What has the coronavirus crisis told us about residential care? It
has told us that residential care puts older people at far greater
risk, which is ironic since the biggest reason for admission is the
perceived risk of remaining at home.
Life expectancy in residential care for older people is 2 to 3 years
and often less. Residential care for most people over 80 is not a
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The characteristics of effective leadership are the same in normal
times as they are during a crisis. The difference is that during a
crisis there is a temptation for leaders to do too much, to get over
involved, to become to narrowly focused and neglect their role in
anticipating the challenges further down the road.
A recent article in the Harvard Business Review identified the
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13 May 2020 - 12:56
Even a successful management team needs their talent pool rejuvenated
at regular intervals. Move too slowly and inevitably performance
declines . Move too fast and the instability and loss of expertise
leads inevitably to declining performance. Building on success
requires decisive often ruthless intervention.
You can only hold on to your more experienced and talented
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08 Jul 2020 - 11:38
Tony Soprano has never read a management book. Yet he
successfully manages a diverse workforce in a very competitive and
treacherous business environment. Tony doesn’t work long hours his
meetings are short, measured in minutes not hours. He rarely gets
involved in the day to day operation of the business he leaves that to
his captains telling them ,” It’s your job to make...
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09 May 2020 - 11:12
The poor make bad choices the first being their parents, the second
being where they were born.
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06 May 2020 - 11:23
null The Balloon Debate
Did you ever have a balloon debate at school? One day my younger
brother came home from primary school and as we sat round the tea
table told us that he had won the ballon debate. This was a new one on
us older kids so he explained that it involved being the last one to
get thrown out of an air ballon. This turned out to be not as
dangerous as it sounded but just as violent. A group...
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null Make HR your Friend
The best advice I could give any one moving into their first
management post.
There are lots of articles about why people hate HR and very few
on why you should befriend at least one person in HR. The job is about
people management as much as managing the budget and most managers
find that the people they work with cause them more problems than the
budget. Whether it’s...
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27 Apr 2020 - 10:46
In this case the sidelines could be the chief executive’s blog, the
senior managers road show or even the team meeting. There is getting
your instructions across, vocal encouragement and unhelpful criticism.
It doesn’t help to keep saying the same thing but louder or more
earnestly like the typical tourist abroad. It undoes the good feeling
if you praise some one for their effort and...
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25 Apr 2020 - 11:54
One asks permission the other seeks forgiveness.
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20 Apr 2020 - 09:17
When good fails to turn into great. When the sum of the parts isn’t
greater than the whole. When a talented senior management team never
quiet reaches the heights expected. Then people look at the leader.
What’s missing? It’s the Don Revie effect. What they might have and
should have been.
Revie’s psychological flaw was his insecurity reflected In his
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16 Apr 2020 - 10:59
The governments of the world conspire to keep the news of the end
of the world from their populations. This is the premise of a
Hollywood disaster movie. Fear of panic , mass hysteria and the
complete breakdown of law and order persuades governments around the
world to keep the impending doom an official secret. The worlds
greatest scientists race to come up with a plan to save...
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14 Apr 2020 - 21:29
null Talent v Character
What’s surprises me is that managers so readily recruit on
talent and then spend all their time addressing defects in the
individuals character when it is so much easier to coach skills and
impart knowledge.
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11 Apr 2020 - 15:04
Are people looking at a lot more pornography during the lockdown or
our providers just assuming they want to? Never mind bored house
wives, it’s sexy students and shameless girls that
fill my junk mail inbox. Some commentators have speculated that at the
end of lockdown there will be a surge in divorce applications and a
baby boom might there not also be a new audience for porn?...
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08 Apr 2020 - 12:41
What has this Pandemic told us about how people behave in a
crisis and how the authorities should manage that behaviour. Panic
buying causing unnecessary shortages, having a big last night out
before the lockdown officially starts and ignoring social distancing
to go for a walk in the countryside whilst the weather is good, these
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31 Mar 2020 - 12:39
If HR staff had thought bubbles above their head when in conversation
with managers then you would be able to see when they were thinking ,”
you really shouldn’t be telling me this”.
1) You can’t stand one of your team
If you tell a member of HR you can’t stand an individual in your
team how is it going to look if at a later date that individual
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23 Mar 2020 - 15:23
If it’s no longer about money, about budget cuts or being more
efficient. If it’s about being practice led rather than finance
driven, if it’s about effectiveness rather than cost then one outcome
of the response to Convid might be to finally make a reality of the
integration of health and social care.
If hospitals are not to be overwhelmed then patients need to be
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21 Mar 2020 - 18:14
null Crisis management
A crisis is exciting. Crisis management is a series of boring
meetings to plan for something that may never happen. There are so
many immediate and obvious challenges facing an organisation that very
few senior managers/ chief executives/ board members get excited about
joining the working group. Which explains why the person appointed to
chair the group is someone who wasn’t...
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12 Mar 2020 - 17:35
Statement by leader of the council in intro to top job advert. First sentence.
What skill, wizardry and determined delivery could you add to
iconic Cambridge, our international city of considerable magic?
I don’t think they are looking for a former graduate of Hogwarts.
Maybe it’s the wizardry that football correspondents refer to when
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10 Mar 2020 - 22:49
null A Tiger Team
We hacked the system to show how vulnerable it was to hackers. We
broke into the gallery and removed the priceless art work to show how
weak the security was. We inserted an operative to show how easy it
was to infiltrate the organisation.
A Tiger Team is set up to test ones own defences. A bit more
aggressive than a mystery shopper or unannounced inspection /audit but
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09 Mar 2020 - 12:12
Senior managers need the ability to hold an audience, to dominate a
room, to make people feel comfortable, as opposed to uncomfortable,in
their presence. It’s a skill and like any skill it can be learnt and
with practice and coaching improved. So it is surprising so many
senior managers neglect this aspect of their role. However things may
be about to change.
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