Marina Bowshall, Chief Executive of Preventive Health SA, takes us through some of the early signs that she sees as a result of the machinery of government change she has been leading over the past couple of years in this frequently asked question, including better strategic alignment across the organisation in knowing their purpose, improved collaboration between middle managers and across projects and increased knowledge sharing between workers.
Marina Bowshall, Chief Executive of Preventive Health SA, provides the process that they are undertaking in their agency to provide a tiered stakeholder structure, achieved through an assessment matrix of their 280 stakeholders, to determine where they best need to invest the time of their stakeholders, and their agency, to develop robust stakeholder engagement plans that will best move the policy and program agenda that they are responsible for forward.
Having a background in health from previous positions helped Marina Bowshall, Chief Executive of Preventive Health SA, engage with pivotal people in various sectors early on in the process of leading a machinery of government change in setting up the new agency of Preventive Health. Marina talks us through this process and how she empowered everyone throughout the agency to engage with the key people they were in contact with to encourage engagement outside of the organisation and to start building their networks again.
Marina Bowshall, Chief Executive of Preventive Health SA, provides insights into the outcomes she saw when she gave her leadership team more autonomy as a result of a machinery of government change in this frequently asked question and shares how the polarity of responses from individuals was fascinating: Some found the changes exciting, while others recoiled.
In short, it's essential. Being authentic and dealing with change is challenging for both individuals and leaders alike. Marina Bowshall, Chief Executive of Preventive Health SA, shares three key strategies she used to build an open-door policy and establish a quick rapport with teams as she led her organisation through change. She details these in this frequently asked question.
There are many challenges when leading through a machinery of government change, each with its own complexities. Marina Bowshall, Chief Executive of Preventive Health SA, talks us through some of the challenges she experienced in this frequently asked question, including one of the biggest challenges she faced being cultural change and bringing people along to see the value in the change and their role and position in it.
It's been an interesting last couple of years for Marina Bowshall, Chief Executive of Preventive Health SA, in developing their new agency, which would positively impact South Australians' health and wellbeing. In this frequently asked question, Marina takes us through the three things at the forefront of her mind when she took up the opportunity in September 2023 to approach leading the machinery of government change with energy, empathy, and self-reflection.