HiFi Leadership Program

"Harnessing the power of simulation to help leaders in academic healthcare to develop and hone skills before they need them."

About The Program

The Health improvement & Faculty innovation (HiFi) program has been designed with the realization that for leaders to be good practitioners, they need a safe space to develop and hone their skills. Our immersive blended learning experience will allow them to close the learning and doing gap.

• As academia and health systems evolve and develop in complexity, there is an increasing need to foster both knowledge of core skills and capabilities so that leaders are prepared before (or shortly after) they assume roles within our institutions.
• We know that in today’s world, learning through failure is not a great way to help leaders flourish.
• In healthcare, we use simulation to create spaces where individuals and teams can have safe zones to practice, debrief, learn, and grow – without the threat of harming those in their charge. For leaders, spaces like this are also needed.
• The HiFi program seeks to help leaders navigate complex, hi-fidelity problems within a safe environment, giving them the know-how to lean into their academic health leadership role.

The Focus

• Simulate hi-fidelity, complex, and multi-stakeholder leadership and management issues
• Provide leaders with a simulated environment to reflect, learn, fail, gain insight about themselves, and grow
• Enhance collaboration between faculty and administrative leaders
• Build a strong, trusted network of peers
• Develop confidence in using cultural, financial and strategy concepts and tools
• Move teams toward desired features

The Format

The Experience

A truly groundbreaking experience – these high-potential leaders will be mentored through challenging political, financial, and structural problems in a simulated setting.

• Small, collaborative groups will be created to allow for connection, networking, and peer mentorship
• Facilitators and instructors will expose participants to new approaches and strategies for engaging others, creating safe spaces, negotiating tricky situations, and learning to become more audacious and daring – all within a safe, simulated environment
• Constant feedback loops will help participants to discover aspects about themselves that will assist their personal growth, while helping to develop nascent skills that will be needed in their current and future roles.

The Network

We know that a leadership program needs to be more than a one-time engagement.

• We aim to create an alumni network that will build a community that returns each year to help co-facilitate HiFi in the future.
• Those who engage in a return-of-service will be able to partake in new modules and/or engage in co-design of new programming for the future iterations and expansion of HiFi.
• We imagine that this network will work alongside the HLA National Fellows, creating a possible pipeline for future candidates for that program.

The Difference

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