Whether you’re a new leader or an experienced head, workplaces are constantly changing. It’s always worth self-reflecting on your leadership style to ensure you effectively support your team and organisation as a whole. In this section, you’ll find a collection of informative articles to help you become the best leader you can be.
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Aged care turnover isn’t a pay problem: it’s a visibility crisis
New polling from Mirus Australia reveals aged care turnover is driven by workload, burnout, and culture – over pay. Leaders face a visibility crisis, leaving preventable resignations hidden in roster patterns and unmeasured morale.
Beyond compliance: The leadership challenge shaping aged care’s next chapter
As aged care embeds its post-Royal Commission reforms, sector leaders are asking a new question: what comes after compliance? Experts agree strong governance is essential, but future success will depend on leadership, judgement and creating the conditions for older Australians to genuinely thrive.
Aged care needs experienced leaders. So why is it screening them out?
Aged care is short of experienced leaders, while capable professionals in their 50s and 60s can find themselves pushed out of other industries. Is the sector overlooking a ready-made leadership pool by prioritising aged care experience over transferable corporate skills?
When home is still the answer: why live-in care deserves a place in aged care conversations
Residential care isn’t the only option when family support reaches its limit. Discover how live-in care offers a viable, continuous home-based alternative for older Australians – and why aged care leaders should raise this option with families before crisis strikes.
The next crisis in australian aged care isn’t workforce, it’s clinical complexity
Aged care faces a quiet crisis as resident clinical complexity outpaces traditional service models, according to Michael Foenander. This leaves providers urgently needing strategic gerontological capability over simple compliance to remain viable.
How retirement communities can prepare for changing resident expectations
Changing resident expectations, ageing in place and increasingly complex support needs are reshaping retirement living. Dr Roger Pallant of the NSW Retirement Village Residents Association says leaders need to plan for that change and bring residents into the conversation.
Australia has its first national nursing workforce strategy. Now health leaders must deliver it.
Australia has its first National Nursing Workforce Strategy, but a strategy alone won’t fix a 79,000-nurse deficit. Arun Thomas explores how the true test for health leaders lies in converting a 10-year policy blueprint into real, sustainable capacity on the ground.
Why Australia’s aged care legislation struggles with community-led solutions
After 15 years of planning, fundraising and refining a financially viable model, one rural Victorian community is still unable to build an aged care facility. Wedderburn’s experience raises broader questions about whether Australia’s regulatory framework can accommodate community-led solutions.
Support at Home Senate inquiry: what Uniting wants aged care providers to know
What happens when someone is assessed as needing more care, but the funding isn’t there to provide it? Uniting NSW.ACT says the current gap is putting pressure on older people, providers and the wider aged care system.
Avian Flu has arrived: Why communication is aged care’s strongest defence
Avian influenza may pose a low immediate risk to aged care, but it offers a timely reminder that outbreak preparedness extends beyond infection control. The lasting lesson from COVID is that compassionate, confident communication is as critical to resident wellbeing as any clinical response.
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