A few years ago in relation to my role, I was informed I had to be professionally curious. My assessment and management plan needed to include this skill especially when safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. Professional curiosity is commonly cited in serious case reviews, regulatory inspections and now included as a core skill in many…

 How does it Overlap with Learning and Education? Society and professional knowledge often dampens our innate curiosity. Children are curious about the world. They ask endless questions about how it works and constantly ask the question, why? As you get older, society drums this out of you. In school, everyone follows the same curriculum, universities…

What is Clinical Supervision? Over the last few decades, Clinical Supervision has become part of the requirements of nursing and wider professions such as therapists and is recommended in public policy statements alongside regulatory inspections. Credible research evidence has accumulated to demonstrate that supervision has a positive effect on the well-being and workplace burnout (studies…

Elon Musk has provided an interesting perspective, focusing on productivity and achievement without recognising human wellbeing, burnout and how belonging counts so I will observe how his organisations move forward. I believe we need to challenge the hero status of sleeping in the office and how hard we are working to how good our decisions…

My Learning Journey and Clinical Governance As some-one with a lengthy career in health, I have had governance in my roles as both a nurse, doctor and in strategic leadership. My first experience of governance was being the COSHH representative on ITU and being part of the implementation team for closed suction systems in the…

By watching children, we can observe an enthusiasm for learning, for play and for making mistakes but in our educational system and working environment, we are encouraged to see the world in black and white, with correct and incorrect answers, following rules and protocols. We are discouraged from play and experimentation and have lost our…

Since considering civility when it was presented at a Freedom to Speak Up Conference https://www.civilitysaveslives.com/, rudeness and manners and the impact on those around us continues to be important. We recognise that different cultural norms and those with neurodiversity may be disadvantaged within this convention. We also need to consider how  teaching negotiation skills is…

I have rewritten this in line with the understanding on delivering supervision to our workforce and its role in creating confident practitioners who are able to be flexible in a changing landscape. As part of our Wisdom Academy, we have delivered educational content to support continuous improvement and a personal learning journey. At the heart…

The relationship between leadership, management and organisational performance is well recognised. Less discussed, but equally important — is the relationship between leadership and followership, and how both shape culture, safety and success. Over time, I have become increasingly interested not simply in leadership itself, but in the ethical responsibilities that sit beneath it: servant leadership,…

I am reviewing this blog, a year or so after its initial writing and pleased to say psychological safety is embedded at Board level and how we enable it at a frontline. What is psychological safety? Psychological safety creates a space where we are included, safe to learn, safe to contribute, and safe to challenge…