The Leadership Hike

This timely, engaging and practical book explores why leadership matters in primary care, and how everyone can discover their leadership potential and use it to make a difference. Tailored specifically to the needs of primary care, and full of real-life clinical and management scenarios, the authors - both GPs as well as highly experienced leadership mentors - demonstrate how learning the art of leadership can be a significant and rewarding part of personal and professional development.

Dr Amar Rughani MBE was a senior partner in Chapelgreen practice Sheffield (30 years), Former Associate postgraduate Dean Yorkshire & the Humber GP School, Provost RCGP South Yorkshire North Trent faculty, former MRCGP examiner and curriculum developer and Honorary senior clinical lecturer at Sheffield University. In his educational career, he has developed personal development plans and written books for doctors and dentists on the subject. He has also written a book 'Becoming a GP' to help GP trainees preparing for the MRCGP and has contributed to a number of other GP books as co-author. He was blueprinting clinical lead for the RCGP and helped to develop the licensing examination(MRCGP) and the first GP curriculum. In recent years he has been developing leadership training and mentorship in Yorkshire & Humber deanery and it is this experience that informs this new book. In 2022 he was awarded an MBE for services to general practice. Dr Joanna Bircher is a GP in Greater Manchester. She is Clinical Director to the RCGP/Greater Manchester GP Excellence Programme, Clinical lead for Quality Improvement at Tameside and Glossop CCG , a Generation Q Fellow of the Health Foundation and a board member of AQuA (Advancing Quality Alliance). She has a Masters degree in Leadership for Quality Improvement from Ashridge Business School and is co-author of the RCGP Guide to Quality Improvement. Her particular interest is in making established QI methodology relevant and accessible for Primary Care.

Foreword. Preface. Authors. Our landscape: the complex world in which we work and lead. Context and organisational culture and how to influence it. Perspectives on leadership. Ourselves: Knowing me .... Reach higher, dig deeper. Inspire confidence and connection. Play to your strengths. Don't fit in. Use your limits. Our teams: Travelling well together. How we communicate is a choice we make. The art of a good conversation. Navigating communication complexities. Help people to grow. Keep people on track. Become a team. Energise and motivate. Lead the team to be their best. Adapt and survive. Our route and destination: Creating a path. Clarify vision and direction. Help the team to get more, and better, ideas. Create buy-in and build consensus. Chair effectively. Our tools: Making things better. What could be better?. Understand the problem. Treat improvement like an experiment and measure it. Change and how to manage it. A view from the top: A wider horizon. Be yourself. Index