s a mixture of everything the community has to offer”
- “My first experiences of nurse leadership”
- Developing the next generation of medical leaders
- “I now feel empowered and excited about the direction my career is heading”
- “Since completing the programme, l recognise that my core passion is the delivery of high-quality patient care.”
- Managing talent in the NHS: supporting all staff to fulfil their potential
- Why development shouldn’t be the exception to the rule – The Sir Peter Carr Award: inspiring the next generation of NHS leaders
- “My Edward Jenner journey has been one of enlightenment and discovery”
- “You’ll learn something but also create a valuable network.”
- “I hope through the programme I become a better manager for the NHS.”
- Opportunity in failure
- “Being open and honest is what we owe to our patients”
- The three barriers to leadership identity
- “Not on my watch”: owning inclusive leadership in practice
- How the Mary Seacole programme helped build a Trust wide network
- The Rainbow Alliance
- LGBT+ History Month 2018: Mapping the world
- Dancing the Tango of change in 2018
- “The Stepping Up programme is a life-changing experience and I will never be the same because of it.”
- “It’s about becoming the type of leader that can benefit patients and staff beyond your immediate portfolio”
- “The NHS benefits when staff can bring their whole selves to work”
- The equality equation that doesn’t add up
- “Graduating from the EGA and gaining the Masters in Healthcare Leadership was one of my proudest moments”
- “The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson programme helped me find my professional mojo”
- The Impact of Legacy
- “The experience will make me a better chief executive, and that’s what our patients and staff deserve.”
- We need to develop tomorrow’s leaders, today
- “The best personal development I have undertaken in 24 years in the NHS.”
- “Nobody should be scared to talk about race and diversity.”
- “This programme could be included in your personal development plan.”
- “I’m proud to say my health conditions didn’t stop me.”
- “The quality of my peers on the programme was phenomenal.”
- Empowering BME staff with an NHS Leadership Academy programme
- Eliminate the stigma of anxiety on World Mental Health Day
- “The role of the chief executive and other senior leaders is no longer the heroic individual but more akin to a conductor or facilitator of an orchestra of talent.”
- Supporting chief executives to build a better NHS
- The Mary Seacole programme has helped transform psychological therapies
- Daring to look: Complacency is the enemy of humanity
- Pride, Power and Personal Branding
- Race equality: great progress comes from great discomfort
- HOPE and aspirations
- Leadership Development as a Patient Leader
- “Don’t hoard your power to grow your ego; instead share it and develop others.”
- Improving staff engagement
- People want to be led by someone ‘real’
- “Thanks to the Ready Now programme I can hold my head high and not feel alone anymore”
- Trumping Care
- Effective leadership is critical if partnership working in STPs is to lead to better patient care
- Back to basics: why diversity and inclusion are critical to leading much-needed change in the NHS
- Junior doctors should start leadership development at medical school
- Being Michael West: Leadership in today’s NHS
- The most influential people in the NHS are frontline staff
- Being inclusive made me a more skilful midwife
- Spring training
- How the Nye Bevan programme is supporting STP leaders
- Basic management processes with big leadership impact
- Empowering leaders for the future of commissioning
- Visibility Generates Trust: Walking the talk as an inclusive leader
- Absorbing the shock
- ‘Thanks to the Edward Jenner programme I’ve now got the confidence and foundations to develop as a leader’
- Leadership and its impact on failures in care service delivery
- Rome wasn’t built in a day – and neither is a good leader!
- “As a black woman you have to work twice as hard to get to where you want to be”
- Ovarian Cancer: Nuala’s story
- Being the change you want to see
- Redefining the norm
- Being your whole self
- Empowering leaders on the frontline: why better leadership means better care
- Compassion and rhino skin: could you be an NHS executive?
- Return of the Heroes
- Winter NHS: leadership at the most critical time
- 2017: A new year for leadership
- Looking forward, looking back
- Leadership – the difference between ordinary and extraordinary
- Importance of the Patient voice for Nye Bevan programme participants
- How much do you know about fingerspelling?
- Getting ahead of the sustainability curve
- We must change the bullying culture in the NHS
- Celebrating Nye Bevan’s legacy 119 years on
- Resilience – and why it should not be essential
- A personal story of Black History within the NHS
- The six barriers to making leadership development in health a priority
- Black history for diverse futures
- BME leaders: we’ve got the will, now let’s get the way
- Leadership is an everyday event
- Participant experience on The Ready Now programme
- Thanks to the Academy I’ve grown and learnt so much this past year
- The twelve skills of the Public Sector Fox
- Can we really risk losing precious talent to BREXIT?
- Prioritising relationships above, below and across the system
- Are you changing a bullying culture or contributing to it?
- Thanks to the leadership programme – I was promoted and can make positive changes to patients’ lives
- The Age of the Public Sector Fox
- A good slug of leadership skill and an equal measure of management capability
- Investing in staff is the only way we’ll deliver better patient care
- Looking at the NHS – 68 years on
- Case study: Aspiring chief executive programme
- The childhood roots of leadership impact
- Four techniques that only public sector leaders can use
- The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson programme taught me about myself and the impact I have on others
- Public sector leadership
- Celebrating the legacy of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- Empowering young people in the NHS
- Inclusively talented
- A more diverse NHS
- The six C’s helping nurses on their leadership journey
- Supporting leaders at the top
- Neglecting staff engagement
- How great leaders inspire action
- Experiential design
- 8 ways to be a better manager
- Leadership needs to be less about hierarchy
- Out with the old
- Reflecting on the NHS Executive Fast Track programme
- Things you can’t learn from a book
- Creatures of habit
- Reflections: NHS Leadership Academy’s 1st annual conference
- United by our ideals rather than divided by our differences
- War stories
- Courageous stand for inclusion
- Why do you need Ready Now?
- Quiet
- Ready Now: A Personal Journey Leading to Discovery
- The best way to predict the future is to create it
- My personal story as an Anderson cohort
- Good, or liked?
- Transforming a system in Elizabeth Garrett Anderson style
- Silver lining
- The glass ceiling is only cracked – let’s smash it!
- Addressing the NHS top leadership challenge
- Imposter syndrome: how it makes NHS managers doubt their abilities
- 7 things NHS leaders need to know about the Rose review
- There is no dearth of talent in the NHS, we have it in diverse abundance
- Lead by example
- The strength in hope
- Museum of the NHS
- Nye Bevan and the NHS – 67 years on
- NHS: 67 years on – An American perspective
- Engaging People
- An Inclusive Future
- What can rainforests tell us about health and care leadership?
- This too shall pass
- See you and raise you
- An experience to remember
- NHS Change Day – Do OD video
- Happy Birthday Do OD
- Executive search agencies – another set of “snowy white peaks”?
- Freedom to Speak Up and the role of leadership
- Eyes up
- Leadership and equality of care
- “You reap what you sow” – my hopes for inclusion
- Inspiration for change
- What’s next after your leadership development?
- New year, renewed commitment
- A leadership journey to the Queen?
- Risk and courage
- Leadership development
- Let’s dream differently
- What did I learn from participating on the Mary Seacole programme?
- Values, attitudes and old dogs
- Awards, rewards, wards and frauds
- Courage
- The NHS at its best – and a hope for the rest
- Yesterday
- First impressions count
- Professionalisation of leadership
- Developing our NHS leaders
- Ready Now: positive action to realise the potential of senior BME leaders
- Valuing potential
- The power of those small acts of kindness
- Communicating as leaders
- From Genghis to Mary Seacole
- Can patients influence how the system engages with us? The patient as leader can!
- Are you feedback-friendly, or a feedback-free-zone?
- Sustainability
- The consultant, the leader and practising academically
- Sorry (isn’t always) the hardest word
- Are we leaders?
- Leadership as the journey
- Adaptive Leadership in the NHS
- Resilient leadership
- Appointing top talent
- The Patient as Leader
- Stop digging
- Leading from every seat in the NHS
- In support of a Race Equality Standard
- Healthier together
- Servant leadership
- It’s not about me
- Sensitive honesty
- Leadership: tips from myself and colleagues
- Personal leadership
- The act of trust
- Lighting the leadership flame: what a difference a year makes
- What does good look like in NHS leadership?
- The beginning of New Health and Care Voices
- What sort of leaders does the NHS need?
- None of us is as strong as all of us
- Two years on
- Are there enough role models?
- Take an interpreter
- Sense in otherness
- First impressions
- Embedding the 6Cs on the frontline
- Being a nurse is being a leader
- On the beach
- The real you?
- In pursuit of an ethical health service
- All means all – now prove it!
- Are you ready to lead?
- Taking charge to change culture
- Reflections and investments – the Top Leaders journey
- Collective and inclusive NHS leadership is the only way forward
- The Chosen One and the importance of talent management
- Making ACE decisions
- I had no idea!
- Why the NHS needs diversity advisors
- The importance of place
- Singing from the same hymn sheet: health and social care are taking the same approach to leadership
- It’s a garden not a factory
- Board level talent in the NHS
- Leadership starts with me
- Leading for health
- Flying high
- Come the revolution
- NHS Change Day: Perspectives of an emerging leader
- Yes, but are you any good?
- One hour. One patient. Different perspectives.
- LGB leadership
- Celebrating successes behind the scenes
- The equality lines
- Be the nurse or midwife you want to be
- Compass, relationships and conversation
- Look into yourself before reaching for the manual
- LGBT: Let’s Be Great Together
- How to get more from the Academy online
- Welcome 2014
- Marmite, tolerance and curiosity
- The BME list
- Who is your hero?
- A leadership model for patients and staff even more than for leaders
- A personal exploration of the NHS Constitution
- Honouring your prophets
- Black history month heroes: Nelson Mandela
- Black history month heroes: Stevie Wonder
- Changing the culture together
- Let’s talk talent
- Practice, practice, practice
- Educating Congress
- Black history month heroes: Oprah Winfrey
- In or out?
- Professional presence and social media
- Black history month heroes: Usain Bolt
- Black history month – October 2013
- The mishaps
- How do we measure healthcare and compassion – why should we bother?
- Back to the floor – Day 4
- Back to the Floor – Day 3
- Back to the floor – Day 2
- Back to the floor – Day 1
- Deep left field
- Safety culture
- Happy birthday motivation theory
- Mostly sunny with chances of rain
- Make a connection
- It’s personal
- True to yourself
- The Language of Leadership: small words that make a difference
- Remarkable people
- How we work with our Faculty
- Empowering and enabling cultures
- Values of leadership
- Keogh review: what made it different
- Leadership at every level
- Celebrating equality and diversity at Leeds Pride
- A truly inspirational woman
- The Faculty
- Future leadership
- Pride and embarrassment
- A brighter future
- The inspirational women
- Being a decent senior leader
- Francis Report: a leadership challenge that is still here
- Growing stronger
- The lone voice
- Is it just me?
- Why I’m proud of the NHS
- Recognising the value in others
- Leader-ment or Manage-ship?
- Birthday honours and inclusivity
- Masterclass: The social animal and public policy
- Masterclass: NHS and local government
- The wicked problems
- The passion in people
- Leading in Leeds
- Leadership, doubt and humility
- Celebrating NHS equality, diversity and human rights
- The good leader
- On becoming Eisenhower
- Pebble in the pond of culture change
- Leadership and the law of the instrument
- Never mind the rhetoric – here are some facts
- Using your proxy
- Accountability, vision and emotion
- Spend time thinking
- New Year, new chances
- Solving the big problems
- Core professional leadership programmes
- A plea to staff
- Trust
- Crossing the finish line
- Is it enough?
- Courage to lead in social media
- Long term leadership
- A proper end before a new beginning
- Forgive, but not forget
- It’s not business, it’s personal
- My NHS change…
- In praise of disloyalty
- Yes we can
- Top Leaders Masterclass: ‘Big Society in Practice’
- Doing a bad day’s work
- Our response to the Francis report
- Listen and learn
- In the ‘Land of Lincoln’
- We are not alone
- Impact of community healthcare
- Spotlight on quality of care
- Planning for impact
- Reflect on the old, look forward to the new
- Early morning thoughts
- Reflection and anticipation
- Celebrating our successes
- Leading with compassion
- Top Leaders Masterclass: ‘Customer Service’
- Nurturing talent
- 40,000 Commitments
- Xi Jinping and Top Leaders by John Deffenbaugh
- The value of values
- A glimpse of a different world
- Choices
- Strength and vulnerability in leadership
- My Great American Adventure – Yvonne and the IHI
- Time out for review and reflection
- The right intervention at the right time
- My Great American Adventure – For Carola
- My Great American Adventure – A farewell thought
- Embedding inclusion in leadership development
- Black history month
- My Great American Adventure – The race to the white house
- Reflecting on my own leadership
- My Great American Adventure – Work and culture in the third week
- My Great American Adventure – Inequalities & disparities
- Lively debate at our first board meeting
- My Great American Adventure – Learning about the healthcare system
- My Great American Adventure – The first weekend
- Leading through the challenges ahead
- My Great American Adventure – The arrival
- My Great American Adventure – The beginning
- System leadership matters
- Courine Stewart, conversations for change participant and advocate
- Time to shine
- The health delegation in Cape Town
- The meaning of innovation
- Joining up the dots
- Trip to South Africa
- Living our values
- Developing and delivering national leadership programmes
- Local leadership capabilities
- Leadership for Equality: Work with the Tutu Foundation
- Developing and embedding a common vision for health leadership
- Leadership development for a new health system
- The leadership challenge
- Keeping it real
- Choices
- Lessons from Paris
- Busman’s holiday
- Top teams
- Positive action equals positive outcomes
- What a Day!
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