"Efforts to enhance the health of the communities we serve is a huge undertaking, and this requires leaders to demonstrate an ecosystem view by focusing resources on understanding the needs of their community."
Dedicated to creating high-performing leaders across the health industry, TLD Group’s research team created the Health Ecosystem Leadership Model (HELM) to guide our leadership development work with executives, clinicians, teams, and organizations.
HELM™ offers a framework for how leaders can generate cross-sector solutions to the healthcare industry’s most pressing needs and is geared around the following capabilities:
| ENVISION the FUTURE |
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| ALIGN STAKEHOLDERS |
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MANAGE BOUNDARIES |
Along the way toward developing collaborative solutions, the partnership will likely be faced with some bumps along the road. To overcome these obstacles, it’s important that leaders focus on opportunity, and remind themselves as to why the partnership was developed in the first place. This may lead to difficult conversations, but in having these conversations the stakeholders can resolve points of tension, clarify roles, and re-align on ways the respective organizations can interface effectively. |
| ACT and LEARN | Of course, leaders must take steps toward advancing the shared vision that was created at the onset of the collaboration, which may require acting under uncertain conditions. It is critical to be open to giving and receiving feedback in the interest of evolving that vision to the benefit of all parties. |
"Efforts to enhance the health of the communities we serve is a huge undertaking, and this requires leaders to demonstrate an ecosystem view by focusing resources on understanding the needs of their community."
“The healthcare system is under a period of dynamic change where issues of affordability, cost, and value are rising to the forefront… The solution in many respects is innovative biopharmaceuticals. But too often we’re seen as the problem, and so we have to change the conversation… to get that done we have to become an integrated, collaborative partner in this health ecosystem.”
“We need many more people with the ability to foster cross-sector collaboration. This is a skill set that can be developed. The reason these leadership skill sets are so important is because once you create an understanding and accurate perceptions, a lot of the resistance barriers dissipate quickly. I would say that we would all make progress if we had more people who had the skills and capabilities to reach across sectors and put themselves in the other side’s shoes.”
“Gaining buy-in from stakeholders is really all about making sure their concerns are heard and addressed. Do that and you’ll alleviate a lot of tensions.”
“In finding collaborative solutions with diverse companies, we must embrace that while our respective companies may differ on some issues, we clearly share common ground on other issues…”
“All players in the ecosystem share the goal of providing higher quality, more accessible, more affordable care to the people we serve… Unless we begin to see partnerships with shared accountability and coordination of functions across the various players, we’re not going to advance to the next level. It’s time for a new model.”
“The problems facing the health industry today are far too complex and wide-ranging for any one sector to solve independently… the solutions needed to change healthcare and health outcomes significantly start with the leaders who embody a clear vision and who demonstrate the skills required to work collaboratively across multiple and disparate sectors in the industry.”
“Even if the system will never have a single blueprint to guide it forward, leaders do have access to a formula that works. The healthcare ecosystem leadership model is such a formula, and the leaders who adopt it with passionate intent will be poised to address both the challenges and the opportunities of teaming across sectors to transform healthcare.”
“Driving value is not just a tagline- it’s an actionable event. By transforming ourselves, we transform others, taking the well-being of our nation seriously.”
“Learning leaders take the time to consider what worked, what didn’t work, and how they can take what they’ve learned from the experience and try something different. Developing leaders with this capacity should be on the forefront of our attention.”
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