All Careers development articles – Page 20
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CommentEmma Dent on medics vs managers
On my twice daily bus journeys I am assailed by my fellow passengers’ trivial or personal mobile phone conversations. Many of these drive me to fantasise violence, if only to get a few minutes of peace.
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CommentJon Restell on a raw deal for NHS managers
This isn’t a detailed piece about Rose Gibb’s breach of contract claim against Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, but win or lose - I’m not sure there can be a draw - it again shows how poorly senior managers are held to account in the NHS.
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CommentSafia Debar and David Colin-Thomé on the manager-clinician divide
A doctor and her mentor discuss the challenges facing clinical leaders
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Management coaching: down to the crossroads
A multi-agency worker felt her confidence going to pieces. Could coaching give her a new direction? Isobel Gowan explains
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Management styles: the leader of the pack
Are you an architect or an implementer? Esther Cameron and Mike Green describe five styles of leading
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NHS is a 'brutal' place for its leaders
The NHS is a “brutal” and “arbitrary” system in which to be a chief executive, according to leaders interviewed by the NHS Confederation.Its report, Reforming Leadership Development… Again, examines whythis area is reformed so often. Health minister Lord Darzi’s leadership proposals in his next stage review are the fourth reorganisation ...
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Julia Tybura on NHS career lessons
Preparing for a presentation I was giving to a group of MA students at a London university about human resources careers and opportunities taken, made and missed, I reflected on the fact that I am entering my 25th year of working for a living.
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Personal branding: success at last
In the final part in her series, Debbie Smith explains how to use your personal brand to secure that big promotion
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Wishful thinking: setting personal goals
The New Year is an opportunity to look again at your goals and ask yourself if they are taking you and your career in the right direction. Sheila Williams explains
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Julia Tybura on NHS career survival
What would you do if 90 per cent of the world's population died from a flu virus and you were one of only a handful of survivors?
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A year in health management volunteering
In her regular column from Cambodia, Patricia Sloan looks back on her first year as a health volunteer
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Jenny Rogers on friendships
A holiday in deepest Norfolk has brought home some lessons about friendship. In a village you do not have the lazy luxury of making friends who are identikit portraits of yourself: same profession, age, income, newspaper - and prejudices.
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NHS personal branding: how to get staff to follow your lead
A strong image of leadership includes drive, self-belief and the ability to inspire others. Debbie Smith reveals the formula
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NHS time management: achieving efficiency
NHS managers, if your time is being wasted on pointless chores, bin the boring bits and limit the endless meetings, says Jenny Rogers
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Personal branding: arm yourself with the right image
Is your image secure? In the latest in her series on branding, Debbie Smith offers a guide to reputation management
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Management styles: could you be a bully?
Who, me? If it comes as a shock that your team finds your style too forceful, it is time to reflect, says coach Sheila Williams
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Feedback: are you listening?
How do you react to feedback? HR consultant Sheila Williams suggests how to receive it
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VSO through the eyes of a health management volunteer
In her regular column from Cambodia, Patricia Sloan looks at how VSO has evolved over the last 50 years
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Nicky Jonas on NHS volunteers abroad
Volunteering offers stressed-out NHS managers the chance to make a difference in the developing world and learn valuable new skills that can give them an edge when they return home.
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Jeremy Porteus on NHS networking
It was during the shoulder-padded, champers-quaffing decade of excess known as the 1980s that the term 'networking' became popular.