Compassionate Leadership

• It’s about team capacity to lead not just individual capacity

• This means nurturing everyone’s leadership capacity, not just in a hierarchical sense

• There is a clear focus on stimulating and supporting quality improvement and innovation

• This needs trust and a new psychological contract, sharing power and decision making

• Compassion is central to this approach – empathy, listening, acting and valuing our people

A range of resources are available below, providing further reading around the definition and behaviours of compassionate leadership, including a broad evidence base: