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Addicted2success
Plenty of advice on success here - includes motivation, quotes, lifestyle, podcasts and videos - http://addicted2success.com/.
Art of Brilliance
This website promotes positive thinking and making the most of the resources that you have. It also has free downloads: http://www.artofbrilliance.co.uk/ - and see its resources at http://www.artofbrilliance.co.uk/resources (ebooks, podcasts and videos).
Elaine Bailey life coaching
Some thought-provoking blogs here:
- http://www.elainebaileyinternational.com/wordpress/blog/
- http://www.elainebaileyinternational.com/wordpress/2013/09/hows-your-sense-of-direction-do-you-know-where-youre-growing-to/
- http://www.elainebaileyinternational.com/wordpress/2013/10/do-you-have-the-energy-to-get-the-job-done/#.
Boards
Building the best boards – HBR: https://hbr.org/2004/05/building-better-boards/ar/1 . Includes 'What makes great boards great' - Jeffrey A Sonnenfeld: http://bgcaboards.org/wp-content/uploads/Sonnenfeld-What-makes-great-boards-great.pdf
Creativity Tools - An Overview
If you want to think innovatively, you need to observe what is going on around you. We are used to viewing situations from our own personal perspectives. However, by developing the skill of looking at things in a variety of different ways, you can make new connections and lateral leaps. Brainstorming, Six Thinking Hats, That's impossible, Fresh eyes, Wish for the seemingly impossible, Simple rules to thinking differently, Affinity diagram (this is a structured brainstorm): https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/thinking-creatively-overview/ for a PDF with links to the individual sections, and http://www.miltonkeynesccg.nhs.uk/resources/uploads/files/NHS%20III%20Handbook%20serviceimprove.pdf for the whole book of quality and service improvement tools.
Anne Marie Crowley
An interesting article from this coaching website from https://crowleypersonalchange.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/make-it-or-break-it-with-habits-for-2015/ (and click on the previous and next buttons at the top to read some other interesting blogs and via the home page - https://crowleypersonalchange.wordpress.com/).
Elevator pitch
Your elevator pitch needs an elevator pitch: https://hbr.org/2014/12/your-elevator-pitch-needs-an-elevator-pitch.
The future of cities, information and inclusion
This is a very exciting website from which you can download a brilliant diagram of a 10 year forecast - http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/human-settlement/the-future-of-cities-information-and-inclusion/.
Atul Gawande
Compelling Also Reith lectures - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/reith ( and scroll down to 2016): Why Doctors Fail, The Century of the System, The Problem of Hubris, and The Idea of Wellbeing - podcasts to listen to or to download and keep forever. Also there an interesting talk from him on 'The difference between coaching and teaching' - the gap between competent and excellence which occurs in complex tasks, and how coaching approach can help - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VabtGPVVihA.
A History of Ideas
Excellent BBC radio 4 series with animated videos and back up notes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04bwydw.
Ignite
These are events in over 100 cities worldwide. At the events Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes. A wide variety of topics – and some good examples of how to make effective PowerPoint presentations! See http://igniteshow.com/.
Information is Beautiful
Do you need some inspiration on how to present your data in way that is eye catching and informative? Then visit this site to be inspired! http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/.
Improve your productivity, reduce your stress
Five minutes that could reduce your stress and increase your productivity. Listen to these podcasts from the Mental Health Foundation at: http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/information/wellbeing-podcasts/?entryid24=62272.
iTunes
There is a phenomenal amount of free material available on iTunes. For example, the Poynter Institute on http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/what-great-bosses-know/id380130790?ign-mpt=uo%3D2. Just use the iTunes search engine imaginatively!
Leadership movies
Need inspiration? Try looking at Inspirational video clips on leadership at: http://www.simpletruths.com/movies.asp, for example:
- http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/the-essence-of-leadership/
- http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/the-power-of-teamwork/
- http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/attitude-is-everything/.
http://uk.linkedin.com/ - for inspiration from thought leaders, and from fellow professionals you know - and those you don't. And there are thousands of discussion groups too - including the Institute of Healthcare Management's own discussion group for members.
Measuring well-being
From the New Economics Foundation - https://measure.whatworkswellbeing.org/ .
Mindgym
The Mindgym blog (“The latest thinking on thinking”) is well worth taking a look at as there are some useful and practical articles here - http://uk.themindgym.com/home/ and resources are at https://uk.themindgym.com/resources from which you can access blogs, recorded webinars and white papers from the drop-down menu from the resources tab.
Personal and career goals
This could be done in respect of any 12 month period, not just at the New Year - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/career-advice/experts/what-will-your-personal-theme-be-for-2015/article22161050/.
The Rise of HR - Wisdom from thought leaders.
A very good (and free) ebook (560 pages). It's an anthology of essays by 73 of the world's leading HR voices addressing the critical issues facing business and talent professionals: https://www.cipd.co.uk/Images/the-rise-of-hr-wisdom-from-73-thought-leaders_2015_tcm18-15549.pdf
Slideshare
This website is operated by LinkedIn and offers users the ability to upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios. You can find out more at https://www.slideshare.net/about , the most popular are at http://www.slideshare.net/popular and you can search at http://www.slideshare.net/search (e.g. there are over 800,000 presentations on ‘leadership’! - http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=leadership).
Stanford Social Innovation Review
‘Informing and inspiring leaders of social change’: http://www.ssireview.org/.
TED Talks (Technology, Education, Design)
This is a massive collection of over 2,800 20-minute video talks on a huge number of interesting subjects – “ideas worth spreading”. There are dozens of talks on leadership, management and health (use the search engine on this site). Inspiring - http://www.ted.com/talks.
TED Talks - some recommendations
- Simon Sinek TED Talk - How great leaders inspire action: http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action
- 12 excellent talks to inspire (at any time of the year!): http://www.ted.com/playlists/217/talks_to_inspire_new_year_s_re
- 20 most popular TED talks of all time: http://www.ted.com/playlists/171/the_most_popular_talks_of_all
- TED Talks that can help you reach your career goals this year: http://www.ted.com/playlists/209/counterintuitive_career_advice
- How to manage for collective creativity: https://www.ted.com/talks/linda_hill_how_to_manage_for_collective_creativity?language=en
- Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “has" a genius. http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius?language=en
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi asks "What makes a life worth living?" and he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow." : http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow
- The Science of Setting goals: http://ideas.ted.com/the-science-of-setting-goals/
- Author Isabel Allende is 71. In this candid talk, meant for viewers of all ages, she talks about her fears as she gets older and shares how she plans to keep on living passionately: http://www.ted.com/talks/isabelle_allende_how_to_live_passionately_no_matter_your_age
- Matthieu Ricard: What is altruism? Put simply, it's the wish that other people may be happy. And, says a happiness researcher and a Buddhist monk, altruism is also a great lens for making decisions, both for the short and long term, in work and in life: http://www.ted.com/talks/matthieu_ricard_how_to_let_altruism_be_your_guide?utm_source=newsletter_dai.
https://twitter.com/. Where to begin? Try #Leaders, #Leadership, #Leadtoday, #Leadchange, #Leadershipchat, #Management, #Managers, #Emotionalintelligence, #Communication.
The Young Foundation
The Young Foundation brings together insights, innovation and entrepreneurship to meet social needs - http://www.youngfoundation.org/.
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/ (or www.youtube.co.uk for the UK version) - try using the search engine imaginatively (there are over 26 million videos on ‘leadership’, over 22 million on 'management' and over 58 million on 'health' - so be very selective!).
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.
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