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Dr Carol Parkes MBBS MSc MSc MFPH ANLP
Personal profile:
Carol is a full-time freelance consultant, trainer and coach. Her portfolio of work includes:
- Developing individuals to reach their full potential through one to one coaching as well as personal development workshops and seminars
- Providing a consultancy service to organisations for strategy development and implementation, particularly concerning clinical engagement, leadership and team development
- Helping organisations become more effective by developing and enhancing personal and interpersonal skills and attitudes in their leaders and employees
Qualifications:
MSc Organisational Behaviour 2005 Birkbeck College, University of London MFPHM 1994
MSc Community Medicine 1990 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London).
MB BS 1985 Medical College of St.Bartholomew's Hospital (University of London).
Further training:
- Trained as a neurolinguistic programming (NLP) practitioner and coach
- Trained in personal performance coaching
- Qualified administrator of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) for understanding personality (Step I and Step II)
- Trained practitioner in MBTI Flexcare communication and influencing skills
- Trained user of the Firo Element B instrument
- Trained to assess Emotional Intelligence in individuals and teams
Previous experience:
Carol originally trained in medicine and had a 20 year career in the NHS, having specialised in public health medicine and epidemiology. She has worked at many different organisations from hospitals and primary care trusts to strategic health authorities, with the last ten years in consultant posts. She has gained considerable experience in senior management, policy development and implementation, board-level strategy and leadership development. This has equipped her with an extremely useful range of transferable skills that are relevant to both the public and private sectors.
Examples of recent achievements include:
- Carol is experienced in training and coaching groups and individuals (including senior medical managers, GPs, nurses, public health clinicians, medical educators, private industry senior executives) in personal development and leadership, such as:
- Understanding personal style and diversity
- Communication skills and influencing skills
- Team working and decision-making
- Basic NLP skills made easy
- Personal and performance coaching
- Work-life balance, life planning and alternative time management
- She produced clinical leadership development strategies covering all the NHS organisations in Kent, Surrey and Sussex and co-developed a clinical leadership development programme in Surrey and Sussex.
- Carol reviewed the literature on what motivates doctors, nurses and other clinical staff and how they might best work with management. This resulted in her developing a clinical engagement strategy for implementation across Surrey and Sussex.
