The second annual leadership symposium organised under the 3U Partnership, a collaboration between Maynooth University, the RCSI and DCU, explored the issues of leadership and trust in professional practice.
Hosted at Maynooth University, the symposium is a collaborative event between Maynooth University ’s Education Department and RCSI’s Institute of Leadership. Panelists from education and healthcare explored the importance of anchoring leadership and management in an organization’s core.
Keynote speaker, Professor James P. Spillane, Northwestern University, Illinois explained how organisations need to “get beyond an implementation mindset to engage in diagnosis and design to improve practice”.
The day highlighted the importance of distributing leadership within organisations, understanding the important issues relating to trust in professional practice and making a case for the uniqueness of managing human development/improvement practice, and the critical importance of the legitimacy and integrity imperative when one manages public institutions that reside in a pluralistic environment.
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Pictured are Tomás Ó Ruairc, Director of the Teaching Council, Professor Freddie Wood, President of the Irish Medical Council and Professor Philip Nolan, President Maynooth University.