For those of you in leadership positions, whether you are managing whole services, teams or resources, you are all negotiating rapid change, uncertainty and ambiguity. The current circumstances have required you to draw on resources you possibly didn’t know you had in responding to new challenges with little or no time to prepare for.
The leadership you demonstrate now has never been more important or more in focus. Some of your challenges will be unique to our own individual circumstances but many will be shared with colleagues in similar roles in other homes.
Three things you could do right now as a leader:
1. Book Time Out so you can gather your thoughts and anticipate how you could react to changes in circumstances
2. Watch this five minute video from Sage & Thyme about Running a Staff Support Session
www.sageandthymetraining.org.uk/film/running-staff-support-session
3. Take two minutes to read this article from the King’s Fund on finding the space to think
www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/space-think-coaching-covid19
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