It’s impossible to have a good strategy poorly executed. That’s because execution actuallyis strategy – trying to separate the two only leads to confusion.
https://hbr.org/2015/03/stop-distinguishing-between-execution-and-strategy
Monthly Archives: March 2015
What Everyone Needs to Know About Running Productive Meetings – Harvard Business Review
Raise your hand if you think the majority of meetings are a complete waste of your time — not to mention your organization’s time. You don’t need to look far for confirming evidence. Consider the data on how one company’s weekly executive committee meeting rippled through the organization in a profoundly disturbing way, ultimately taking up to 300,000 hours a year.
https://hbr.org/2015/03/what-everyone-needs-to-know-about-running-productive-meetings
Work And Wellbeing In The NHS: Why Staff Health Matters To Patient Care – Royal College of Physicians
This report shows that staff health and wellbeing in the NHS is often seen as an optional extra – as less than two thirds of trusts have a staff health and wellbeing plan in place. It says that high quality patient care relies on skilled staff who are not only physically and mentally well enough to do their jobs, but also feel valued, supported and engaged. It also states that good staff health, wellbeing and engagement can reap significant benefits for patient safety including reduced MRSA infection rates and lower patient mortality rates.
https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/sites/default/files/work-and-wellbeing-in-the-nhs.pdf
Improving Postgraduate Medical Training Through The Adoption Of Better Training Better Care – NHS Employers
This briefing aims to demonstrate to board members how using innovative solutions in medical education can help to improve quality of care and patient safety and can also make cost savings. Employers, educational supervisors and trainees will want to look at the successes of the pilots and consider which of the pilots might be suitable for local adoption, or whether other innovative solutions in education and training could lead to similar successes.
The ABC Technique: Overcoming Pessimistic Thinking – MindTools
Optimists have been proven to be happier, healthier, more productive and more successful than pessimists. The good news is that optimism is a skill – you can learn how to be more optimistic. In this article, we’ll show you how to use the ABC Technique to develop a more optimistic outlook.
7 Ways to Capture Someone’s Attention – Harvard Business Review
Your long-term success depends on winning the attention of others. If your boss doesn’t notice your work, how will you get a promotion? If your team doesn’t listen to you, how can you lead effectively? And if you can’t capture the attention of clients, how does your business or career survive?
https://hbr.org/2015/03/7-ways-to-capture-someones-attention
When Not to Treat a Colleague as You’d Want to Be Treated – Harvard Business Review
Roger was a young rising star. He had always been successful, and prided himself on his brains, speed, and ability to deliver impressive results. His company had just appointed him to take over a troubled country operation in Latin America. He did a brilliant job turning things around financially. But he then got completely stymied by a group of angry employees who started a covert revolution in the ranks — and almost succeeded in getting him fired.
https://hbr.org/2015/03/when-not-to-treat-a-colleague-as-youd-want-to-be-treated
Developing a Career Strategy – Mind Tools
Some people think that the development of their career is out of their hands. After all, you can’t get a job, promotion, or project without someone else giving it to you, right?
Well, on one level, that’s true. However, what you do and how far you go in life is in reality up to one person: you. Great careers don’t just happen – if you want a career that excites and challenges you, then you need to plan for it.
In this article, we’ll outline a common-sense approach that you can use to think about how to reach your full potential in your career.
Beware the Mid-Career Slump – Mind Tools
Research shows that, for many people, job satisfaction is U-shaped over time. In other words, you start and end your career on a high, while slumping or plateauing in the middle. In this article, we’ll look at what you can do to get out of this sort of mid-career slump.
How can the NHS become better at change? – The Health Foundation
The NHS Forward View sets out a clear vision for change. So we know what needs to be done, but do we truly know how to support the NHS to make this happen? We look at the key recommendations from our work on how the NHS can strengthen its ability to change.