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is a complex and
H ealthcare
collaborative setting that requires
strong personal, interpersonal and
team skills. It requires skilled leaders to
mobilise people and teams to approach
tasks collaboratively, to be motivated and
engaged and part of a workforce that is
healthy and sustainable and able to face
and overcome huge challenges.
OUR COACHING PROGRAMS
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Our coaching programs provide a private
and confidential series of one-on-one
sessions, where doctors are supported
to work on a highly personalised set of
development goals, designed to support
the work they want to do.
settings for the first time, middle leaders
taking up area or unit lead positions, and
doctors stepping into head of department
type roles.
Our programs are designed to support
these transition points. The group programs
have the added bonus of bringing people
at a similar stage together to share and
reflect on commonalities.
OUR APPROACH INVOLVES MIXING THE SLOWER,
DEEPER WORK OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
AND SELF-AWARENESS WITH A GROUNDED
AND PRACTICAL FOCUS
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For example, someone might know their
strengths and weakness in a general and
abstract way, and have sense of their
abilities and style, and then be faced with a
OUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
difficult conversation or an overwhelming
workload, and struggle to identify or try
Our professional development programs
more adaptive and effective behaviours.
Our approach navigates the two. I take
have both group and one-on-one formats
the person and what they do well and
to suit different learning styles and very
not so well into account, and based on
busy schedules that can sometimes limit
the situation at hand and what skills and
attendance across set program times.
behaviours are required for effective action,
WE’RE CONTINUALLY ADAPTING AND
work out small, realistic action plans for
MODIFYING OUR PROGRAMS
more effective skills and behaviours.
In a healthcare setting we have worked
This year we are running both the Middle
to create programs that are effective
Leader Professional Development program
within busy schedules and can be worked
and the Emerging Leader Program in group on and implemented on the run.
I believe it’s powerful. Leadership
and individual formats to meet demand.
development work doesn’t have to be an
This year we are also able to offer parts of
intensive residential retreat or a multi-day
the programs face-to-face for the first time.
As doctors progress in their careers they
conference, sometimes it’s finding an hour
often step into leadership positions and are
here and there to maintain momentum.
required to coordinate and engage diverse
I continue to be impressed by the level
of self-awareness and the commitment to
teams with little or no training. We’re here
to meet that need in a very personalised way. improvement that our members show.
While upskilling in this important area
We support their deepening personal
can happen at any point in a career, we know knowledge and the insight that builds as
there are particular transition points for
they do this work and witness themselves
this to occur. For example, junior doctors
gaining confidence and new ways
stepping into roles in hospitals and other
of working.
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