MasterCraft Series - How can evidence-based practice help managers and leaders become more effective?

Evidence-based practice has been around for many decades in fields such medicine, education, policing and policy-making. It is a technique that helps practitioners become more effective through making better-informed decisions.  It involves using a combination of critical thinking, a structured approach and the best available evidence from multiple sources in order to identify the problem and, once identified, choose an intervention or solution that is most likely to work.  More recently evidence-based practice has been applied to other fields such as leadership and management.  

This event will consider how evidence-based practice principles can be applied equally well to management, some of the barriers, and how to quickly get started with evidence-based management in your role and with your teams.  The particular importance of evidence-based management in the public sector will also be considered.

Presenter

Professor Rob Briner
Rob is Professor of Organisational Psychology at Queen Mary, University of London and Director (Research) at Corporate Research Forum.  He is also currently a Visiting Professor of Evidence-Based HRM at Birkbeck, University of London and Visiting Professor at Oslo Nye Høyskole.

Previously he was co-founder and Scientific Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Management and has held positions at The University of Sheffield, Birkbeck, University of London, Institute for Employment Studies, London School of Economics, Kings College London, University of Bath and University of Edinburgh.

His research has focused on several topics including well-being, emotions, stress, ethnicity, the psychological contract, organizational culture and climate, absence from work, motivation, work-nonwork and everyday work behaviour.

Beyond academic research and teaching Rob works with practitioners and organizations in various fields to develop evidence-based practice knowledge and skills so they can become more effective.  He has written for and presented to practitioners on many aspects of management, HR and organizational psychology and is now involved in various activities aimed at developing and promoting evidence-based practice in organizational psychology, HR and management.

He has received several awards for his work in this area including the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology Academic Contribution to Practice Award in 2014 and topped HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinker list in 2016 and in 2019 received a Lifetime Achievement Award and was admitted to HR Magazine’s Hall of Fame.

Facilitator

Anthony Dusan, APSC 

Participant benefits

• Develop a good understanding of the principles of evidence-based practice and how they apply to leadership and management.
• Appreciate some of the main barriers to evidence-based management and how they can be overcome.
• Identify practical strategies for embedding evidence-based management.

Suitable for

All Staff.

Category and User level

This event aligns with the Leadership & Management Craft at the Foundation level.

Price

Free of charge.