“As Iron Sharpens Iron, So One Man Sharpens Another”

Proverbs 27:17

When people have a partner they trust, they will always reach for more because they know that they have a colleague, coach or mentor helping them, and expecting them, to attain that goal.

The future of healthcare management in the US and the World for that matter rests largely in the hands of mid-careerists health executives as well as those only now entering the field. Our future health executive leaders are those who aspire to new and greater management opportunities and understand they must develop leadership skills to be effective in their work.

“HealthYncubator: Incubating Success”

What We Do

HealthYncubator is an innovation and leadership development company focused on incubating healthcare executives and assisting them to develop creative ways to lead and better manage their responsibilities within their respective organizations.

Through one-on-one coaching, advising, and mentoring, we help the executives continuously evolve and grow as health professionals. We accurately perform SWOT assessments in order to appropriately coordinate, structure, and execute their business practices.

What Makes Yoda an Effective Coach?

The Star Wars Saga

In the second film of the Star Wars saga, The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker discovers that he needs help on his journey to become a Jedi Knight. He recognizes that he cannot achieve his true potential without some guidance and training. He needs someone to provide direction and practical knowledge so he can acquire the understanding and skill to use The Force, the energy in the universe, wisely and effectively.

  
Yoda, whom Luke meets on an isolated planet in the galaxy, initially appears to be an unlikely guide for such a momentous journey. Yet the elfish character puts up with Luke's initial insolence and arrogance, takes him under his pointed ears and manages to bring out the Knight that is within him. Yoda demonstrates, as the coach of coaches, how to give support to a promising individual, how to offer challenges that permit one to learn and grow, and how to provide vision so that the "protégé" gains confidence and, eventually, independence to lead.

For Every $1.00 Spent $7.90 is Earned in Return

Booz Allen Hamilton

HealthYncubator is a firm that supports and augments a healthcare organization’s Board of Director’s succession planning as well as the CEO’s mentoring and executive development initiatives. Our model is executive coaching and unlike traditional organizational development consulting, we use our coaching platform as a foundation to achieve short and middle range goals, and our alumni mentoring program to keep them on track throughout their careers. We further customize our coaching relationship to meet the demands of the CEO or Board, and the individual needs of the protégé.

A recent survey by Manchester Consulting of their Fortune 1000 clients found that respondents’ utilization of professional coaching resulted in:

      77% improved relationships with their direct reports;

            71% improved relationships with their bosses; and

            61% noted improved job satisfaction.

Additional evidence shows that executive coaches offer a substantial return on investment. According to studies conducted by MetrixGlobal LLC, several employers, including consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, have received an average return of $7.90 for every $1 invested in executive coaching. Among the benefits to the organization are better team chemistry, improved performance, and higher retention rates.

The Pressure to Avoid Failure can Lead to It

U.S. Productivity

While on-the-job experiences and continuing education go a long way toward preparing tomorrow’s leaders, the value of executive coaching and long-term mentoring these individuals is a must in today’s rapid change environment.

Professional organizations such as the ACHE, MGMA, AHCA and ACPE all outline mentorship programs they ask their members to take on as an important aspect of a protégé’s lifelong learning and leadership skills development process. However, as health organizations continue to deal with reimbursement issues, regulatory and ethic concerns, rapid changes in service markets, mergers with other organizations, downsized and/or reorganized staff, executives' job responsibilities and workloads are in a constant state of flux where the executive team’s time has tripled in value over the past 10 years.

This pressure can prevent capable executives from making visionary and innovative decisions. While your team may be performing their jobs effectively, they may not be developing the skills necessary to grow and evolve into the leaders your organization or the country needs to lead the changes required for future survival and success. To combat this situation, you should consider how an executive coach can enhance your executives’ performance.

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities Threats

Marion Kaufman Foundation

Coaching in health management is relatively young, but over the past ten years Fortune 1000 company CEOs have increasingly turned to executive coaches to improve their personal and team performance. Today many of these companies are hiring executive coaches to train hundreds of their executives and potential executives at a time.

To be forward thinking health executives, we must understand that innovation is needed to compete today, not only in the ways we provide health services to our customers and deal with our suppliers, but also in how we develop ourselves and those future executives taking over when we retire or move on to another position.

Just as business consultants perform SWOT analysis on the organization, an executive coach performs a SWOT on the individual executive in order to assist him or her to define their strengths and weaknesses, and understand the opportunities and threats that exist in their current work environment. Once an assessment is completed and gaps are identified, the executive coach creates a plan with the individual and guides the executive through the specific goals taking advantage of this knowledge and the desired results outlined by the CEO and/or Board.

For the individual protégé, the impact of executive coaching can be the difference between a dead-end job and a fast-track career. Our executive coaches can help healthcare executives smooth out the rough edges in their personalities and manage their time efficiently so they can balance their long hours at the office with quality-of-life concerns such as enough time for personal health, family, civic service, hobbies, relaxation, and faith needs.

Execute Your Plan

Peter Drucker

Health executive coaching does not preclude the need for mentoring. Rather, it is another tool to help you, whether you're an early careerist or a seasoned senior executive, improve your skills and become even more successful in your field.

Please contact me personally, so I may answer anymore of your questions and we can discuss how to engage our firm to serve you.

Sincerely,

Gordon

Gordon Jones, DHA, MHSA, PAHM, PPM

Owner & Coach

Gordon@healthyncubator.com

706-564-9275