Leadership in Practice

If you liked this podcast you can find even more ideas and tools to help you improve your Leadership in my book Leadership in Practice and my blogs posted on Linkedin .   If you’d need help with a leadership challenge, I’d be delighted to discuss this with you and you can contact me at gary@leadershipinpractice.co.uk . You can also connect with me on Linkedin , Twitter and Facebook or by visiting...

Every manager or leader needs a way of knowing how their practice is doing. Is everything going well or are there problems ahead? Without this it’s like driving blindfold.  You need a system and a set of measures that monitors, measure and tracks the most important areas of the business and practice. Whether you call them key performance indicators, metrics or your dashboard, for managers and lead...

Most leaders are likely to find themselves leading through a crisis at some point. This last year has almost certainly put every leader in that position. In a crisis panic, fear and anxiety can affect everyone. For a leader you might want to lock the door, bury you head and run away and hide from the problems. When you’re leading through a crisis the vision and goals can be lost in a battle to jus...

General practice is fast paced and constantly changing. Demands from patients and stakeholder are ever increasing as is the need to be constantly in touch with them. And this year has shown more than ever how we constantly need to share messages and information on a frequent basis to everyone. Meeting this huge challenge is massive but the benefits for a practice and its patients can be considerab...

Right now it can be hard to find things to look forward to, and jobs that we loved may have become monotonous or all consuming.   If you find yourself in that situation it will be no surprise if you’ve lost your motivation. It’s an unhappy place for you and for those around you, who are sure to notice.  When this happens it can be hard to get your enthusiasm back but you don’t have to wait for it...

We’ve been through so much difficulty and change recently, the thought of more is daunting.   Yet as we begin recovering from this crisis, we face more change. We’ll have time to get it right, and to make it less painful, but we may not know where to begin and anxiety might make us hesitant to start.  In this episode I share the steps you can take that will help make providing the leadership out o...

PM’s often find having more than one manager challenging. The role can be as good as the partners are but it can depend on how you manage them.  In this episode of the Leadership in Practice podcast I look at how you can successfully manage more than one manager by breaking the problem down to parts: Manage the individuals Manage the group Manage yourself  If you liked this podcast you can find ev...

In this episode of the Leadership in Practice podcast I look at how important it is to be ‘plugged in’. This means being up to date, informed and engaged and is one of the most valuable things a leader can be. I talk about what you need to do to get plugged in and how it can really help you as a manager and leader.  If you liked this podcast you can find even more ideas and tools to help you impro...

In this episode of the Leadership in Practice podcast I look at how important it is to be ‘plugged in’. This means being up to date, informed and engaged and is one of the most valuable things a leader can be. I talk about what you need to do to get plugged in and how it can really help you as a manager and leader.  If you liked this podcast you can find even more ideas and tools to help you impro...

There have been many occasions where I’ve been in a workshop with practices that are talking about working together and committing to do exactly this. Way more often than not nothing happens because an essential part of the commitment is missing; there is no shared vision for the collaboration. I expect you may have experienced this too.  In this episode I talk about vision. What it is, and what i...

How often have you come away from a meeting amazed at how many people said nothing. Or maybe you sat silently through it. It’s not uncommon.  In part this can be through not knowing the role you’re expected to perform when you attend a meeting, or not being pushed to fulfil a role.  In this episode I’ll look at the role that everybody has when they attend and how this can improve your meetings. If...

In this episode of the Leadership in Practice podcast I look at what will be the role of the Practice Manager in the future. We can expect it to be different but what is driving these changes?  I’ll talk about these things and also what are the three essential skills for a Practice Manager in the future; leadership, first class business skills and collaboration.  If you liked this podcast you can...