Our Health leaders are some of the most influential leaders we have come across. They engage with others to influence health and well-being and the quality of care for birth, illness and the end of life.
Leadership within health systems across the world is now widely recognised to be the primary driver of organisational culture, staff satisfaction and ultimately patient care. While it's recognised, in our experience, leaders in the health sector receive significantly less support and resources to develop their leadership capability than their clinical capability.
We have worked with health sector leaders for over a decade and understand the extreme pressures they are under to lead effective teams through an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment. We wanted to create something that would help leaders to gain confidence around their strengths that were identified by others; offer some reassurance in many of their capabilities, and also help raise their attention to any blindspots that if they focus on and develop would have a massive impact on themselves, their teams, and patient care.
Whilst there are many wonderful leadership assessment tools on the market, none were Health Industry specific, so we set out to develop HILCA 360, an all in one assessment tool that empirically measures Leadership Capability against the Australian Health LEADS framework, as well as measurement against the NSQHS.
To ensure leaders are having a measurable impact we developed the HISCA to assess team capability, culture, staff engagement and patient experience. This all in one assessment allows organisations to compare site performance and understand where specific focus is required.
Whilst data may not be exciting to some, we view data as telling us the Human Story. Patterns and themes can then help in influencing decisions in the industry. Choosing HILCA 360 and HISCA is not only good for your organisation but for the whole sector. Data will be treated compassionately and confidentially and themes extrapolated to one day influence Government policy, funding and provide industry bench-marking.
