Self-Leadership and Personal Resilience in Health and Social Care / Edition 1

by Jane Holroyd

Overview

This is essential reading for professionals making judgements under pressure. It demonstrates how self-leadership is not only about surviving but thriving in a continually changing environment and introduces key theories, skills and debates to help professionals deliver high quality professional practice every day. The book focuses in on the quality of professional thinking, self- and social awareness, self-regulation and self-management, and the fundamentals of sustained resilience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473916241
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/14/2015
Series:	Post-Qualifying Social Work Leadership and Management Handbooks
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jane Holroyd MBE has over 25 years' experience in the development and delivery of services within the NHS. She was awarded an MBE for her achievements and services to nursing and critical care. Seconded to the Leadership Centre, where she was responsible for Medical and Nurse Director Leadership programmes and associated links with Europe, she was the author of Improving Personal and Organisational Performance in Social Work and the co-author of Performance Coaching Skills for Social Work. She specialises in leadership and organisational development and is a public sector coach.

Table of Contents

Leadership theories
What is self-leadership?
The foundations of self-leadership
What determines state of mind
Self-leadership - neuroscience implications
Self-leadership and resilience a key to appropriate professional judgement under pressure