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Rachel Morris is a GP who works for Red Whale (“one of the leading providers of primary care medical education in the UK”) In this podcast Rachel describes two courses that Red Whale run aimed at developing leadership skills in primary care leaders. The first is Lead. Manage. Thrive! – a very popular one day course in management skills for GPs. The second is a new course on Working At Scale. Rachel explains how and why the programmes were developed, who the training is aimed at and what the courses cover.

Show Notes

What is Red Whale and Rachel’s involvement (43secs)

Why “Red Whale”?! (1min 34secs)

The “Lead. Manage. Thrive!” Course – the essence of leadership training (1min 51secs)

What participants value most (3mins 29secs)

A taster in a day (4mins 36secs)

Who is the course aimed at? (5mins 11secs)

The training is not just for younger GPs (6mins 06secs)

What else is covered in the course? Managing conflict and managing upwards (7mins 24secs)

Constructive conflict (8mins 41secs)

Dealing with conflict in the training (9mins 35secs)

The new course on working at scale (10mins 21secs)

Is working at scale the future? – The “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” driving change (11mins 27secs)

Safety in numbers (13mins 21secs)

Red Whale’s three main options for working at scale (14mins 33secs)

Does size make a difference? (16mins 05secs)

Focussing on the “why” (16mins 54secs)

The difficult parts of working at scale (17mins 40secs)

The interpersonal elements (19mins 06secs)

Who is this “working at scale” course aimed at? (20mins 16secs)

Finding out more (20mins 50secs)

The Red Whale website is here

Information on the Lead. Manage. Thrive! Course is here

Information on the Working At Scale Course is here