Business consultant Ian Macdonald will lead this one day face to face study day exploring Systems Leadership within healthcare. Systems Leadership enables the leaders in an organisation to create the conditions where people at all levels can work productively to their potential.
It uses sound principles about human behaviour to create models of good leadership, organisational strategy, systems design and social process.
It provides leaders with tools that help to predict people’s behaviour in their organisation. It also helps to build effective systems which drive productive behaviour and lead to a more effective realisation of the organisation’s purpose.
In this one day event you will join our cohort of staff attending our full leadership programme.
Explore what is meant by systems leadership
Consider the universal values necessary for social cohesion
Examine the model of creating a culture using the three tools of leadership: systems, symbols and behaviours
Explore the nature of systems, particularly the Systems Matrix
Examine the four underlying principles that help create a productive, socially cohesive organisation
Consider the model of task formulation, assignment and review and of team leadership and membership
Consultant Clinical Psychologist ,
Dr Julie Highfield is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Lead for Organisational Health in Adult and Paediatric Critical Care, Cardiff. She is the National Project Director for Wellbeing in the Intensive Care Society. She has a long experience of working as a psychologist in medical and health care settings and works closely with staff in their experience of working in healthcare, as well as advising managers on matters of workforce wellbeing. Julie has worked with the British Psychological Society and its Division of Clinical Psychology in Wales. She led the BPS team writing the National Guidance for Staff in the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Julie works with the Welsh Assembly Government in various projects, including as the lead for Critical Care Workforce Task and Finish Group, and Modelling for Rehabilitation for patients post COVID-19, and the Wellbeing Conversation Tool. She has a number of publications and book chapters in the field of critical care, staff wellbeing, and leadership.
Macdonald Associates Consultancy
Ian is a chartered psychologist who graduated with Honours from Brunel University in London in 1972. He was an academic staff member at Brunel and continues to be associated there both as a consultant and as a Lifetime Honorary Fellow. His PhD thesis was about the development of identity of people with learning difficulties through work. He established Macdonald Associates Consultancy (MAC) in 1983. MAC works internationally and n partnership with other consultancies worldwide.
Ian is the co-author of Systems Leadership: Creating Positive Organisations (Macdonald, Burke and Stewart, Routledge 2018) which forms the basis of MAC’s work. Ian has developed Systems Leadership Theory (SLT) throughout his career as a set of integrated principles, concepts and tools to help create the conditions where people can work creatively and productively.
Over the past thirty years, Ian’s consultancy work has included many different countries, cultures and types of organisations, from indigenous communities to financial services, from mining to the Anglican Church from smelting aluminium in Siberia to psychology services in Denmark and he continues to work across all sectors. Since 2010 he has been working with schools and colleges in Far North Queensland and the Torres Straits. Combining SLT with new pedagogical approaches has resulted in significant improvements in student outcomes. (Improving Schools using Systems Leadership: Macdonald, Dixon and Tiplady Routledge 2020) He is also working with the Welsh Health Service on leadership and staff wellbeing.
Chief Executive, Intensive Care Society
Sandy began her career as a radiographer, which led to her undertaking a PhD in Child Health. Making the decision to move away from a clinical setting, Sandy gained a wealth of experience operating at a senior management level, leading strategy and change programmes for non profit organisations and membership bodies particularly those involved in professional education, training, standards, research and international development. Sandy joined the Society in 2017.