Reflexive Leadership for Improved Team Adaption and Burnout Prevention

In the post-pandemic world, we have become dynamically aware of the public need for equity, inclusion, and diversity in community and workplace settings.

In the UK, Professor Michael West and his team of multidisciplinary researchers have, in recent years, introduced "compassionate leadership" via the King's Fund organisation across many NHS bodies.

While this is an excellent step to initiate kind interaction among our healthcare workers, we contend that individual personalities and complex teaming dynamics in traditionally hierarchical situations go beyond the case of compassion or lack thereof.

In this CPD, we support diverse leadership styes (as well as compassionate leadership) and how individuals/teams can complement one another, drawing on our expertise in special educational needs, disability awareness, and the significance of utilising team reflexivity in collaboration.

Upon completion of this CPD, participants will take away different theory and practice-focused tools to challenge pre-conceived ideas of organisational and individual poor performance while being empowered to challenge favouritism principles in the workplace.

They will be able to address key challenges from various new lenses in collaboration together or individually and at any stage of teaming up.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this webinar, you'll be able to:

• Explore and evaluate how diverse leadership styles and practices can promote team reflexivity and organisational outcomes due to improved team practices and collaboration
• Research and implement best practice according to current govt guidelines to empower disabled and/or neurodivergent colleagues during team establishment and team development stages
• Survey new indicators for implementing compassionate high-performance attributes in leadership models to challenge contemporary societal constructs that are inflexible
• Adopt multidimensional and collaborative behaviours and growth mindsets to sensitively respond to socially established and emergent issues in workplace cultures
• Use compassionate leadership alongside team reflexivity (review and adapt) to minimise the negative impacts of seemingly tick-box exercises
• Adapt and employ multidimensional approaches to critically inform workplace practices of leadership and team formation
• Employ intergroup bias elimination practices to create sustainable and realistically inclusive teams
• Reconfigure best practice by exploring current models of burnout prevention in literature related to large and mid-ranging size organisations
• Try new leadership lenses to address team collaboration before inciting inclusion as non-collaborative team reflexivity eliminates equitable outcomes and negatively impacts organisational deliverables
• Formulate new team review methodologies which will cater for situational changes at pace
• Utilise multilevel and mixed-method toolkits to align leadership styles and team capability to review and adapt (reflexivity)

Is this course right for me? 

The learning is recommended for newly appointed clinicians, occupational psychologists, and general clinically oriented staff who face challenging aspects of leadership styles and team development either in their own profession or in areas where they support groups and individuals.

We also invite a wide-ranging professional audience as both established scholars, early careers and those from industries other than healthcare and psychology (and academe) can benefit.

While frontline healthcare teams can benefit remarkably, so could colleagues in the hospitality industries specifically those working in professions that are psychologically categorised as "highly emotionally laboured".

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