Strengths based leadership is about focusing on your own strengths and the strengths of your team and not their weaknesses or skills gaps. It Is based on decades of research by the research company Gallup. They found that the most effective leaders: Invest in employees’ strengths; Gather together the right people to ensure the best team: Understand the needs of their followers.
Gallup’s surveys found that leaders who used strengths based leadership had 99% engagement compared to 40% who had managers who who did not. Research shows that an engaged employee has 50% reduction in incidents and harm compared to disengaged employees.
Key Learning Objectives:
What is Strengths based leadership?
Why is it important?
How to use it to improve staff engagement and productivity
Developing your team
Moving away from skill gaps
All Clinical Staff and Team Leads should attend.
Facilitator:
The course is facilitated by Perbinder Grewal, a General & Vascular Surgeon, Human Factors & Patient Safety Trainer, and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner; leads on medical education both locally and nationally; Member of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; formerly lead for e-learning for healthcare for the Royal College of Surgeons of England; experienced trainer and coach who uses new insights to develop patient safety, staff engagement and psychological safety; has Postgraduate Certificates in Leadership and Coaching.
Feedback from previous masterclasses facilitated by Perbinder includes:
“Brilliant and enlightening” “Engaging Speaker”
“Inspirational” “Best modelling of leadership”
