Leadership that improves outcomes
From technology advancements and regulatory changes to shifting patient demographics, healthcare is constantly evolving. And leadership needs to be evolving with it.
But finding skilled leaders amid heavy competition and a shrinking labor pool can be challenging. If your organization wants to retain talent at all levels and stay prepared for succession, start with building your current leadership readiness.
Wipfli offers a variety of healthcare leadership development services designed to give your leaders the skills and practical strategies they need to drive performance.
Why Wipfli?
Wipfli understands the obstacles your leadership faces in a demanding healthcare industry.
Our healthcare leadership training helps your leadership develop the skills they need to excel, with targeted programs aligned with your organization’s specific needs and objectives. And our programs go beyond basic upskilling so that your leaders are equipped to develop others, support change and build engaged, high-performing teams.
How we help you
Develop your workforce with Wipfli’s strategic guidance for graduate medical education (GME) planning, implementation and administration.
Wipfli has decades of experience serving the GME strategy and implementation needs of federally qualified health centers, sole community hospitals, rural health clinics, critical access hospitals, primary care consortia and academic health centers. And no other firm offers the wide range of services we do.
We can help position your organization to thrive and attract a talented pool of residents with services including:
- Physician needs assessment
- Feasibility study
- Economic impact analysis
- Direct and indirect GME reimbursement analysis and financial modeling
- Sponsoring institution process development and execution
- GME administration
- Site visit preparation
- GME accreditation and compliance
We work together with you to gain a deep understanding of your organization’s unique challenges and help ensure that you develop, execute and maintain a high-quality program. Our hands-on approach means that when the ACGME site visitor comes to assess your GME program compliance, we stand with you to make sure you’re prepared. And if the site visitor throws you a curveball, we help provide comprehensive answers to their questions on the spot.
Engage leadership skills development that can empower your key leaders, faculty and administration to achieve the goals of your organization.
Wipfli’s Leadership Essentials takes your leaders on a nine-part journey to help equip them with the knowledge and skills they need to reenergize their teams, drive innovation and overcome conflicts and stress. This flexible program is tailored to your organization with training that’s aligned with your strategic goals and has measurable outcomes so that you see a clear ROI.
Effective communication and a shared focus on caring for patients are crucial to creating high-functioning teams.
Wipfli can help your teams overcome silos and increase their awareness of self and others with our data-based approach to team development. We use proven assessments to better understand the group and individual dynamics present in your teams and then create customized exercises to address any roadblocks to their success.
Discover how executive coaching for healthcare leaders can help you develop transformational leadership.
Wipfli offers coaching for medical executives and leadership that can help them address specific skill deficits and reach their full potential. Whether your leaders have gaps in financial management, regulatory knowledge, technology implementation or other critical areas, we can help.
Our coaches help develop customized plans and deliver one-on-one, personal coaching so that your leaders have the guidance and support they need to meet the unique demands of your organization.
Leveraging talent assessment tools can give you the data you need to create a stronger, more engaged workforce.
In a tight labor market, understanding how to attract and allocate talent is critical. Wipfli can help you apply proven talent assessment tools to your people strategy so that you’re hiring the right talent for your culture and giving them roles where they can thrive.
We help you make data-driven decisions about people with support for tools including Predictive Index, EQ-i and 360 evaluations.
Our team
Tom Cox
Tom Cox leads Wipfi's leadership development programs. As a partner with 35 years of experience, clients benefit from Tom’s demonstrated ability to develop leaders and teams, cascading plans and accountability throughout organizations.
Jeffrey H. Wulf
Jeff Wulf combines experiences in management consulting and business process improvement to provide a unique blend of talents for Wipfli’s clients. He specializes in developing holistic consulting strategies aimed at improving overall client performance.
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