Enhancing social system and sector performance
LEADING HEALTH
Work collectively across boundaries to deliver sustainable improvements to the social system, sector and the people we care for.
Enhancing social system and sector performance looks like building relationships with others within the system and sector, and working in partnership with external parties to deliver mutually beneficial programmes of mahi [work].
When you are enhancing social system and sector performance, you…
Identify, establish and leverage partnerships
Apply external akoranga [learning] and insights to achieve organisational and sector outcomes
Quick tips
Share all relevant information with your partners.
Create a shared vision with your partners to ensure a common purpose.
Measure the progress of your partnership on an ongoing basis.
Develop a stakeholder map to help you identify possible partnerships which may be beneficial.
In your thinking and planning, consider both the needs of the hauora [health] system and the sector.
Practice this behaviour
Here are some ways you can practice this behaviour:
Lead an interagency Better Public Services initiative, or similar.
Turn around a struggling operation.
Connect with other individuals from similar roles in other organisations.
Engage in cross-functional action akoranga [learning] group projects to solve organisational issues.
Start a private/public partnership to examine a common issue.
Join a community task force to practice using the skills needed to build partnerships.
What can hold you back
Here are some things that could get in the way of developing this behaviour:
Not seeing organisational or sector leadership as an expectation of your role.
Too focused on the objectives of your area. Don’t sacrifice organisation-wide outcomes for your own area or background.
Likewise, you can also find yourself too focused on the objectives of your organisation at the expense of outcomes that would benefit the entire sector and government.
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