by John-Paul Crofton | May 19, 2025 | Health and Wellbeing, Leadership, Leadership & Decision Making, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Purpose & Wellbeing
The big career decision is one full of anxiety and stress. It can feel overwhelming, it feels your whole life and future depends on it. The fact we are considering a change in a career means we don’t know what the outcome will be. How do we navigate this stressful...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 23, 2025 | Leadership, Budgeting, Change Management, Engagement, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership & Decision Making, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making
The NHS is having to cut costs, to save £6.6 billion, but why is the approach of Wes Streeting the Health Minister acting as a terrible role model and leading the health service down a dangerous path? The NHS Budget Cutting CrisisCuts to Local Systems.A Rotten Role...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 20, 2025 | Leadership & Decision Making, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership, Motivation, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making
The spiral of control and power explains a common psychological pattern of how even well intentioned managers such as those in healthcare, find themselves focusing on control and power. Controlling Managers in Healthcare.The 3 Big Shifts in the NHS Require...
by John-Paul Crofton | Jan 22, 2025 | Leadership & Decision Making, Change Management, Creativity & Innovation, Fundamentals, Leadership, Learning, Motivation, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Public Services Innovation, Social Innovation
All too often a team groups together to do a brainstorming session to solve a problem. But despite the excitement the outcome is a disappointing failure: The ‘Minimum Acceptable Solution’, IntroductionWhat is Brainstorming and Group Problem Solving?The Excitement of...
by John-Paul Crofton | Sep 30, 2024 | NHS, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership, Leadership & Decision Making
The NHS is broken according to the UK Prime Minister. The NHS is at a crossroads once again, with fresh discussions of reform and yet another plan being proposed aimed at ‘fixing’ what’s deemed a broken system. But will a plan work? Can we learn from how other plans...
by John-Paul Crofton | May 8, 2024 | Leadership & Decision Making, Leadership, Learning, Problem Solving & Decision Making
Decision Making is the art of learning to make better choices. Making a good decision is not about making the RIGHT DECISION. This leads to the most common mistake in decision making, the Einstellung Effect: getting stuck repeating the same old ‘right’...
