This clear, accessible text covers:
-Achieving a high quality of leadership at all levels of organisation
-Practical ways that reflective leadership can contribute to safe, effective healthcare for all patients
-A 'how-to' view of leadership
-Linking action with reflection in a practical way
-How all clinical staff can apply and improve their leadership skills through reflective practice
This title will appeal to all those undertaking continued professional development, anyone who is in a leadership role or anyone who aspires to lead in the future.
Tony Ghaye is Director of ReflectiveLearning-UK a social enterprise that seeks to improve lives through participatory, appreciative action and reflection. He is a prolific author and founder of the journal Reflective Practice: International and Multi-disciplinary Perspectives.
Sue Lillyman is a qualified nurseand midwife, and has worked in a variety of specialist areas within clinical practice. She has worked as a Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University and the University of Worcester. Ghaye and Lillyman have written a number of practical titles on reflection, published by Quay Books
Table of contents
Leadership in the context of NHS policy
Leadership in the context of NHS
principles
New thinking about leaders and leadership
Leadership styles and traits of good
leadership
Reflective leadership
Putting leadership values into practice
Linking leadership with reflection and
action
Leadership and positivity, optimism and
resilience
Reflective leadership for excellence in
the NHS