Careers Advice
Leadership Insight #13 / 2022: Building a panel of role models and mentors is an essential leadership skill at any career stage
Role models provide real life versions of people who have reached professional milestones that we aspire to, who share similar interests, and who model the types of behaviours that we might want to learn from and emulate.
Leadership Insight #12 / 2022: Acting inclusively in moments that matter
What can individuals do or say to create inclusive environments at work? Increasing self-awareness, social awareness and revealing blind spots comes when connecting with and listening to a diverse range of people. Recognising the contexts or situations in which we can act inclusively can also really make an impact.
Leadership insight #11 / 2022: Supporting teams to excel - diverse members and psychological safety
We work in teams so we can deliver complex, expert, and tailored care as needed. To do this our teams need a range of people in them, each bringing their unique skills and expertise, experience, and perspective. Greater diversity in teams is, logically, an asset, as more expertise can be brought to the task at hand.
Leadership insight #10 / 2022: Trust: How to build more trust at work
In leadership, trust is one of the core building blocks upon which good relationships are built. Trust enables effective collaboration and cooperation that are so essential for providing complex care over time. Trust is foundational leadership capital.
Leadership insight #9 – 2022: Friendships at work: why they matter
Many doctors we are speaking with now are referencing how much they are missing friends at work. They miss seeing and spending time with colleagues and they miss the opportunities to transition these collegial relationships into friendships. These relationships are sustaining. This is what ‘engagement,’ well-being and connectedness is.
Leadership insight #7 – 2022: Saying ‘no’: Why it’s an important leadership skill and how to do it
These days it seems like there are more and more demands on our time and energy, with ‘work’ being one of the biggest culprits. Often these work demands are important and time-sensitive and do need to get done. However, saying ‘yes’ to everything is not the answer: Sometimes you need to say ‘no.’
Leadership Insight #6 - 2022: Getting comfortable with constant change
Constant change is with us it seems: “The pace of change has increased massively in light of the pandemic. Managing it now requires a strategy akin to white-water rafting.”
Leadership Insight #5 – 2022: Leading exhausted teams
Taking leadership is about being clear on our role and purpose, about containing and organising collaborative work, and containing anxiety so people don’t get overwhelmed. AMAV Leadership development consultant, coach and educator Dr Anna Clark (PhD) provides some small, everyday actions, that can help you lead exhausted teams.
Leadership Insight #4 – 2022: Sharing our grief and loss can be important leadership work
The COVID pandemic has impacted us all. Two years on from the start of the pandemic, it’s important to keep attending to feelings of grief and loss, and for leaders to provide containment for their staff and colleagues.