General resources

BBC In Business

Details of recent programmes are at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006s609. There is also an ‘In Business’ archive (going right back to 2002) available from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/archive.shtml.

Business link

Although Business Link now no longer seems to exist, there is a government helpline via https://www.gov.uk/business-support-helpline and also access to business planning templates, etc at https://www.gov.uk/write-business-plan.

Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

http://www.managers.org.uk/. Unfortunately many resources are only available to members, but there is some material generally available from an 'Insights' section at http://www.managers.org.uk/insights Women members of the Chartered Management Institute can affiliate to Women in Management (WiM) at no extra cost. If you are interested, email: wim@managers.org.uk for further information. WiM operates nationwide and has around 2000 members who meet in regional groups.

Deloitte

The main website of this management consultancy firm is http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_GB/uk/index.htm . The public sector part of its website is http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_GB/uk/industries/government-public-sector/index.htm.

Dogpile search engines

Can’t find what you are researching on the internet via Google or one of the other search engines? How about trying http://www.dogpile.com/ . This fetches and ranks results from multiple search engines – “all the search engines piled into one” - a metasearch engine. It is in effect, a search engine of other search engines - which could increase your choice of sites.

Dropbox

‘is the easiest way to store, sync and share files online.’ There's no complicated interface to learn: https://www.dropbox.com/.

Emerald

www.emeraldinsight.com. This is a leading publisher of management research, and you may already have login authorisation to access to their publications via your Athens password. This section appears to have news and resources on leadership that are available to all - http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/realworldresearch/leadership.htm. In addition there is an open access section at https://www.emeraldinsight.com/page/openaccess.

EY (formerly Ernst & Young)

The main website of this management consultancy firm is http://www.ey.com/UK/en/home . The healthcare section is at http://www.ey.com/UK/en/Industries/Government---Public-Sector/Healthcare or you may need to use its search engine to find items about health.

Evernote

Evernote is an 'easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.' You can learn more about this at the Evernote website at https://evernote.com/ and get the app from app stores, e.g. at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8.

Foundation of Nursing Leadership

This website - http://www.nursingleadership.org.uk/ provides the clinical and leadership news, clinical leadership resources, publictions, articles and research, and free online leadership assessments. There is a link to the website ‘presenting magically’ seminar; www.nursingleadership.org.uk/seminars/seminar_presenting.php and the career strengths test is on www.nursingleadership.org.uk/test3.php. Other free tools are at http://www.nursingleadership.org.uk/resources_free.php.

Free open source office software

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/free-office-software (and scroll down)

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010005/5-free-open-source-alternatives-to-microsoft-office.html.

Google Scholar

Have you discovered Google Scholar? Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for academic literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organisations. See http://scholar.google.co.uk/.

Professor Muir Gray

Some interesting blogs here: http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/category/muir-gray/.

The Hay Group

Useful websites for leadership issues are on www.haygroup.com and http://www.haygroup.com/uk/ . Its library is at https://www.haygroup.com/en/our-library/ and blogs are at https://blog.haygroup.com/ . There is a good little publication called ‘The ins and outs of successful leadership’ at http://www.haygroup.com/downloads/uk/Leadership_brochure_H%20labels.pdf. Its leadership competencies for NHS Foundation Trusts are outlined at http://www.haygroup.com/uk/downloads/details.aspx?id=20636.

iManage Performance

Blogs are at https://imanageperformance.com/blog.

The Leadership Hub

http://www.theleadershiphub.com/. There are plenty of interesting things to explore here with lots of blogs, videos and groups: Blogs are at https://www.theleadershiphub.com/blog, videos at https://www.theleadershiphub.com/videos, its book club at https://www.theleadershiphub.com/book-club and its visual library of infographics at https://www.theleadershiphub.com/infographics

Leadership Now

This is a useful website http://www.leadershipnow.com/ (although it has an American slant), with leading thoughts (http://www.leadershipnow.com/quotes.html), leading articles (http://www.leadershipnow.com/articles.html), leading blogs (http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadingblog/index.html) and leadership minute (http://www.leadershipnow.com/minute.html) – and it has some particularly good links to other leadership websites at http://www.leadershipnow.com/connections.html.

KPMG

The main website of this management consultancy firm is https://home.kpmg.com/uk/en/home.html. Healthcare insights and reports are at http://www.kpmg.com/uk/en/industry/healthcare/pages/default.aspx?utm_medium=mdd&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=&utm_content=healthcare

The Healthcare section is at http://www.kpmg.com/uk/en/industry/publicsector/healthcare/pages/default.asp

McKinsey

The main website of this management consultancy firm is http://www.mckinsey.com/ and insights and publications are at http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights. The UK site is at https://www.mckinsey.com/uk. Its Healthcare section is at https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/how-we-help-clients/impact-stories.

NHS Leadership Academies

The national NHS Leadership Academy had a collection of resources at https://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/resources/ . In addition, the regional academies have their own collections. For example the London Leadership Academy has resources at https://www.londonleadershipacademy.nhs.uk/resources. The resources section of Thames Valley and Wessex Leadership Academy is at http://www.tvwleadershipacademy.nhs.uk/resources. The resources section of the South West Leadership Academy is at http://www.southwestleadership.nhs.uk/resources. The East of England has some videos and a helpful collection of articles which you can download as pdfs - https://eoeleadership.hee.nhs.uk/resources_videos_articles .

PwC

The public sector part of this management consultancy firm’s website is http://www.pwc.co.uk/government-public-sector/index.jhtml. Its Healthcare section is at http://www.pwc.co.uk/government-public-sector/healthcare/index.jhtml.

Traverse (formerly the Office of Public Management)

https://traverse.ltd/ . Blogs and reports are at https://traverse.ltd/recent-work.

The links in this section have been tested and should still work, but this is a fast-changing world. If you find that any of the links do not work, or if you discover any new ones, or have any suggestions for additional resources, please email john.hunt@gmx.co.uk.