Transformational Thinking For Health Leaders - from Fiona Day Consulting
A podcast that will help you meet your most complex leadership challenges. This podcast - from Registered & Chartered Coaching Psychologist and Master Practitioner Coach & Mentor Dr Fiona Day - will transform your perspectives.
It will help you become a more effective and creative leader, with a deeper understanding of yourself and your own world of work. Fiona interviews other medical and public health leaders, generating thought-provoking, and dialectical dialogues.
You'll hear inspirational stories and real-world insights which will help you do your own best work now and into the future.
Expect open and honest discussions with both emerging and established health leaders and to hear their career stories, the journeys that led to their current positions – including the twists and turns and how they made decisions along the way.
You’ll also hear how medical and public health leaders balance multiple roles inside and outside of work, their reflections on health leadership, and their own insights and learning over the years.
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Transformational Thinking For Health Leaders - from Fiona Day Consulting
27 - Leading Without Authority: The Human Skills Behind Effective Public Health Leadership
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What does effective public health leadership look like when you don't have the authority to simply tell people what to do?
In this episode of Transformational Thinking for Health Leaders, Dr Fiona Day is joined by Professor Jim McManus, National Director of Health and Wellbeing at Public Health Wales and former President of the Association of Directors of Public Health.
Drawing on his extensive career across the NHS, local government, the voluntary sector and national public health leadership, Jim explores why successful leadership depends on understanding organisational cultures, building relationships and enabling others to succeed.
Together, Fiona and Jim discuss the importance of distributed leadership, lessons learned during COVID-19, and the challenges of influencing political decision-makers while maintaining professional integrity.
They also explore their shared interest in bringing psychology and public health closer together, including their recent academic collaboration examining the role of psychological science in developing effective public health leaders.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why effective leadership requires flexibility and an understanding of organisational context.
- How distributed leadership can strengthen teams and improve decision-making.
- The importance of finding common ground when working across political and organisational boundaries.
- How to communicate complex public health evidence in ways that influence meaningful decisions.
- Why psychological science has an increasingly important role in public health leadership and workforce development.
Three questions for your own leadership reflection:
- How might I need to adapt my leadership approach to better reflect the organisational and political context in which I work?
- Am I creating enough opportunities for others to exercise their expertise and leadership?
- How effectively am I translating complex evidence into conversations that influence decisions and create meaningful change?
An insightful conversation about the human, psychological and relational skills required to lead effectively across complex health systems.
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