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Communicating & Connecting with Allied Health Professionals. Elaine Hunter Allied Health Professions Consultant #AHPDementia #ASAGM @elaineahpmh www.e l aineahpmhwordpress.com. Inspire, Inform & Entertain. 1. We can all be leaders 2. Engaging others we can accomplish amazing changes
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Communicating & Connecting with Allied Health Professionals Elaine Hunter Allied Health Professions Consultant #AHPDementia #ASAGM @elaineahpmh www.elaineahpmhwordpress.com
Inspire, Inform & Entertain 1. We can all be leaders 2. Engaging others we can accomplish amazing changes 3. Social media is a conversation
Allied Health – What? Who? • Arts therapists – art, music, dance, drama • Dieticians • Occupational Therapists • Orthoptists • Paramedics • Podiatrists • Prothetists & Orthotists • Physiotherapists • Radiographers (diagnostic & therapuetic • Speech and language therapists • N = 12,000
What has shaped my leadership You cannot have leadership without at least three ingredients, a leader, a follower or co-leader and a shared endeavour. Take any one of these things away and leadership evaporates Hawkins & Smith 2006
1.Decide what type of leader you want to be New approach to leadership
1. Decide what type of leader you want to be Engaging Transformational Leadership
2. Have a Vision The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet Theodre M Hesburgh
3. Build a community of influence “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has” Margaret Mead
#AHPDementia “Helping people to live life their way”
#AHPDementia Commitment 4: We will commission Alzheimer Scotland to produce an evidence based policy document outlining the contributions of AHPs to ensuring implementation of the 8-pillar model
Narratives & Stories Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today Robert McAfee Brown
#AHPDementia Conversation • Workshop for 200 occupational therapy students #OTDementia • Meeting with AHP Professional Bodies – COT, CSP, RCSLT • Working with SDWG @S_D_W_G • Building links with NDCAN • Attended the Scottish Council for Radiography AGM & many others • Developing engagement events next year
Digital Leader “Twitter is not a technology, it’s a conversation, and it’s happening with or without you” #quality 2013 @SarahFraser
Inspire, Inform & Entertain “What would you do tomorrow if you knew you could not fail?”