Leading & Learning Forward
30 Apr 2024
Both sides of the Tasman the healthcare systems, and the wider social care systems, continue to be impacted by significant challenges that leaders describe as increasingly complex to navigate.
This includes all the obvious things like increased service demand, downward pressure on funding, upward pressure on the cost to do business, workforce shortages and burnout. Leaders also describe the challenges as more pronounced now against the backdrop of the global pandemic that continues to reshape the landscape.
What is also clear is the old hierarchical model of leadership is rapidly losing its potency to meet these challenges. Of course there is still a need for leaders to be accountable for their individual portfolios and performance, however, let’s be clear, high performance leadership teams will outperform the capabilities of star individuals every day of the week.
The organisation’s best placed to succeed as the going gets tougher?
- Those committed to developing high performance teams
- Those who understand it serves as a powerful means to retain and attract top talent
- Those who see it as an investment and not a cost
That’s why an increasing number of our clients have engaged us to deliver our High Performance Team Program. Delivered as either a 1 or 2 year program, either in its current form or finessed further by a process of co-design, without question it is having a material impact on team and organisational performance.
It’s not just the big players either as I pen this piece from the Northern Territory having facilitated a workshop with a client in Darwin deeply committed to improving organisational performance knowing the positive impact it has for the communities they serve.
What is your team doing to learn forward as you lead forward?
