The Caring Leadership Podcast
The Caring Leadership Podcast is for people leading or working in healthcare. Host Joel Stanton, a nurse and coach, explores the research and psychology behind workplace challenges. Episodes cover topics such as boundaries, difficult conversations, wellbeing, and career development. The aim is to help listeners lead themselves and others with greater clarity, confidence, and kindness.
Episodes
How to Lead Yourself When Emotions Take Over
What happens when you know how you want to respond at work, but your emotions get there first?In this episode of The Caring Leadership Podcast, I’m talking about self-leadership in a very ordinary sense: noticing what’s happening in you before it starts deciding what you do next.We look at why looking calm isn’t always the same as actually dealing with what you’re feeling, drawing on James Gross’s
When You’re Good at Your Job but Still Doubt Yourself
Why can you know you’re capable of doing something and still feel completely incapable of it?In this episode of The Caring Leadership Podcast, I’m talking about self-doubt, confidence, and what happens when one difficult moment starts to feel much bigger than it really is.We look at Albert Bandura’s work on self-efficacy, why confidence can feel completely different depending on the situation, and
What actually is Caring Leadership?
What actually is caring leadership, and what does it look like in the middle of a busy working day?In this episode of The Caring Leadership Podcast, we look at Professor Michael West and The King’s Fund’s work on compassionate leadership, and break it down into four simple behaviours: attending, understanding, empathising and helping.We talk about what it means to really pay attention, why our fir
