{"id":553,"date":"2021-09-09T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=553"},"modified":"2022-11-07T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T10:41:23","slug":"avtar-verdee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/09\/09\/avtar-verdee\/","title":{"rendered":"Avtar Verdee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">MBA 2020, UK<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><strong><em>&#8220;Seek first to understand, then to be understood,&#8221; Stephen Covey<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I am a HCPC Registered Radiographer with over ten years leadership and management experience.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I am Head of Capital Projects at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust. My strong clinical background and general management experience has allowed me to grow a unique and advantageous insight into how to forge relationships and bring teams together to deliver change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Presentation at the National Conference for Magnetic Resonance Radiographers<\/li>\n<li>Achieved \u00a3500k cost reduction in a single year and recognition at board level<\/li>\n<li>Reaching to Senior On Call (Tactical) Manager level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the Kent MBA programme and why? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have a desire for improvement and continuous learning and wish to gain a broader understanding of leadership in context of the changing health service and business environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What were your motivations for undertaking an MBA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wish to gain broader understanding of complex management theory and practice on a personal and professional level resulting in enhanced services for patients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To obtain Director and Executive level positions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Develop a wide network, exchange information and treat each other with respect and dignity. Development of the workforce is paramount and \u2018bring\u2019 people with you on a journey to enable change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA 2020, UK &#8220;Seek first to understand, then to be understood,&#8221; Stephen Covey I am a HCPC Registered Radiographer with over ten years leadership and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/09\/09\/avtar-verdee\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74554,"featured_media":554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244706],"tags":[249099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}