AMA Victoria publishes 'Leadership Insight' articles for you to read, learn and apply fortnightly. Click below to read the series (member login required).
2025
- Leadership insight #1/2025: The business case for our new psychological safety CPD offering
- Leadership insight #2/2025: Leading with balance
- Leadership insight #3/2025: From challenges to growth: How leadership coaching supports doctors
2024
- Leadership insight #1 / 2024: Ambitious goals need SMART Actions and SMART Plans
- Leadership insight #2 / 2024: Strategies for strengthening team meetings and leadership engagement
- Leadership insight #3 / 2024: Facing the challenge of giving difficult feedback?
- Leadership insight #4 / 2024: Staying afloat: Managing burnout and exhaustion
- Leadership insight #5 /2024: How to be a better ally at work
- Leadership insight #6 / 2024: What psychological safety sounds like at work
- Leadership Insight #7 / 2024: Be realistic about what’s achievable as the end of year approaches
- Leadership Insight #8 / 2024: Burnout – a persistent problem with no easy fix: what leaders can do to address burnout in themselves and their teams
- Leadership Insight #9: 2024: Fostering psychological safety for high performing teams
- Leadership insight #10 / 2024: Leading with care through December and January
2023
- Leadership insight #1 / 2023: Starting well: Onboarding tips for employees and their leaders
- Leadership insight #2 / 2023: Achieving equity – what does this mean for leaders in medicine?
- Leadership insight #3 / 2023: Using data dashboards for supporting equity interventions
- Leadership insight #4 / 2023: AMAV leadership development programs show a clear gender balance
- Leadership insight #5 / 2023: Fine tuning your professional introduction
- Leadership insight #6 / 2023: Preparing for performance development reviews (Part 1)
- Leadership insight #7 / 2023: Managing the Performance Development Review (PDR) meeting (Part 2)
- Leadership insight #8 / 2023: Managing anxiety at work
- Leadership insight #9 / 2023: In asking ‘R U OK?’ Are you a colleague that people can talk to?
- Leadership insight #10 / 2023: Leaders on leave - tips for managing leave in leadership positions
- Leadership insight #11 / 2023: How to maximise the potential of your new recruits
- Leadership insight #12 / 2023: Nurturing kindness in healthcare leadership
- Leadership insight #13 / 2023: Leadership in turbulent times: creating safe workplaces amidst social and cultural tension
- Leadership insight #14 / 2023: So tired and still so much to do!
2022
- Leadership insight #1 / 2022: Launching AMA Victoria’s Middle Leader professional development program
- Leadership insight #2 / 2022: Reconnecting with your team as the year gets underway
- Leadership insight #3 / 2022: The role of controlled processing and intentional behaviour in combatting unconscious bias
- Leadership insight #4 / 2022: Sharing our grief and loss can be important leadership work
- Leadership insight #5 / 2022: Leading exhausted teams
- Leadership insight #6 / 2022: Getting comfortable with constant change
- Leadership insight #7 / 2022: Saying ‘no’: Why it’s an important leadership skill and how to do it
- Leadership insight #8 / 2022: Names matter! Why getting people's names right is an important leadership skill
- Leadership insight #9 / 2022: Friendships at work: why they matter
- Leadership insight #10 / 2022: Trust: How to build more trust at work
- Leadership insight #11 / 2022: Supporting teams to excel - diverse members and psychological safety
- Leadership insight #12 / 2022: Acting inclusively in moments that matter
- Leadership insight #13 / 2022: Building a panel of role models and mentors is an essential leadership skill at any career stage
- Leadership insight #14 / 2022: The power of the ‘check-in’ - An essential leadership skill at any career stage
- Leadership insight #15 / 2022: The importance of feedback for a learning culture: Part 1
- Leadership insight #16 / 2022: The importance of feedback for a learning culture: Part 2
- Leadership insight #17 / 2022: Leaders are important for creating safe workplaces
- Leadership insight #18 / 2022: Communicating effectively when people are vulnerable
- Leadership insight #19 / 2022: How wrapping up the year can be a leadership opportunity
2021
- Leadership insight #1 / 2021: Leadership development: a good idea, but how do I start?
- Leadership insight #2 / 2021: Recognising the importance of your professional network
- Leadership insight #3 / 2021: Mentoring and sponsoring - What is your legacy?
- Leadership insight #4 / 2021: Adapting as a core leadership skill
- Leadership insight #5 / 2021: Being present so others can connect
- Leadership insight #6 / 2021: Listening for understanding and connecting
- Leadership insight #7 / 2021: Self-care as a leadership competence
- Leadership insight #8 / 2021: How to look after your team in high-pressure environments
- Leadership insight #9 / 2021: How professional kindness can improve workplace culture
- Leadership insight #10 / 2021: Silencing the unhelpful inner critic during a crisis
- Leadership Insight #11 / 2021: How to lead burnt out teams