Compassionate Leadership involves a focus on relationships through careful listening to, understanding, empathising with and supporting other people, enabling those we lead to feel valued, respected and cared for, so they can reach their potential and do their best work. There is clear evidence that compassionate leadership results in more engaged and motivated staff with high levels of wellbeing, which in turn results in high-quality care.
Introduction to Compassionate Leadership
Compassionate Leadership Model
As organisational culture is shaped by the nature of its leadership, it therefore follows that our leadership strategy will be underpinned by a ompassionate leadership model which includes the following key features:
Team capacity to lead,
not just individual capacity
Nurturing everyone’s leadership capacity, not just in a hierarchical sense
A clear focus on stimulating and supporting quality improvement and innovation
Needs trust and a new psychological contract, sharing power and decision making
Compassion is central – empathy, listening, acting and valuing our people
Are you a Compassionate Leader?
The Compassionate Leadership Self-Assessment and 360 Evaluation allows users to evaluate themselves against a number of statements aligned to the Compassionate Leadership Principles and be evaluated by their peers. This tool provides visual reporting against the principles as well as bespoke selections of resources based on the users responses to allow targeted development to provide best use of time and highest impact.
The Compassionate Leadership Self-Assessment and 360 Evaluation is only available to Gwella Account Holders. Sign up to Gwella today .