FLASH program

Lead with impact. Build your skills and confidence in this six-month practical leadership program. 

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Health professionals across all disciplines need to be effective leaders. This six-month, practical leadership program is designed to build your leadership capability and confidence, supporting you to take on leadership roles and drive positive change within Australia’s health system.

Leadership is more than holding a formal title or management position. Effective leadership has far-reaching impacts across the health system and is essential to achieving high-quality patient outcomes. 

Strong leadership also underpins excellence in research and education and is associated with a more engaged, fulfilled and productive workforce.

The FLASH program is developed by clinicians, for clinicians. Our teaching faculty have extensive experience in leadership development, health professional education and coaching. This highly interactive program showcases the experiences of health professional leaders through panel discussions and participant engagement, creating a dynamic and practical learning environment.

What you will gain

Your leadership capability will be developed through a range of experiential learning opportunities, including:

  • examining and reflecting on your own behaviours and relationships
  • exploring approaches to building and leading effective teams
  • developing techniques to positively influence others
  • learning strategies to manage conflict constructively
  • gaining a better understanding of the national and NSW health systems
  • experiencing the benefits of coaching and mentoring
  • shadowing senior leaders

The FLASH Leadership Program is aligned with the Australian Health Leadership LEADS Framework, ensuring a nationally recognised, evidence-based approach to leadership development.

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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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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

 
 
FLASH for nurses and midwives

Designed for clinical nurse/ midwifery consultants, nurse practitioners and nurse/ midwife educators, highlights include: 

  • Full-day interactive workshops
  • Two-day immersive offsite overnight workshop
  • Four interprofessional days learning with mixed allied health and medical FLASH streams
  • Highly interactive format with wide-ranging guest faculty
  • Tailored to local health district/ network needs to address a gap in nursing & midwifery leadership development, linking to real-life health service scenarios
  • Opportunity to ‘shadow’ a senior health leader
  • Dedicated full-day research workshop
  • Great opportunities for building ongoing networks across disciplines and professions
FLASH for allied health professionals

Designed for allied health professional level 2-5 clinicians from all disciplines, highlights include: 

  • Full-day interactive workshops
  • Two-day immersive offsite overnight workshop
  • Four interprofessional days learning with medical and nursing & midwifery FLASH streams
  • Highly interactive format with wide-ranging guest faculty
  • Tailored to local health district/ network needs to address a gap in allied health professionals’ leadership development, linking to real-life health service scenarios
  • Opportunity to ‘shadow’ a senior health leader
  • Dedicated full-day research workshop
  • Great opportunities for building ongoing networks across disciplines and professions
FLASH for doctors

FLASH is aimed at specialist doctors within their first 10 (approx.) years of independent practice as well as trainees in their last year of specialty training and clinical/research Fellows.

  • Full-day interactive workshops
  • Two-day immersive offsite overnight workshop
  • Four interprofessional days learning with mixed allied health and nursing & midwifery FLASH streams
  • Highly interactive format with wide-ranging guest faculty
  • Tailored to local health district/ network needs to address a gap in medical leadership development, linking to real-life health service scenarios
  • Opportunity to ‘shadow’ a senior health leader
  • Great opportunities for building ongoing networks across disciplines and professions
Testimonials

"It has given me the building blocks to build on and the knowledge base as an emerging leader in our health system. It has given me the confidence and framework to build on to take on new projects and contribute to our district

"I see that I have the ability to create change in every role I take, from culture change, improving the patient experience, to empowering my team, to quality improvement


"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.

"I have learned better strategies to connect with executive and present my ideas with confidence, make me a more active participant and advocate

"I think the one of the biggest benefits is that it has provided the language, tools and familiarity with organisational structures within the network to allow better engagement. Also, on a personal level, I feel I appreciate the importance of personal engagement within this space and with the help of insights profile, I have a framework for approaching the more difficult interactions.

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