CORMETIS CONSULTING
Insight to Move People and Organisations from Understanding to Action
Understand whistleblowing and work with whistleblowers:
This course is available in mixed formats and is aimed at executive and non-executive directors, senior leaders and managers, and governance leads working in healthcare. It will also be of interest to NHS Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, Patient Safety Experts, those working in Human Resources and trainee and aspiring leaders and managers working or wanting to work in health and care.
Participants on this course will:
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Understand what whistleblowing is and explore the many perceptions of it,
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Identify ways of leading and managing to minimise incidents of whistleblowing,
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Understand whistleblowing as failure demand and begin to interpret, respond to, and engage with whistleblowers empathetically and productively.
Despite many attempts to define whistleblowing and classify whistleblowers, the research relating to why people whistleblow and what their motives are remains largely inconclusive. Whistleblowing is not an extreme act. It is in reality merely an action that sits on a continuum of concern. Each person who chooses to blow the whistle is steered and directed by their inherited and acquired beliefs and values, and the alignment of their own unique internal cultural compass with the culture and sum of their interactions within a team or organisation. These factors combine to inform and shape interpretation of the events and actions they witness.