When we are the leader or manager, there's pressure to be "the person who knows". If we cannot give confident advice or direction to our teams, we might look weak. Yet leaders who openly acknowledge what they don’t know often create superior outcomes. Much better to "lead like a scientist": This means approaching everything with curiosity, experimentation, collaboration & being comfortable with not knowing.
Three ways to lead like a scientist:
1) Learn in public: openly admit when we don’t know something, share failures & lessons learned, ask questions instead of always providing answers & document our thinking.
2) Unlock social flow: encourage team members to design their own experiments, make space for sharing insights & remove as many artificial barriers as possible.
3) Redefine "success": think beyond performance standards & treat unexpected results as valuable data. When everyone understands that learning is part of success, they take smarter risks, surface problems earlier & develop more interesting solutions to complex challenges:
https://t.co/F183TqUDHH. By @neuranne.
Commendable QI initiative by @jarvis_jenise for aiming to minimise the gaps with health inequalities for mothers. It was great to hear the impact contributing to national priorities in the NHS.
It was lovely to celebrate today with #windrush leadership programme colleagues. Thank you @FNightingaleF for the opportunity and @VJSaunders2014 for support and sponsorship. Inspiring words from @Liz_HEE and @Jacqui57Will .
Kicking off our Windrush #leadership programme celebration day with welcomes from our sponsors @Liz_HEE , @NHSEngland & @Jacqui57Will , @nmcnews
Next up: hearing about participants #QI projects addressing health inequalities
A few years ago, I travelled to Iceland in the hope of seeing the #NorthernLights but wasn’t able to then. Yesterday, I witnessed the #Aurorborealis right here at my doorstep in the UK 🇬🇧.
#Grateful#Humbled
This is a wonderful opportunity to share your thoughts and experiences as clinical educators and influence the designing of the Clinical Educators’ Development Programme by @NHSElect .
@Mcdonnel6Andrea @BH__Academy
Supporting the educator workforce is a key priority for the #NHS. But to get the right support in place for the future, we need to hear from #ClinicalEducators. Please take 5 minutes to share your experiences: https://t.co/ED0QDLXZqW