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A Pan-Canadian Systems Approach to Health System Leadership Capacity-Building

Wednesday October 30th, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm ET

Format: In-Person

Canadian healthcare organizations have been wrestling with a multitude of health human resource challenges that span all levels and across all professions. At the leadership level, organizations are seeing similar trends as experienced leaders leave the health system due to retirement, moral distress, and mental health and wellness challenges. This has left and continues to leave a major gap, with leaders entering positions for which they have not yet been prepared.

The health system needs capable, confident leaders across the continuum who are equipped to handle increasingly complex leadership and management issues and can facilitate the system transformation agenda. HealthCareCAN has repeatedly heard about the leadership gaps from our members and our Health Human Resources Advisory Committee of the Board.

HealthCareCAN, through its professional development division, CHA Learning, has been developing and delivering health leadership and management programs for decades, but there is a clear and present need to reimagine leadership development for today’s health leaders, taking a systems approach.

In partnership with Nova Scotia's healthcare organizations (Nova Scotia Health, IWK Health, and the Government of Nova Scotia), and Humanistic Systems at Work, CHA Learning developed the Canadian Health Leadership Academy (CHLA) in 2023 and has been delivering the first year of the Academy to 100 leaders across Nova Scotia since January 2024.

In this 90-minute session, you will learn more about this unique partnership, hear from Nova Scotia senior system leaders, learn more about the innovative academy, and have a chance to experience the learning approach for yourself. The session will have four parts:

Part 1 – Program Principles and Design (10 minutes)

• An overview of the CHLA’s principles and the program design

• The key audiences and objectives for the CHLA

• Program Components

• What sets the CHLA apart from other leadership programs.

Part 2 – Fireside Chat with Senior System HR/OD Leaders & Overview of Program Design (30 minutes)

We’ll sit down with system leaders from the three Nova Scotia partner organizations to talk about their unique and shared perspectives on:

• The burning-platform for a system approach to transformative leadership development in Nova Scotia

• How senior system leaders in Nova Scotia ensured that they effectively articulated the case for change and collaboration on provincial leadership development and the return on investment

• How the absence of leadership development can be the cause of systemic and organizational issues and using this data as part of the business case • How the Health System Leadership Academy has impacted leaders in Nova Scotia in the first 10 months

• Why and how Nova Scotia and CHA Learning have partnered on the design and delivery of the program and its key objectives

Part 3 – Mini-Workshop (35 minutes)

• Interactive session to demonstrate part of the actual formal learning approach. This sample workshop will focus on the application of the Coaching Approach to Leadership.

Part 4 – Audience Q&A (15 minutes)

Objectives

Part 1 & 2

1. Understand the impetus for developing the Canadian Health Leadership Academy and what makes it unique from other leadership programs

2. Learn from Nova Scotia system leaders about how they made the case for investment in leadership development

3. Learn about the innovative partnership between Nova Scotia’s health system and CHA Learning, the professional development division of HealthCareCAN

4. Discover CHLA’s distinctive success factors for sustainable leadership capacity-building and culture change including the critical role of coaching

5. Share in the successes and lessons learned to date

6. Hear from leaders currently in the first program cohort

Part 2

1. Discover the skills and mindsets required to be a self-aware leader who can effectively lead others from a strengths-based and systems perspective. This includes awareness of the impact of leading from purpose, strengths and values on others and the practical application of how to enable others to leverage their own strengths and values Identify the six styles of leadership and the impact each style has on others as well as the team climate and organizational culture

2. Discover leadership skills and mindsets that build trust and psychological safety for others and the positive impact of the coaching approach to leadership, relationships, climate and culture

3. Practice adopting the coaching mindset and the coaching skills of active listening, asking powerful questions and saying what matters

4. Recognize the Leadership C-Shift Megatrend and confidently lead others in a manner that promotes the C-Shift

Part 3

1. Audience opportunity for questions and discussion

Session Presenters

• Dale Schierbeck, Vice President Learning & Development, HealthCareCAN
• Amanda Bjorn, Founder & CEO, Humanistic Systems at Work
• Anna Marenick, Vice President of People, Culture and Belonging, Nova Scotia Health
• Kathleen DeCoste, Senior Executive Director, Health Human Resources & Office of Healthcare Professional Recruitment, Department of Health and Wellness, Government of NS.
• Steve Ashton, Vice President, People and Organization Development, IWK Health Centre, Nova Scotia

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Taxes

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