 and welcome to my Haas seminar series of vlogs. And there it is, there's my badge, what? Everybody loves a badge. So I have previously vlogged before, I'm all about Haas and what Haas is, I've talked about the first workshop I went to, so this is a video all about the second workshop which was the leadership skills workshop and it was amazing, I learnt so much, it was fantastic and the main aims of this workshop were to provide definition of both leadership and management, explaining the importance of these in the world of work, be able to for us to describe five behaviours related to successful leadership, then identifying the energy mix that we have of our leadership. Now I haven't done a vlog yet about the colour energy mix but basically this was a tool that we used online, it's called Insights and based on the series of questions that you answer, it picks what energy you are, what colour energy you are and mine was green. My energy was green which means I'm a caring nurturing type sort of person and then you adjust that into your leadership skills and using these colour energies to recognise what sort of energy other people have and by recognising all these colour energies and what sort of other types of people there are in your team you can recognise what sort of types people are from these colour energies and how they work and how they think so you're enabling to use that to work together with that person rather than against that person and not understanding where they're coming from so it gives you more empathy towards your team members and adjust your leadership skills to suit the other person as well because you want them on board if you're running a team you want that person on board you want them to listen to you and you want not only that but you want to get their best self out of them so if you understand them you can then advise and lead them into a way that's going to get their best result from them. So back to our leadership seminar today which was run by an amazing guy his name is Kevin Faulk now I'm going to put his Twitter page below I'm going to put the links and everything below so just check below for all the details and he's just amazing he's so good he's great at speaking he's motivating he's inspiring he is a great leader himself because you look up to him and you think actually yeah how do I be my best self how do I do this and the way he explains things he doesn't just say oh this this this he makes you think logically and he makes you think about the bigger picture like not just one point but actually everything around that one point and he really makes you expand your mind and it's just amazing Kevin if you're watching this is your great I absolutely love you you're fantastic also kev recommended a great book leadership plain and simple book I haven't read it yet it's only just came in the post so I'm going to read this and let you all know what it's like so I'm just going to add a couple of the definitions that we come up with the difference between a leader and management and I'm going to show you those now so the way I kind of see this is management is more task-orientated is more precise it's more facts figures that sort of thing and you're getting the job done and with leadership it's more inspiring there's a lot more emotion into it and it's all about achieving goals and we also spoke about what makes a good or a bad leader and I think everyone in the room sort of agreed that actually we shouldn't be using the terms bad leader because it's not a very nice term to use so we were just saying what sort of things do we look up to as a leader and what we think would make the perfect leader even though there's no such thing as perfect but what would we look up to as a leader and then during the session something really bizarre happens I mean kev was talking all this motivational speech and stuff and then I looked up at the wall and the clock was just going round and around like spinning like really really fast like the time was just fast forwarding and I was like what the clock and everyone just stared at this clock and they're all like oh so now I fully believe that only does kev inspire people and motivate people he moves time let's hashtag this and a couple of comments that I got from the previous session the two weeks before that this seminar we had another seminar about personal development and PCPD and during that session I took away from that and I asked on social media what people thought about leadership and things like that and I had a couple of comments and there's a couple of people one girl Hannah she's fantastic I'm gonna put her details below give her a follow she was talking about being a leader and a leader should not just give out negatives but actually they should give out compliments and recognize when somebody's actually done a really good job constructive criticism but also acknowledge when people do well she also thinks that leaders should be inspiring which I think leaders should be inspiring another one is from one of my other friends who said you have to understand all of the roles so you've got to understand all the way from the bottom all the way up to the top so you can understand that person's role to enable them to be their best self so you can encourage them and motivate them and understand where that person's coming from if they're coming to you with a problem or a situation and how to deal with it better and then we started talking about future engagement and delivery which is future what are your goals and taking a step back and seeing the bigger picture of that goal staying away from that operator mode you know that safe mode that we all get into and step outside of it know the type of leader that you actually want to be and see other people's inspirations aspirations keep the spirit alive to help other people and then engage so creating opportunities to be engaging doesn't mean you have to engage directly but create that opportunity so that you can engage with people build up big relationships go big have no fear just do it and asking always asking for feedback on the light and the shade not just good feedback but everything make sure you get that feedback so then you can imply that feedback and become your best self and harnessing the positive energies and help others to find the good in you and then delivering so delivering through others and linking this to the future that you want and then developing other people to be leaders and then creating a bigger dialogue and opportunities to make a bigger request so all in all this session was just this was just like a rough lowdown of what the session entailed but it was just fantastic and it really made me think about what sort of leader that I want to become what qualities do I have already that I can build on and improve on to become a really good leader when I qualify as a nurse because I'm gonna have to be a leader and it's one of the the qualities that you have to have as a nurse is good leadership skills because you're gonna be running a team and I'm working in a general practice at the minute on my placement and you have to work independently you have to work independently you have to run that clinic yourself and your patients and you have to you have to manage people around you as well so the reception the doctors you have to have those leadership skills to enable you to do that and you have to be a good leader for your patients then these patients that are coming in to see you are looking up to you for their health advice to be their best selves so you need to be that leader for your patients as well so all in all is just a fantastic session I absolutely love these hard seminars they're fantastic they really make you think they're making me become my best self and they're making me aim high like aim a lot higher and I'm thinking actually what else can I do what else can I do now I'm just my brain is constantly going at the minute trying to think what I can do in my life to be my best self so I hope you've given you some sort of insight part is amazing if you're a current Birmingham City University student please aim high aim for 68% in everything doesn't matter if you don't quite get 68% as long as the majority of your grades over the year is 68% you are into the hard scheme so aim for that it's amazing you're going to want to be part of it it's fantastic you won't regret it and I'm going to leave you with this last quote that I got from Kevin Faulkner on the day it's one of my favorites he said quite a few things that really inspired me and made me think but this is one of the ones that he said without reflection there is no action and without no action there is no reflection