Sign the Compassionate Leadership Pledge
Join the global network of healthcare professionals who are pledging to lead with compassion.
You’ll get access to training resources, guides, and the opportunity to connect with health workers across the world.
Sign the pledge
By signing the Compassionate Leadership Pledge you…
Commit to:
- Developing and modeling compassionate leadership
- Creating compassionate and collective cultures within your teams and organisation by embedding the Compassionate Leadership Principles.
What is the Compassionate Leadership Pledge?
The Pledge is an invitation to everyone working in healthcare to make their organization the most caring and supportive it can be. Anyone can sign it and they can do so on behalf of themselves, their department, or their entire organization. In signing the pledge you commit to modeling compassionate leadership and team working and helping to create cultures of compassion within your team and organization.
There are three ways in which you can commit to embedding cultures of compassionate leadership. Before signing up to the pledge, consider the following:
- Individual – Reflect on how you, as an individual, embed each Compassionate Leadership Principles within your work.
- Team or Department – Agree in collaboration as a team or department how each Compassionate Leadership Principle will be modelled and experienced within the team or department.
- Organisational – Executives within organisations can sign the pledge on behalf of their organisation and commit to creating compassionate workplaces and modelling compassionate leadership in all interactions
Who created it?
The Compassionate Leadership Pledge has been developed by Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) and Michael West, Chair of the GCC Healthcare Working Group and a visiting professor at the King’s Fund in the UK.
How will I implement the pledge?
After signing, you will get access to library of resources that you can use to help you put your commitment to compassionate leadership into practice. The resources include guides to the essential behaviors of a compassionate health leader as well as how-tos on cultivating compassion in your workplace.
As well as that you will also become part of a global community of healthcare workers committed to compassionate leadership. You will have the chance to meet with the team behind the pledge and join conversations about how we put the principles into practice.