Compassionate leadership training for managers and leaders
Compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation, and reduced staff stress, injuries and absenteeism, and even reduced patient mortality.
Why compassion?
At the heart of compassion is the notion that everyone experiences difficulty, and that we can all play a role in alleviating our own difficulties and those of others. Whether this is compassion for ourselves or the people we lead, colleagues or service users. We won’t always feel like helping and will sometimes be tired or overwhelmed or unable to connect.
Although it helps to have positive feelings, we do not have to feel compassion to be compassionate. We can recognise our physical and mental state, resource ourselves as best we can, and respond from our firm compassionate intention, rather than from impulse or intense emotion.
How does compassion improve care?
How does this translate into compassion in health, social care and other organisations? How might we think about compassionate leadership, working with colleagues, service users and their friends and families? Research by Prof Michael West shows how compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation, and reduced staff stress, injuries and absenteeism, and even reduced patient mortality. In short, compassion is essential to high quality healthcare.
Dr Robert Marx and Professor Clara Strauss have designed a training programme of six weekly sessions, lasting 2 hours.
Who is the course for?
The course is for anyone in a leadership or management role in a health and social care organisation and will combine experiential practice and reflection, as well as home practice to help cultivate compassion for ourselves and the people we lead.
What’s in the course programme?
If you want to learn more download this programme outline (pdf).
Courses for nurse advocates
Courses for nurse advocates are free. To find out more and secure your place join one of these two taster sessions. Please find the Zoom links to join below – no need to book, just turn up:
Wednesday 29 November, 4pm
Zoom link
Meeting ID: 912 7343 1323
Passcode: 114640
Tuesday 12 December, 3pm
Zoom link
Meeting ID: 989 3314 4569
Passcode: 637529
Places on the courses starting in January will be allocated on a first come first served basis to those who attend one of these taster sessions, and complete this short joining form.
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