Leadership Development Program Project for Beaumont Care: Analysis

This project focuses on developing a leadership development program for Beaumont Care, an aged care organization. The project aims to address workforce shortages, improve the leadership competency of senior management, and enhance the quality of services offered to the aging population. It involves a comprehensive analysis of the organization, including its services, challenges, and existing leadership styles. The project defines the scope, benefits, and constraints, outlining a program schedule, milestones, and cost estimates. The project employs quality controls, including feedback from supervisors and data from authentic sources, and includes a SWOT analysis of the researcher. The project also explores further research and provides references to support the findings. The project aims to contribute to the improvement of aged care services and address the challenges faced by aged care service providers in Australia and globally.

Developing leadership development
program for Beaumont care

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................1
BACKGROUND............................................................................................................... 1
Beaumont care organization.........................................................................................1
Significance of the project............................................................................................2
PROJECT DEFINITION...................................................................................................2
BENEFITS........................................................................................................................3
PROGRAM SCHEDULE..................................................................................................4
MILESTONES:.................................................................................................................5
INITIAL COST ESTIMATES.............................................................................................6
RISKS.............................................................................................................................. 6
QUALITY CONTROLS.....................................................................................................7
PERSONAL ASSESSMENT:............................................................................................8
FURTHER RESEARCH...................................................................................................8
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Project title: Developing leadership development program for Beaumont care
Australia and other countries in the world are facing ageing population related
issues at workplace. By considering this, in both rural and urban areas, demand for
aged care services is increasing continuously. However, shortages in workforce and
lack of availability of talented staffs are the major issues which are faced by Australian
government and aged care homes. In order to deal with such kind of problem,
government was taken initiative but still conditions of carers, support staff and other
aged care has not improved (Aubrey and Will, 2004).
The main aim of the project is to develop leadership program in order to solve
issues faced by ageing population and professionals such as overworked, underpaid,
and lack in confidence etc. The project is based on the leadership style followed in
Beaumont care. In order to better deal with these kinds of issues, leaders and
leadership styles can play an important role in the aged care sector. In this regard, it is
essential for the management of firm to concentrate on developing leadership skills to
better deal with these kinds of challenges (Nessa and Judith, 2015). Qualities and
characteristics of leader including creativity and strategic, drive innovation, adapting
changing demands and leading the change can be helpful for care home to better deal
with challenges of an increasingly ageing population kind of problem.
The entire report will be prepared under the guidance of Academic supervisor.
The main role of researcher in this project is to develop leadership development
program for Beaumont care. In order to complete the project within stipulated time,
researcher will work with other team members for the initial 3months. Total 12 members
will work in project team and out of them, 5 workers will work in different areas such as
medical and human resource management etc.
BACKGROUND
Beaumont care organization
As per the given case scenario, Beaumont care was taken which provides facility to
residents who require secure and fully sustained care. This health care firm encourages
an individual resident to do likeable and meaningful activities and providing the best
possible experience to every people (Beaumont Care, 2015). Residents have choices to
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spend time with their families and friends and maintaining long time relationship with
them. Besides that, care home emphasizes on establishing meaningful interactions,
projects, adventures and fun activities to extend best possible experience of aged care.
Other main services offered by Beaumont care can be explored as follow.
 Family support groups provide comfort
 Activities programs to engage residents (Finkleman, 2008)
 Enterprise staff provides emotional and spiritual support for residents
 Registered and Enrolled Nurses and Care personnel
 Physiotherapist use consistent approach to improving the well-being of residents
Significance of the project
From the literature review and analysis and from the present health care
scenario, it is observed that shortages in workforce personnel, maintaining high
standards, overworked and underpaid related issues are creating problems for
organizations and Australian government to deal with such kinds of problems in a
significant manner. The project is related to development of leadership program for care
home. After studying this project, an individual will be able to understand the role of
leadership development program to mitigate challenges faced by aged care service
providers in Australia and across the world. The project is based on workforce related
issues, the leadership development program, project and change management.
PROJECT DEFINITION
The main goal of this project is to develop a management training program to
improve leadership competency of senior management staff at Beaumont care. The
present project supports a strategic approach to leadership development across the
world (James and Barry, 2012).
 To explore needs of leadership development for the sector
 To determine leadership development requirements at Beaumont care to
overcome issues which are faced by the organization.
 To improve the leadership competency of senior management staff at Beaumont
care
Project scope
This is 11 months project and initial three months is spent on literature review
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and understanding the leadership approaches used by care home. While 8 weeks’ time
will be required for collecting data using survey method from respondents (Moiden,
2003). The current project should attain minimum of 10% success. After completing the
project, conditions of Beaumont care in terms of leadership development and services
will be improved.
Constraints associated with project
 Time constraints: The proper allocation of time towards various aspects is
required to measure levels of success (Thomas, 2004).
 Resources constraints: In order to interact with leadership competency of
senior staff, organizes survey and availability of staff are essential to give
answers of questionnaires will require.
 Skill constraints: In order to conduct survey and collect responses from senior
staff, adequate amount of social and language skills will be required (Byham and
et.al., 2002).
Project deliverable/outcomes
 Firm will able to understand challenges which are faced by leaders in aged care
sector
 Gaps will be identified
 Leadership competency of senior staff at Beaumont care
 Better quality of services will be offered to age population
 Work force and other kinds of issues may be solved
Dependencies
The project is controlled by health care service providers.
BENEFITS
 Staff skills and retention will enhance
 Help in addressing an issue that is faced by various aged care provider
organizations across Australia.
 Improve the leadership competency of its senior staff
 Improving the efficiency, economy and sustainability of organization
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE
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ACTIVITY/MONTHS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Project Planning
Understanding the
challenges faced by the
leaders in aged care
(Beaumont Care)
Gaining an understanding
of leadership competency
among senior staff
Preparing a Project
Planning Report
Literature Review
Undertaking Survey
Gaps/ Needs Analysis
Identifying strategies that
can be used in the
Beaumont Care context
Creating A Draft of the
Project Report
Project confirmation
Preparing the Final Project
Report

Figure 1: Activity schedule details
Figure 2: Gantt chart
MILESTONES:
The main milestones of the project are
 Drafting a project plan
 Undertaking a Literature Review
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 Analyzing the current leadership competency among the senior staff at
Beaumont Care (Australian government, 2013)
 Undertaking an gap analysis
 Developing a management-training program to improve the leadership
competency at Beaumont Care
 Preparing the final project report
INITIAL COST ESTIMATES
It estimates that technology tools, academic supervision rate ($100 per hour) and
other costs to support the project will be required.
RISKS
The major risks associated with project and strategies to overcome risks can be
described as follow.
Risk Consequence Likelihood Risk level Control
rating
Strategies to
manage risk
Limited time
period
Major Certain High Satisfactory Time
management
strategies
Prioritize
whole work
Gantt chart
Availability of
staff
Major Certain High Satisfactory One to one
interact
Communicate
project to
senior staff
Project
supervisor
unavailability
Moderate Rare Low Good Prior
appointment
Planning
advance
Knowledge Minor Unlikely Low Good Conducting
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and
understandin
g
literature
review and
ask question
from senior
staff
QUALITY CONTROLS
By taking feedback from academic and workplace supervisors on regular
intervals, it can be ensured that the project is of the best quality. Besides that, quality
and reliability of entire project plan can be enhanced by collecting data from authentic
sources. Success of project can be measured in terms of determining the quality policy,
objectives, and responsibilities and implements them in a proper manner.
For the purpose of improving quality, PDSA cycle can be considered (Nessa
and Judith 2015).
 P: Plan: The project begins with meeting with supervisor and discussing about
the project implementation, resources required and Gantt chart for time frame. By
considering all criteria, project will be planned.
 D: Do/Implement: In order to understand age care development strategy,
researcher had gone through Advance care planning training program held on 6th
of October. In this regard, proper approval from supervisor was taken. By
preparing Gantt chart and taking feedback from supervisor, doubts arise in the
project can be solved.
 S/Study/Evaluation: Data evaluation and analysis task can be done. The success
of the project will be discussed with supervisor and other staff
 A: Act: If the project is successful then sample size can be increased and all staff
of Beaumont care can be included (Health Leadership Development Program,
2014).
Control procedures
Contingency plan contains information about delays caused by factors such as
inability to access data from respondents and equipment failure etc.
Change control: The impact of change in schedule plan will be analyzed which helps
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the researcher to analyze the change which either be included into the project or
excluded.
Schedule control: A reflection on the progress of the project on continuous basis will
require in implementing project in a proper manner.
Conflict resolution: If any issue will arise during implementation of project then it will
discuss with academic and workplace supervisor in order to solve issue.
PERSONAL ASSESSMENT:
Table 1: SWOT analysis
SWOT
analysi
s
Strengths Weakness Opportunity Threats
 Good work
ethic
 Calm under
pressure
 Confidence
 Honest and
hardworking
(Aubrey
and Will
2004)
 Time
manage
ment
 I have no
exposure
to
Australia
n Work
environm
ent
 Limited
Technical
Abilities
 Good
opportu
nity to
work on
a live
project
 It
provides
me a
change
to
improve
interper
sonal
skills
 Limited time
frame
 Complexity
of project
FURTHER RESEARCH
In order to support the project in future leadership program can be assessed and
involvement of senior staff can be enhanced to better understand the workforce and
leadership related challenges and solved them in a significant manner. In addition,
leadership capability diagnosis and Leadership Capability Framework can be built to
explore current project.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Aubrey, M. and Will M., 2004. Building Leaders: Blueprints for Developing Leadership at
Every Level of Your Church. Baker Books.
Australian government, 2013. Aged Care Leadership Development Project.
Byham, C. and et.al., 2002. Grow Your Own Leaders: How to Identify, Develop, and
Retain Leadership Talent. FT Press.
Finkleman, 2008. Leadership and Management In Nursing. Pearson Education India.
James, M. and Barry Z., 2012. The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary
Things Happen in Organizations. John Wiley & Sons.
Moiden, N., 2003. Leadership and the Elder Care Home Sector: Personal Life Vs Work
Life of Health Care Workers. Trafford Publishing.
Nessa, C. and Judith A. P., 2015. Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing. Oxford
University Press.
Thomas, R., 2004. Developing Transportation Agency Leaders. Transportation
Research Board.
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Beaumont Care, 2015. [Online]. Available through:< http://www.beaumontcare.com.au/
>. [Accessed on 8th October 2015].
Health Leadership Development Program, 2014. [Online]. Available through:<
http://www.lift360.org/programs-services/leadership-development/health-
leadership-development/>. [Accessed on 8th October 2015].
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