Leadership in challenging times

Janet Probert

Why is it challenging?

Professional competence

Money!

Demography

What does this mean for nurse leadership?

• Integrity• Front foot• Telling stories ........• Doing the right things• Challenging the wrong

Get the basics right.....

• and prove it .....

– Patients and carers– The community– CQC– Commissioners

QiPP – do it differently

How do we think differently?

“Heavier than air flying machines are impossible”

Lord Kelvin, British mathematician, physicist and president of Royal Society 1895

“We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out”

Decca Recording Co Executive turning down the Beatles in 1962

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer at home”

Ken Olson President Digital Equipment Corporation 1977

The science shows that the secret to high performance…[is] our deep seated desire to direct our own lives, to extend and expand our abilities and to live a life of purpose

Daniel Pink (2009) Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us

“Large scale change is fuelled bythe passion that comes from thefundamental belief that there issomething very different and betterthat is worth striving for”

Leading Large Scale Change (2011)NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

Influential leaders

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“A cynic, after all,is a passionateperson who doesnot want to bedisappointed again”

Zander R and Zander B (2000) The art ofpossibility. Harvard Business SchoolPress. As quoted by Steve Onyett

Strategic workshop

Deep in the forest there's an unexpected clearing that can be reached only by someone who has lost his way. Tomas Tranströmmer