Encourage and support innovation (Leadership Resources)

Good practice will spread more quickly within the health care system if leaders acknowledge and respect the patterns reflected in the past efforts of other to innovate. 

Description:

  • Create a climate of continuous improvement and creativity aimed at systemic change.

Abilities:

  • Leaders continually engage staff and partners to create environments which are responsive to evolving trends and able to make the shifts necessary.

This is shown by having:

  • The ability to create an environment which can respond and adapt to change effectively.

The Practices and Skills may include:

  • Working with others to create environments and partnerships able to respond to shifts.

Tools:

  • Health PEI Planning and Accountability Framework which aligns the Strategic Plan with:
         - Strategic Initiatives,
         - Strategic Committees (ACOD, Q&SC, PMAC) - provide structured supports for systems change.
  • Project / Program Management (PMI).
  • LEAN / 6 Sigma.
  • Change Management Tool Kit. [PDF]

Leadership Resources:

Print Internet Other
  • Bridges, W. (1993).  Managing transitions:  Making the most of change. Reading, MA:  Addision - Wellsley.
  • Wheatley, M (1992).  Leadership and the new science.  New York:  Berret-Koehler Publishers.
  • Wheatley, M (1996).  The unplanned organization:  Learning from nature’s emergent creativity.  Noetic Sciences Review.
    
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