Lane4 in the News: Ward Focus
Fostering cutting-edge leadership in the NHS isn't easy. Decades of underfunding and deeply entrenched hierarchies have resulted in a culture in which staff at all levels are even more suspicious of change than those in the private sector.
What's more, many senior medical staff don't take kindly to new-fangled management ideas such as consulting employees or experimenting with entrepreneurial ways of thinking. Despite these obstacles, coaching is increasingly proving to be a useful tool in promoting new management styles.
One example of this is the Leadership for Service Improvement scheme, which was launched by Surrey and Sussex Health Authority (SHA) in March this year. The L150,000 programme is part of the National Management Development Initiative, which aims to support the development of middle and senior managers across the NHS.
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www.cipd.co.uk | Sally O'Reilly (Coaching at Work Magazine) | 2006-02-10