Should midwifery leadership development programmes be based on the premise that leadership can be taught?
- Homeyard, Claire
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Is consultant midwife (public health) at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. She is also Director of the Polyanna Project. She has published and presented nationally and internationally and has represented midwifery at a number of regional and national forums, Including membership of the clinical working group for the Healthcare for London maternity and newborn care pathway and Midwifery 2020.
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‘…all actors have the same access to the written lines of any given play, yet some bring to their roles a quality which seems to give special life to the part being played and result in what many onlookers perceive as a distinctive, original and great performance. True, these actors have learned their lines; that is a necessary condition for an acceptable performance, but not sufficient for a great one. So they have learned something else, something that transcends the mere recitation of words. What is it that leaders learn and how?’
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