Lockdown has allowed me to use my negative experiences, emotional intelligence, my creative and adaptable skills to innovate and make a difference.
Dentists were advised by their leaders to stop working immediately when the lockdown came into effect about March 2020.
During Lockdown I designed and gave a lecture to colleagues as part of their Continuing Professional Education (CPD) to support dentists and dental care professionals in maintaining and updating knowledge.
The topic I designed and learning outcomes is as following:
Leadership Skills: How to Prevent Burnout in Staff Leading to High Sickness Absence
Learning Outcomes:
* Tools to help you support staff well being
*How to communicate with staff
* Effective management of self and others
* Understanding flexible working, work life balance in challenging times e.g. Covid 19 lockdown/ self isolation
* Understanding Emotional intelligence
Secondly, I learnt how to prepare chicken potato hot pot.
Lastly, during lockdown, I took part in my first virtual Corona hackathon AI vs Covid 19 from 14th - 19th April 2020. Was part of team that won considering we all met online to make a difference.
Covid 19 has changed my life forever.
Staff are the heartbeat of an organisation. I can only describe my experience and impact by quoting my favourite poem by Maya Angelou: "I‘ve learned that people will forget what you said. People will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them FEEL."
My message is Please be Kind.
When you are kind to your self and at peace with your self, you are able to give happiness to others, value, respect and support them to reach their full potential. This act is like a ripple effect which spreads to make a difference in others.
FISH IN THE FISHY SEA - a poem
“ I am a fearful, oral fish with peg shaped, incisal, occlusal, mesial and distal teeth in a salty, flowing, rapid, rolling, foamy blue sea.
Whence shalt help come?
I swim against the tide in a salty sea full of sharks with sharp teeth, dolphins with conical teeth, sea horses with no teeth, plants and sea anemones beneath.
I cry myself to sleep and no one to turn to.
Whence shalt help come?
Why doesn’t anyone understand my pain and frustration in this wild, severely crowded sea with different characters who try to project, overbite, overjet superiority over poor sticky fissure me.
If you are in a job and your manager dislikes you please run, run, run before your health is destroyed.
They will always find someone to replace you but your health cannot be replaced.”
