Vertical Development for Healthcare Leaders

Build your network for Colliding Perspectives

As a forward looking healthcare leader, an effective professional network is a game-changer. It’s a group of people where you give and get support, advice, challenges and those all-important colliding perspectives that bring about great solutions to the challenges you’re facing.

To make a start on your network, download this worksheet where you’ll

  • Get a view of your current network - those 15 people who are your core connections in your professional circles.

  • Reflect on how open, diverse and deep that network is.

  • Consider who else it would be great to have in your network, and build a network for your future.

We don't have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.

Brené Brown

Your professional network is a group of about 15 people who are ‘on your bus’. They are there to advise, support, challenge and encourage. A good network is built for your future - not your past. This does not mean you throw everyone off the bus from your past, you just might need to swap in a few different people

Aren’t you surrounded by people every day? Aren’t they your network?

Not necessarily, yes, some may be for sure. Your bus is filled intentionally, you decide who is on the bus.

This intentional network is a crucial asset to you and your career. They can open doors, literally, and they are also there for wisdom, pointers, guidance and perspective. These colliding perspectives are a core component of vertical development, so your network is key to your evolving practice and mindset as a leader.

A good network can provide all this and so much more - and a good network is open, diverse and deep.