Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
An Introduction to Leading with Kindness and Compassion in Health and Social Care
The King's Fund
This online course introduced foundational ideas around leadership, kindness and compassion, to explore why in today's health and care context they matter more than ever. As well as deepening understanding and knowledge of leadership in the health and care system, the course focused on the development of a personal practice of kind and compassionate leadership.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Simon Newitt
Senior Consultant
The King's Fund
Mark Doughty
Senior Consultant
The King's Fund
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Engage with the evidence around why kindness and compassion is important for improving outcomes, staff wellbeing and performance and inclusive organisational cultures
- Reflect on your own leadership behaviours and the behaviours you see around you in the workplace
- Practice simple and every day techniques to model self-compassion and kindness towards others
- Discuss the wider systemic issues that prevent kindness and compassion from being present in health and care
- Explore the different ways in which we define the concepts of leadership, kindness and compassion
- Begin to develop a personal practice of kind and compassionate leadership
Syllabus
- How key concepts relating to kind and compassionate leadership are defined
- The evidence for improved patient and service user outcomes
- The evidence for staff wellbeing, performance and innovation
- The evidence for kind and compassionate leadership in the context of social inequities and social justice
- Understanding what gets in the way of kind and compassionate leadership
- How to lead yourself with kindness and compassion
- How to model kindness and compassion to others
Issued on 18th August 2022
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