Fostering Leadership Across Systems in Health (FLASH)

This 6-month practical program will develop your leadership capability and drive positive change within our health system.

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Developed by clinicians, for clinicians

Being a leader is more than just taking on an official leadership role or management position. Good leadership has far-reaching implications across all parts of our health systems, whilst achieving high quality patient outcomes.

Effective leadership is required for excellence in research and educational outcomes and is associated with a more fulfilled and productive workforce.

The FLASH program has been developed by clinicians for clinicians. Our teaching faculty have expertise and experience in delivering leadership programs, health professional education and coaching.

This stimulating program will be highly interactive and showcase many health professional leaders’ experiences through panel/participant discussions.

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Image adapted from the Health LEADS Australia diagram

Grow your leadership skills

Your leadership ability will be fostered in many ways, including:

  • Examining and reflecting on your own behaviours and relationships with others
  • Exploring ways to build effective teams
  • Developing techniques to positively influence others
  • Learning strategies to approach conflict constructively
  • Better understand the national and NSW health systems
  • Experiencing the benefits of coaching and mentoring
  • Shadowing senior leaders

FLASH has been developed around the Health LEADS Australia framework.

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Award-winning program

FLASH is an award-winning program designed for experienced clinicians. This includes: doctors (medical specialists in their first 10 years (approx.) of independent practice, final year advanced trainees and fellows); nurses & midwives (clinical nurse/midwifery consultants, nurse practitioners and nurse/midwife educators); level 3 & 4 allied health professionals (also relevant for some levels 2 & 5).  It offers highly interactive education and coaching sessions, designed to foster your leadership capability.

"FLASH has challenged and changed my views on what leadership is, helped me to recognise different leadership styles, and to think about my own leadership, including how to develop it, and how to be a more effective leader. Learning about different leadership styles and how best to interact with them, has been enlightening. I have gained significant confidence in my abilities as a leader."

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FLASH - Fostering Leadership Across Systems in Health

WSLHD Research and Education Network - FLASH, Fostering Leadership Across Systems in Health.

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FLASH - Fostering Leadership Across Systems in Health

 
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foreign

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[Music]

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to develop leadership capacity in

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healthcare professionals most Healthcare

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Training is necessarily focused on the

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science and medicine and so this program

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is designed to increase leadership

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capacity so that for those who might

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have Administration as part of their

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career path the intent is to give

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clinicians who are all leaders in their

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own right some more skills to be more

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competent and capable leaders in the

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health system today we're running a

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session which involves all the flash

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programs intersecting so that's medical

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Allied Health and nursing and Midwifery

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and we're all coming together to do a

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change management simulation we've been

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allocated to various teams

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multi-disciplinary teams and in addition

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to getting to know each other of course

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just working together leveraging our

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experience to see how we can get the

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best outcome with the least amount of

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resources you realize that some people

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have kind of different ways of looking

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at things but we're all working towards

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the same purpose and we have to work

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together for a common goal I'm enjoying

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the interaction with my fellow

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colleagues and understanding how we can

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Implement a process of change that would

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be effective for the organization today

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we're in breakout groups and we're

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analyzing a business

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organizational change and sort of trying

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to find the best approach to managing

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change within an organization

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I think it's been really inspirational

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to think about how as a doctor we can

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lead change within the hospital system

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within which in we work I'm finding the

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event very exciting and interesting so

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it's a huge learning curve for me and

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it's good experience for me to know the

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roles and what is needed to implement

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change in an organization that ability

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for the staff to work together in a

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face-to-face sort of scenario has really

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brought out the best and probably the

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most competitive part of the the process

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from these workshops I've understood

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that

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being a leader isn't just being someone

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in an executive position it's at every

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stage of the organization being able to

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point out and make our voices heard and

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be the voice for our patients and

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consumers

 
 

Allied health professionals

Doctors

Nurses and midwives

Organising committee

  • Sandra Turner, Staff Specialist Radiation Oncology, Clinical Lead Professional Development Unit, Research and Education Network, WSLHD
  • Jane Bolster, District Nurse Educator, Professional Development Unit, Research and Education Network, WSLHD
  • Sonja Cronjé, Professional Coach and member of the International Coaching Federation
  • Anthony Glover, Director Master of Surgery Program, USyd; Endocrine Surgeon
  • Gabriel Cheung, Allied Health Professional Educator, Professional Development Unit, Research and Education Network, WSLHD
  • Stephanie Keenihan Education Event Support Officer, Professional Development Unit, Research and Education Network, WSLHD

Contact

Please direct inquiries to WSLHD-FLASH@health.nsw.gov.au

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