What are Medical Leader Learning Sets?
Medical Leader Learning Sets are immersive, action-learning based programs that deliver lasting leadership impact.
Participants work together in groups of 9, facilitated by an experienced peer. The program is tailored to address the unique needs of clinical leaders, offering both peer-supported learning and targeted management training opportunities.
Meet our Facilitators
Astute and experienced, you can count on our team of expert facilitators to provide you with support and guidance in navigating the complex leadership challenges you face.
Dr. Alexandra Cockram
Medical Leaders Learning Set Facilitator
An experienced leader and BoardDirector in health, home andaged care, government policyand directions, and large-scaleprecinct infrastructuredevelopments. Alex commenced her psychiatrycareer as a Consultation andLiaison Psychiatry with aninterest in mood and anxietydisorders. In early 2021, shecompleted a two-yearappointment as a Commissionerto the Royal Commission intoVictoria’s Mental Health Systemwhich created a transformativevision for the mental healthservice system and continues toprovide advice to governmentand industry.
Dr Gerry O’Callaghan
Medical Leaders Learning Set Facilitator
Professor Gerry O’Callaghan is a distinguished intensivist and healthcare leader with extensive experience in medical services, clinical governance, and health system reform. He specialises in patient-centered care, interprofessional education, and policy development, driving improvements in healthcare efficiency and safety.
The Action Learning Methodology
Explore your challenge
Name the issue
The aim of the Action Learning Set is to address present work-related challenges, which may pertain to individual, team leadership, or organisational leadership, by discussing and reflecting on them within the group.
Developing Knowledge and Insights
Go Deeper
Gain valuable insights by exploring various perspectives from other leaders within your group who have encountered similar challenges. Take into account the context and intricacies of the situation, and carefully consider what is significant and what holds the highest importance.
Create the Vision
Develop a compelling strategy
Sets provide a distinctive environment for reflection, allowing participants to take a step back, engage in discussions about complex issues with peers, and depart from each Set meeting with a clearer understanding. They help solidify your vision, challenge your thought processes, ensure alignment with the issue at hand, and confirm congruence with organisational priorities.
Understanding
Exploration Phase
Executive Learning Sets consistently embrace the concept of reflexivity, where the set member is encouraged to contemplate insights gained from past experiences, challenge assumptions and limitations and evaluate the evidence at hand.
Planning
Consider Options
Set members encourage each other to think creatively and push boundaries, fostering innovative approaches and encouraging action beyond conventional norms. This collaborative environment cultivates new possibilities, enhances capacities and capabilities, and promotes opportunities for collaboration. Together, they evaluate various options to determine the most effective course of action.
Implement Solutions
Action the solution, and report to peers.
Sets are dedicated to the development and implementation of an action plan, with the added benefit of supportive guidance from both the facilitator and peers. This ensures commitment to follow through and accountability for actions taken. Within this framework, specific actions to be undertaken, either individually or as a group are identified, alongside the resources and partnerships required. Details are clarified to elevate commitment levels.
Reflecting and Evaluating
Describe the insights gained from experience.
At your next Set meeting you will reconvene to evaluate the effectiveness of the implemented solution, record important insights, and make any required modifications. This involves assessing the action taken and engaging in critical reflection, determining the extent to which the vision has been achieved, and making the necessary refinements for further improvement.
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Explore the Program’s Benefits
Confidential and Supportive Environment
Participants collaborate in a safe, supportive environment where strict confidentiality fosters open discussion and honest feedback.
Leadership and Management Focus
These Sets go beyond peer collaboration to address the unique leadership and management needs of clinical service leaders. Based on demand, practical management theory and techniques can be integrated into the program to provide targeted support.
Tailored Facilitation
Each group is facilitated by an experienced medical peer who understands the unique pressures and complexities faced by doctors juggling clinical and managerial responsibilities.
Connect with the right people
There is a purposeful and structured methodology behind making sure each member is placed in the right set.
HG extended an invitation to the Original Learning Set to share their experiences and what being a part of this leadership group has meant to them. We encourage you to watch their reflections in the video, which serves as a compelling tribute to the transformative impact of Sets on careers and the development of exceptional leaders.
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