Leadership Course and Changing priorities

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Leadership Course and Changing priorities
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Foundation Trust
Dr Chandrashekar Shetty Consultant Chemical
Pathologist, WWL NHS FT, Wigan

• In the beginning
• Heard about the West Midlands pilot course and
  secretly wished a National rollout
• Email received about the National course in Early
  2010
• Telephone interview went well (I thought)
• Selected for the course and
• Started with great enthusiasm and gusto.
• Enjoyed the first day
• Learnt a lot of new concepts

• Highs ...
• Getting selected for the course
• Increasing awareness of my self and learning
  about my abilities
• Changing personal priorities
• Meeting and networking with a great bunch of
  people
• Increasing confidence in handling situations in
  work/life
• Improving emotional intelligence

• Quick Acceleration in learning process
• 7 habits of Covey
• Listening at 3 levels
• Leadership styles
• Emotional intelligence
• Learning about time management
• Art of delegation
• Giving and receiving feedback

• Lows
• Resulting poor finish to course and my
  involvement
• Unable to attend 3rd coaching session
• Unhappy about the ongoing delays in 360 degree
  process
• Time management issues persist

• Final Thoughts today
• Broken learning over these 8 months will be
  constantly revisited
• My immediate priorities have changed but
  leadership lessons learnt will serve me well in
  all fields of work and life.
• Immense satisfaction and relief of having endured
  the course and completing tasks to the best of my
  abilities in spite of various distractions.
• Numerous changes in the near future would lead to
  some trepidation but also confidence that I would
  be able to use some of the learning points during
  these changes
• Keen to continue with further management training.