Leading for Improvement by Frimley Excellence

Leading Change, With a New Preface by Author John P. Kotter

FXteam — 2024-07-30 12:32:50 UTC

This seminal book by John Kotter is a must-read for understanding how to create and communicate a vision for change in healthcare settings. Kotter's 8-step process for leading change can help NHS leaders to build a shared purpose and vision effectively.

Podcast: Building a Shared Vision in Healthcare

FXteam — 2024-07-30 12:32:52 UTC

Tune into this inspiring podcast by Catalysis, where leaders discuss strategies to develop a cohesive purpose and vision within your organisation.

Toyota Kata by Mike Rother

FXteam — 2024-07-30 12:32:55 UTC

Mike Rother's Toyota Kata provides practical routines for connecting long-term goals with daily activities. It's essential reading for embedding improvement practices within management systems.

Virginia Mason Medical Center: A Model of Excellence

FXteam — 2024-07-30 12:32:57 UTC

Explore how Virginia Mason Medical Center embeds continuous improvement into its daily management systems. This article offers practical insights and examples.

The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership by Jeffrey Liker and Gary L. Convis

FXteam — 2024-07-30 12:32:58 UTC

Gain insights into how Toyota’s leadership approach can be adapted to build improvement capability and capacity within the NHS.

Gemba Walks by Jim Womack

FXteam — 2024-07-30 12:33:00 UTC

Understand the power of Gemba walks through this essential guide by Jim Womack. Learn how to observe, question, and understand management practices on the ground.

The Heart of Change by John Kotter and Dan Cohen

FXteam — 2024-07-30 12:33:02 UTC

John Kotter and Dan Cohen explore the emotional aspects of change in 'The Heart of Change'. This book is vital for NHS leaders focusing on the people and culture aspects of improvement.

Cultivating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

FXteam — 2024-07-30 12:33:04 UTC

2 minute read

Continuous improvement (CI) is not about tools, techniques and projects applied as a formula, it’s about principles and behaviours...

Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process by John Shook

FXteam — 2024-07-30 12:33:07 UTC

John Shook's 'Managing to Learn' explores the A3 management process, offering valuable lessons for developing leadership behaviours that drive improvement.

Leader Standard Work: Extending Lean Practices to Executives

FXteam — 2024-07-30 12:33:09 UTC

Examine how Leader Standard Work can be applied to senior NHS executives for sustained improvement. This article provides a detailed overview of the practice.

Gemba

vickymurray1 — 2024-07-30 13:24:30 UTC

8 minute watch

Initially developed for the Governors and NEDs this session can be a helpful refresher to anyone planning to go on a Gemba visit

Berkshire Healthcare - Leadership, change and improvement

vickymurray1 — 2024-07-30 13:27:57 UTC

40 minute listen

Julian describes his approach to leadership, change and improvement at Berkshire Healthcare since 2011

6 lessons from VMI in the NHS

vickymurray1 — 2024-08-09 10:47:15 UTC

8 minute read

Overview of the Warwick Business School review "Leading change across a healthcare system: How to build improvement capability and foster a culture of continuous improvement - lessons from an evaluation of the NHS-VMI Partnership Spring 2022"

Lesson 1 - Build cultural readiness as a foundation for better QI outcomes
Lesson 2 - Embed QI routines and practices into everyday practice
Lesson 3 - Leaders show the way and light the path for others
Lesson 4 - Relationships aren't a priority, they're a prerequisite
Lesson 5 - Holding each other to account for behaviours, not just outcomes
Lesson 6 - The rule of a golden thread: not all improvement matters in the same way

Rebel Ideas by Matthew Syed

FXteam — 2024-09-30 10:58:40 UTC

Rebel Ideas examines the power of ‘cognitive diversity’ – the ability to think differently about the world around us.

It explains how to harness our unique perspectives, pool our collective intelligence and tackle the greatest challenges of our age.

Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed

FXteam — 2024-09-30 11:02:07 UTC

Black box thinking is a new approach to high performance. Highlighting the need for a growth mindset - we can not learn and grow, unless we acknowledge failure, try new things, and alter our behaviours based on what we see.

Dare: Behind the Scenes of the Best Business Transformation Project in the World by Christian Matei et al

FXteam — 2024-09-30 11:07:40 UTC

This book was born out of an outstanding collaboration between professionals of rather different personalities, expertise and experience. It is about leaders who went all in to achieve a 21st century organisational model, a snapshot into the work of more than 2.000 people as they went above and beyond trying to change their fate for more than 4 years. This book tells the story of a Project that has been designed from the start with the quest for excellence as an objective – it was envisioned to be globally recognized as one of the best business transformation initiatives, not just within the utilities sector, but across all industries.

Capability Trap

vickymurray1 — 2024-10-31 13:19:34 UTC

Gemba Go See

vickymurray1 — 2025-05-19 15:13:35 UTC

Servant Leadership

vickymurray1 — 2025-07-30 11:30:43 UTC

Short read (3 minutes) from Forbes of about what servant leadership means to some of their leaders.