better conversations
better outcomes
As the founder and CEO of the Core Solutions Group, I spend a great deal of time thinking and speaking about mediation, negotiation, conflict management, leadership and communication. I am told I should write some of these thoughts down… so, here goes…
“There are existential threats, combined with existential opportunities” “If we work together, we shall achieve and do so much more” “I fear we could drown in money and die for want of services” “We need more than football …
To address fully the challenges in the provision of health care and social care in Scotland, we may need a paradigm shift. In other words, a fundamental change in our way of thinking about how …
“Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears”. Surely some mistake, I thought; shouldn’t it be the other way round? Swords into ploughshares and spears into pruning-hooks? It was during Evensong at the magnificent …
Giving evidence to the Scottish Covid Inquiry recently, Donald Macaskilll, chief executive of Scottish Care, said that the Crown Office investigation into the circumstances of care home deaths during the pandemic has “broken” staff in …
“I predict Scotland’s NHS will not last until it is 100 years old.” The chair of BMA Scotland, Dr Iain Kennedy, has again called for a national conversation on the future of the NHS, urging …
John Sturrock has contributed the following reflections, on leadership in the NHS, to Reform Scotland’s excellent NHS 2048 initiative: “The key to doing well lies not in overcoming others, but in eliciting their co-operation.” (Robert Axelrod) “…whatever change …
The breakthrough in the UK’s relations with the EU over Northern Ireland demonstrates yet again that there is no substitute for conducting negotiations with respect and dignity, building relationships with counterparts, being honest and frank …
“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!” I am writing this on Burns Night and reflecting on a recent conversation with an acquaintance. I left our meeting feeling deeply …
Gillian Bowditch’s description in The Sunday Times this week of the attack on a schoolgirl at Waid Academy in Anstruther, Fife, brought back memories from 50 years ago. In 1973, I became a pupil at …
“Our problem is there always seems to be someone else to blame. The tram inquiry is about to reach £13m. The other ongoing inquiry into the Pandemic will also cost millions. ... Huge sums of …
Core Solutions Group
Sitemap
Privacy Policy
Registered Office
6 Claverhouse Drive,
Edinburgh
EH16 6BS
