Leadership is a foul weather job
Post 2 | The Transformation Essentials Series In this blog series we are exploring the essentials of system transformation. I am pretty confident that few would argue with the critical role of...
View ArticleCarew Hatherley on leadership
In late March I was privileged to interview Carew Hatherley who was attending the Executive Quality Academy (EQA)* at Ko Awatea. Carew has had an illustrious career, including 17 years in the British...
View ArticleOur Future Leaders
It’s not every day that 250 top medical students from around NZ come together on a Saturday to attend the NZ Medical Students Conference, centred around the idea of being a catalyst for change. The...
View ArticleSharing knowledge is power
Post 4 | The Transformation Essentials series There is no shortage of knowledge in the New Zealand health system – our challenge is how to best use it. How can we qualify it? How can we share it? How...
View ArticleWhat is Clinical Leadership?
Over the next few weeks we will be hearing from people around the organisation on the topic of leadership – in particular how do we define leadership? what are the qualities that make a good leader...
View ArticleAn insight into leadership by Jenni Coles
As part of our focus on leadership, we now hear from Jenni Coles, Director of Hospital Services. I’ve been fortunate to have worked with wonderful leaders in our organisation, including our CEOs who...
View ArticleHat and Hope is not a Plan
When we began the round in the ICU that morning, I recognized Margaretta immediately. She was embarrassed to be back with her 7-month-old son – his sixth hospital admission with bronchiolitis. She...
View ArticleEfficiency then Effectiveness
For the sake of clarity in this post, I’d like to start with the definitions of three words: Value: The monetary worth of an asset, business entity, goods sold, service rendered, or liability or...
View ArticleThe Pursuit of Less
Like many of you I returned from holiday revitalised, full of energy and enthusiastic about the year ahead. However on my first day back I managed to find myself on the back foot, as I headed into a...
View ArticleEnabling High Performing People Programme
It’s hard to believe we are at the end of March. Autumn and winter are knocking at our door, bringing lots of challenges for our clinical and non clinical staff. Ensuring that we provide high quality,...
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