New tool to help workforce leadership planning 
Aimed at divisional teams, workforce planning leads, stakeholders as well as Boards, a new operational workforce planning self-assessment tool (made available via NHS Improvement’s Provider Bulletin of May 9th 2018) – quick link
This tool aims to help in carrying out an organisational assessment against 6 key indicators: leadership, technology, information, method and governance, engagement and integration, and strategy. Includes guidance on supporting evidence, policies and resources
Leadership and creativity in public services: An interview with Lord Michael Bichard, Chair of the National Audit Office
Bolden R and O’Regan, N
Excerpt from abstract “A champion of place-based approaches to public services, where citizens are actively involved in service design, delivery and appraisal, Bichard advocates the need for inclusive and supportive leadership that enables the emergence of the kinds of creativity required to respond to the financial challenges facing the public sector. Bichard’s ideas resonate with recent research on creative leadership and provide a practical illustration of place-based and systems leadership in the public sector and beyond.”
Journal articles
Leadership styles and outcome patterns for the nursing workforce and work environment: A systematic review
International Journal of Nursing Studies
Available online 3 May 2018
A team of Canadian nursing researchers have completed a systematic review.
Excerpt from abstract : “Results : A total of 43,994 titles and abstracts were screened resulting in 129 included studies. Using content analysis, 121 outcomes were grouped into six categories: 1) staff satisfaction with job factors, 2) staff relationships with work, 3) staff health & wellbeing, 4) relations among staff, 5) organizational environment factors and 6) productivity & effectiveness. Our analysis illuminated patterns between relational and task focused leadership styles and their outcomes for nurses and nursing work environments. For example, 52 studies reported that relational leadership styles were associated with higher nurse job satisfaction, whereas 16 studies found that task-focused leadership styles were associated with lower nurse job satisfaction. Similar trends were found for each category of outcomes.”
Daily transformational leadership and employee job crafting: The role of promotion focus
European Management Journal , articles in press 2018 / open access
A Leadership Taxonomy for Clinical Dietetics Practice
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Article in press, 2018
Self-control Puts Character into Action: Examining How Leader Character Strengths and Ethical Leadership Relate to Leader Outcomes
Journal of Business Ethics (2018) p1-17
Excerpt from abstrct : “Findings provide initial support for leader character as a mechanism triggering positive outcomes such that only when [US Air force ] officers reported a high level of self-control did their honesty/humility, empathy, and moral courage manifest in ethical leadership, associated with higher levels of psychological flourishing and in-role performance.”
The authors “discuss the implications of these results for future theory development, research, and practice.”
Leadership and generations at work: A critical review
The Leadership Quarterly , Vol 29 (2018) p44-57
Are Formal Leaders the Only Ones Benefitting From Leadership Training? A Shared Leadership Perspective
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
First Published May 11, 2018
Excerpt from abstract “Interestingly, the improvement in transformational leadership behaviors of formal and informal leaders tended to predict employee efficiency and well-being in different ways. Improvements in formal leaders’ transformational leadership were related to employee well-being, while informal leaders’ increases in transformational leadership were associated with efficiency. The results point toward the benefit of a shared leadership perspective on leadership training and indicate that improvements in transformational leadership may affect employees differently depending on who in the organization displays them.”
Examining the Indirect Effects of Perceived Organizational Support for Teamwork Training on Acute Health Care Team Productivity and Innovation: The Role of Shared Objectives
Group and Organization Management, April 2018
The sample comprised 143 acute hospital teams made up of 1,356 participants from 13 NHS organizations across England.
Excerpt from abstract “Our study supports the notion that through processes such as socialization and exposure to the same leaders and organizational policies, team members are able to develop a collective representation regarding the extent to which their organization supports teamwork training, thus enabling team members to assign shared meaning to the degree to which they are supported and developed as a team.”
Organization-Based Self-Esteem and Meaningful Work Mediate Effects of Empowering Leadership on Employee Behaviors and Well-Being
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
First Published March 20, 2018
Excerpt from abstract : “….empowering leadership was positively associated with organization-based self-esteem and meaningful work. Organization-based self-esteem led to greater organizational citizenship behaviors and fewer deviant behaviors. Perceptions of meaningful work resulted in lower levels of emotional exhaustion and higher levels of life satisfaction. Together, these findings highlight the important roles of the two psychological states explaining why empowering leadership contributes to employees’ favorable work behaviors and psychological well-being.”
Clinical leadership training: an evaluation of the Welsh Fellowship programme
Leadership in Health Services; Bradford Vol. 31, Iss. 2, (2018): 226-237.
Open access article from Online Research @ Cardiff
Phillips, S, Bullock, A.
Excerpt from abstract : “Focused on the participants (n = 8), the authors explored expectations of the programme, reactions to academic components (provided by Academi Wales) and learning from workplace projects and other opportunities. The authors adopted a qualitative approach, collecting data from four focus groups, 20 individual face-to-face or telephone interviews with fellows and project supervisors and observation of Academi Wales training days.”
Link to Academi Wales here
Antecedents, mediators, and outcomes of authentic leadership in healthcare: A systematic review
International Journal of Nursing Studies, vol 83, p34-64
Deadly combinations: how leadership contexts undermine the activation and enactment of followers’ high core self-evaluations in performance
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology; Vol. 27, Iss. 3, (Jun 2018): 297-309.
Authors find in a study of a manufacturing organisation that “some leadership contexts undermine high CSE followers’ performance and promote low CSE followers’ performance.” (173 followers and their 31 leaders )
Need explanation of core self evaluation ? Wikipedia What is core self evaluation?
Nurse Manager Learning Agility and Observed Leadership Ability: A Case Study
Nursing Economics; Pitman Vol. 36, Iss. 2, (Mar/Apr 2018): 74-82.
Excerpt from executive summary:
* Learning agility (LA) is a concept that has been used to predict potential for leadership in several fields, but has not been explored in a nursing population.
* This pilot study and organization case example provide a baseline for how LA can be used in nursing to identify areas for development, performance improvement, and predict success in a leadership role.
* LA can be used as a vehicle for talent management or as a conceptual grounding for leadership development programs
Want more about Learning Agility ?- See free online Lynda.com module on The importance of learning agility
The social construction of leadership studies : representations of rigour and relevance in textbooks
Leadership, Vol 14, issue 2
Carroll B, Firth J, Ford J and Taylor S
An exploration of “the construction of meaning around rigour and relevance in four leadership studies textbooks – the two most globally popular leadership textbooks and two recent additions to the field – to explore how these ideas are represented. We read the four texts narratively for structure, purpose, style, and application. We further embed the
analysis by considering the cultural positioning of the textbook-as-genre within
leadership studies as a field more generally”
Improving staff retention
NHS Improvement
Posted 4th May 2018
A collection of resources which includes : retention improvement guides, government policy documents, and case studies on trust initiatives to improve retention. These have been chosen to help promote best practice and share learning.
This repository will be updated regularly to help promote known best practice and share learning.
Example case study : Staff retention: using staff insight to retain staff – Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
See also Supporting employees’ mid-life career needs, NHS Employers, Posted 22nd March 2018 and Fuller Working Lives A Partnership Approach (Dept for Work and Pensions, published Feb 2018 )
Critically Appraised Topic (CAT) Generational differences
Centre for Evidence Based Management, 2017
Although only focused on meta-analyses, this CAT is an interesting contribution to the study of generational differences in the workplace.
Excerpt from CEBMa webpage “Employees from different generation groups are said not to have the same work ethics, or expectations and values about organizations, or goals and aspirations in their working life. However, is this assumption supported by scientific evidence? To find out, Atrain, a global HR Management consulting firm based in Germany, approached CEBMa to conduct a CAT in order to understand what is known in the scientific literature about generational differences.”
The Chief Scientific Officer’s WISE Fellowship Programme for NHS England
The Chief Scientific Officer’s WISE Fellowship is a unique opportunity for mid-career female healthcare scientists to gain invaluable leadership experience – It is currently open (for applications for 2018-2019) to female healthcare scientists working in any discipline in any NHS England trust whether in a formal training programme or not, and it compliments the Modernising Scientific Pathway and equivalence pathways.
Meet the WISE mentors and the WISE Young Women’s Board
See also Blog post by Jo Horne who is a current Fellow
Effective performance, development and career conversations at work
IES Perspectives on HR 2018, April 2018
Direct link to PDF here and the press release
Excerpt from webpage “This paper, the first in the IES Perspectives on HR 2018 series, takes a critical look at the widespread exhortation that managers should have more frequent and more effective conversations with employees about their performance, skills and learning, potential and career development. HR is rightly telling managers to have more ‘conversations’ with their staff, but in this context, what makes an effective conversation? Authored by IES principal associate, Wendy Hirsh, the paper identifies what effective conversations achieve before outlining how they are conducted and offering practitioners six routes to more effective conversations. The paper offers the view that effective performance, development and career conversations, are a gateway to an organisational culture that has a stronger and more continuous focus on improving performance, enhancing skills and helping employees make the most of their potential.”
Wendy Hirsh and Elaine Tyler’s slides from IES HR workshop ‘Talent management: strategies, practices and challenges‘, 15 February 2018, London. (IES members only)
See also recent Institute of Employment Studies report on talent management
Talent management: Learning across sectors – July 2017
And
New research to identify employer practice that enables career progression for disadvantaged workers – Feb 2018
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Catalyst web resources :
Survey Snapshot: Good Leadership Requires Organizational Alignment –
Insight Report May 3rd 2018
About NEJM Catalyst here
Further insights into Leadership on the NEJM Catalyst web page
ScienceforWork.com is an organisation that looks at the evidence and presents it in blog format, team members profiles here
Organisation remit: High quality information published in peer reviewed journals is hard to find and to read, and too often doesn’t provide quick tips for your practice. However, if the best scientists in the world studied the problem you are trying to fix before you, wouldn’t you like to know what they discovered? Identification and selection of the evidence they consider most relevant. Critcal evaluation of its trustworthiness summarized findings and implications for practice .
Effective team communication? Focus on quality!
Ignoring bad leadership may be risky business — here’s why
Does Diversity Training Work? Time for an Evidence-Based Answer
The impact of corporate leadership programs: A grounded theory study of the impact of diversity leadership programs on the advancement of African Americans in healthcare
Dissertation – available full text anywhere ????
Toolkits for team bulding
Team toolkit – NHS Employers
How to plan a teambuilding event – University of Glasgow
Team building tool – World Health Organisation
Team building toolkit – University of California
Team building 1, Team building 2 and Team building 3 – Nursing Times
Team building exercises and activities – Mindtools
Citizen leadership
Citizen Led Healthcare – Learning from the Millom experience: An NHS North West Leadership Academy Project
Howarth J, Davis D, Worsley-Cox K, Brumby J, Fleming R
International Journal of Integrated Care . 2017; 17 ( 5 ) :A469 (conference abstract)
Inside the ‘new NHS’: where are the citizens? 6/20/2017
British Politics and Policy at LSE, blog post by Bob Hudson
A Revolution from Within: Transforming Health and Care in Wales
The Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales , 2018
Why leadership is everyone’s act of citizenship
Blog post on World Economic Forum
Principles and Standards of Citizen Leadership,
By the Changing Lives User and Carer Forum
including What is Citizen Leadership? A Report by the User and Carer Panel of the 21st Century Social Work Review, old as published in 2008 but a useful overview from a UK perspective.
The Use of a Citizen Leader Model for Teaching Strategic Leadership
Again quite old but introduces Citizen Leader Model
Smart Cities: Towards a New Citizenship Regime? A Discourse Analysis of the British Smart City Standard
Journal of urban technology
2017, Vol 24 issue 4