Guest Editorial June 2011
The guest editorial for June has been written by Helen Elmore who presented on the topic The Productive Leader Programme during the Expert on Call on 16th June 2011. Follow this link to hear the recording of the session.
Improving personal and team productivity with The Productive Leader
Helen is the lead for the Productive Leader. Before joining the Productives team, Helen worked on the NHS Institute's Living our Local Values programme which enabled NHS organisations to develop and embed values locally and use this work to drive improvements. Helen is currently a member of a multi-partnership team, working with the Royal College of General Practitioners Centre for Commissioning, shaping the Productive Commissioning Team module within a new Commissioning Competency Framework to support GP Consortia.
Helen has worked in the NHS since 1999, initially based at the Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust and then within the NHS Leadership Centre, part of the NHS Modernisation Agency.
The current context
The Productive Leader is one of six programmes in the Productive Series. Based on lean principles and developed in co-production with the NHS, the Productive Leader encompasses all aspects of personal productivity and targets high impact areas which offer the biggest opportunities for improvement. The Productive Leader can help shape the right behaviours, tools and processes for staff to get things right first time and sustain quality improvements.
This is both a transformational and a transactional programme – so as much about behavioural change, as it is about looking at the processes we have in place to do our day-to-day work. By adopting and embedding best practice in the way we manage our workload, run meetings and deal with email, we can get the best out of ourselves and our teams. The aim of the programme is to instil a culture of leadership improvement at all levels of your organisation
The Productive Leader is particularly relevant in today's NHS when we are consistently being asked to do more with the same or less resources. The NHS is determined to ensure that cuts in budgets do not have to mean reduced quality of care. Quality can still improve in these challenging times and this webex will help you identify ways to release time to reinvest in value adding activities.
Questions you might wonder about
- How can the Productive Leader help my team work more productively?
- How do we continue to take on more work when we're already so busy?
- How can I add value to my role without working additional hours?
- How can I get control of my inbox when I feel that email rules my working day?
- How do I make better use of the time currently allocated to meetings?
What will I learn?
- Different options for implementing the Productive Leader
- Good practice take-aways for personal and team productivity, focussing on email management, workload management and meetings management
- How the programme has made an impact in NHS organisations
