Appendix 1 : Leadership, Management and Teamwork
The 'ideal' leader is able to combine leading transformational change with transactional management - both are needed to deliver services in an era of change. An individual's strengths may be greater as a leader or as a manager, however, but through teamwork, a group of individuals can provide the blend of ability to drive transformational change and deliver it.

Appendix 2 : L eadership Qualities: Descriptors (In no order of importance)
QUALITIES | DESCRIPTORS | Reference to supporting behaviours | Reference to supporting KSF CORE+ |
Personal Qualities |
Personal Governance: (See detail in Appendix 3) | ¦ commitment to service excellence ¦ integrity and probity ¦ account for performance ¦ engage with others in decision-making ¦ develop team and self | See detail in Appendix 4 | |
Personal Management: | ¦ self-awareness ¦ emotional competence & consistency ¦ articulate and live by values ('being-the-talk') | See detail in Appendix 4 | |
Knowledge Management: | ¦ asking the hard questions proactively ¦ listening empathetically to understand ¦ maintaining a contemporary knowledge of best practice | See detail in Appendix 4 | K3 |
Service Excellence |
Ensuring Focus: | ¦ directing attention to the key issues ¦ regulating the temperature (managing pace and stress) | | G5 HWB |
Delivering Governance: (clinical, staff, financial/corporate) | ¦ looking after the needs of patients, staff and the public ¦ balancing risks | | G4/G6 HWB |
Achieving Results: and accountability approach | ¦ creating a climate of performance delivery ¦ resolving complex problems through a win: win | | G5 |
Future Focus |
Identifying goals: | ¦ creating purpose with a focus on outcomes ¦ shaping and articulating the future with passion | | G8 |
Creating and making choices: | ¦ thinking flexibly and innovatively ¦ making choices in uncertainty and ambiguity ¦ taking risks with political astuteness | | G2/G8 |
Developing capability and capacity with partners: culture | ¦ building relationships and partnerships which recognise interdependency and which share learning ¦ instilling a staff, team and organisational development | | G1/G7 |
Leading Change: secure goals | ¦ aligning people, structures, systems and processes to ¦ seizing technological solutions to improve healthcare ¦ inspiring others and unleashing energy to change | | G2 |
Appendix 3 : Leaders'/Managers' Code Of Personal Governance
As a NHS Scotland Leader/Manager I will:
- Pursue service excellence by
- ensuring patients'/clients' needs are at the centre of decision-making
- seeking to protect patients/clients and staff from clinical and environmental risk
- encouraging service excellence and supporting changes to make this a reality
- Act with integrity and probity by
- communicating with openness and honesty in all matters including handling complaints and giving feedback to staff
- ensuring confidential and constructive communication
- managing resources and financial risk effectively and efficiently
- ensuring personal integrity and probity at all times
- seeking to protect patients/clients and NHS resources from fraud, inducements and corruption
- Account for my own and my team's performance by
- taking responsibility for my own and my team's performance
- complying with all statutory requirements
- providing appropriate explanations on performance
- acting on suggestions/requirements for improving performance
- supporting the Accountable Officer of my organisation in his/her responsibilities
- Engage appropriately with others in decision-making by
- ensuring that patients, the public, staff and partner organisations are able to influence decision-making in relation to NHS services
- supporting effective and informed decision-making by patients about their own care
- seeking out the views of others and building mutual understanding
- ensuring clarity and consistency in relation to dual accountability
- Develop my team and myself by
- building and developing effective teams, supported by appropriate leadership
- instilling trust and giving freedom to staff/partners to make decisions within authority
- being aware of and taking responsibility for my behaviour and continuous personal development as a NHS leader/manager, to ensure my fitness for purpose.
Appendix 4 : L eadership Behaviours: some examples
PERSONAL QUALITIES | POSITIVE BEHAVIOURS | NEGATIVE BEHAVIOURS |
PERSONAL GOVERNANCE |
Commitment to service excellence | - Challenges decisions not based on patients'/clients' needs
- Recognises and rewards excellence
- Celebrates 'success'
- Diagnoses and tackles poor performance
| - Makes/supports decisions without patients'/clients' needs at the centre
- Rewards poor practice
- Rewards or takes a punitive approach to poor performance
|
Integrity and probity | - Truthful
- Open approach to issues
- Lets people say 'No', otherwise 'Yes' is meaningless
- Respects confidentiality of information consistently
- Checks potential probity issues
| - Deceptive/dishonest/manipulative
- Hides and encrypts information
- 'Yes-men' abound
- Gossips confidential information
- Flaunts/ignores potential probity issues
|
Account for performance | - Accepts responsibility and accountability
- Gives credit where credit is due
- Challenges micro-management
- Gives clear, concise, timely explanations - no surprises
- Ensures information is organised to show good/poor performance
| - 'Passes the buck'
- Takes credit for others' work
- Promotes dependency culture
- Withholds or is late with information - lots of surprises!
- Information about performance is poorly organised/ignored
|
Engage with others | - Promotes spirit of co-operation and interdependency
- Seeks first to understand
- Encourages meaningful dialogue at the earliest opportunity
- Develops shared vision
- Flexible
| - Suspicious - promotes independency
- Seeks first to be understood
- Clique led decision-making
- Keeps others in the dark
- Rigid - imposes change
|
Develop self and team | - Builds self-belief and 'can do'
- Gives freedom to make decisions within authority
- Lets go - take risks
- Instils trust
- Values everyone as individuals
- Uses inclusive language
- Understands and values cultural differences
- Shows willingness to change and learn from mistakes
- Encourages appropriate behavour
| - Destroys confidence
- Control, control, control
- Promotes oppressive, complex accountability
- Manipulative - other agenda
- Views everyone as 'the same'
- Uses discriminatory language
- Uses a 'diversity-blind' approach
- Knows-it-all
- Inappropriate behaviour isn't challenged
|
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT |
Self-awareness | - Takes time to reflect
- Values honest feedback
- Realistic about strengths and limitations
- Seeks help
| - Blind spots - doesn't seek out feedback
- Avoids potential weakening of personal power base by indicating personal limitations
- Expectations of self/others unrealistic
|
Emotional competence and consistency | - Positive and enthusiastic
- Consistent behaviour
- Mature, constructive behaviour
- Warmth - easy to approach
- Respects others
- Handles others' emotions appropriately
| - Negative/cynical
- Moody
- 'Toys out of pram'/vindictive/ bullying behaviour
- Cool - approached only when essential
- Lacks respect for others
- Insensitive to others' emotions
|
Articulate and live by values | - Practices what s/he preaches
- Keeps promises - follows through
| - Words and actions don't match
- Lets others down - doesn't make it happen
|
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT |
Asking the hard questions proactively | - Challenges status quo
- Creates climate of support and accountability
| - Prefers the status quo
- Creates climate of blame
|
Listening empathetically to understand | - Open to new ideas
- Shows genuine concern
- Tests comprehension and summarises
| - Closed to new thinking - blocks
- Superficial interest in others
- Assumes understanding - content with loose ends
|
Maintaining a contemporary knowledge of best practice | - Seeks comparisons and encourages change
- Ensures teaching and R&D are integral to improve service delivery
| - Reacts to externally driven change
- Does not maximise the benefit of teaching and R&D to improve service delivery
|
Appendix 5 : SEHD / NHS Board Development Leads: Contact Details
Board | Name/title | Address |
SEHD | Ashleigh Dunn, Head of Leadership Development | HR Directorate, SEHD, St Andrew's House, Regent Road Edinburgh EH1 3DG 0131 244 2814 |
Hazel Mackenzie, Programme Manager (Strategic Clinical Leadership)r | 0131 244 2319 |
Jill Sandford, Programme Manager (Management Training Scheme) | 0131 244 3451 |
NHS Argyll & Clyde | Judith Ward, OD Director | Ross House, Hawkhead Road, Paisley PA2 7BN 0141 842 7271 |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | Chris Lisle, Director of Organisation and Human Resources Development | Boswell House 10 Arthur Street, Ayr KA7 1QJ 01292 885 840 |
NHS Borders | Sandy Burnham, OD Co-ordinator | Newstead Melrose Roxburghshire TD6 9DB 01896 828282 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | Sharon Millar, Head of OD | Mid North Crichton Hall, The Crichton, Dumfries DG1 4TG 01387 244 039 |
NHS Fife | David Christie, OD Director | Cameron House Cameron Bridge Leven, Fife KY8 5RG 01592 712 812 Ext 330 |
NHS Forth Valley | Vicki Masters, Organisational Development Manager | Primary Care Operating Division Old Denny Road Larbert FK5 4SD 01324 404 240 |
NHS Grampian | Anne Inglis, Head of Learning & Development | Summerfield House 2 Eday Road Aberdeen, AB15 6RE 01224 558 532 |
NHS Greater Glasgow (Single lead TBC) | Juli McQueen, Head of OD and Training, Glasgow Primary Care Trust | Gartnavel Royal Hospital 1055 Great Western Rd Glasgow G12 OXH 0141 211 3852 |
Ann Crumley, Head of Training & Development | North Glasgow University Hospitals Division 0131 201 4200 |
NHS Highland | Lynn Marsland, Head of Learning & OD | John Dewar Building Highlander Way Inverness IV2 7GE 01463 706877 |
NHS Lanarkshire | Kenneth Small, OD Director | Airbles Road Centre Airbles Road Motherwell ML1 2JT 01698 245 003 |
NHS Lothian | David Lee, Associate Director | Royal Edinburgh Hospital Morningside Edinburgh EH10 5HF 0131 536 9179 |
NHS Orkney | Fiona Smith, Head of HR | Garden House New Scapa Road Kirkwall, Orkney KW15 1BQ 01856 888298 |
NHS Shetland | Lorraine Hall, Head of HR | Brevik House Outh Road, Lerwick Shetland ZE 1 0TG 01595 743024 |
NHS Tayside | Carrie Ferrier, Head of OD and Modernisation | Acute Services Division Level 10, Ninewells Hospital Dundee, DD1 9SY 01382 660111 Ext 33750 |
NHS Western Isles | Kay Young,OD Director | 37 South Beach Street Stornoway Isle of Lewis H51 2BB 01851 702997 |
National Services Scotland | Chris Murphy, Interim HR Director | Gyle Square 1 South Gyle Crescent Edinburgh EH12 9EB 0131 275 6000 |
NHS 24 | Linda Lynch, Head of Learning & Development | 5th Floor, Golden Jubilee National Hospital Beardmore Street Clydebank G81 4HX 0141 435 7365 |
NHS Education | Marian Wrigley, Director of Human Resources | NHS Education for Scotland 2nd Floor, Hanover Buildings 66 Rose Street, Edinburgh EH2 2NN 0131 220 8610 |
NHS Health Scotland | Gavin Speers, OD Manager | Woodburn House Canaan Lane Edinburgh EH10 4SG 0131 536 5510 |
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (QIS) | Kathlyn McKellar, Head of HR | Elliott House 8-10 Hillside Crescent Edinburgh EH7 5EA 0131 623 4591 |
Scottish Ambulance Service | Shirley Rogers, HR Director | National Headquarters Tipperlinn Road Edinburgh EH10 5UU 0131 446 7010 |
State Hospitals | Ian Jones, Learning and Development Director | The State Hospitals Board Headquarters Carstairs, Lanark ML11 8RP 01555 840 293 ext. 551 |
Golden Jubilee National Hospital | Roisin Houston, Training & Development Manager | The Golden Jubilee National Hospital Beardmore Street, Clydebank, Glasgow G81 4HX 0141 951 500 ext 5243 |
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