This question was the focus of participants in a corporate program at the UCU Business School, who are doctors and managers of rehabilitation centers in the Recovery network.
Recovery is a national network of rehabilitation centers for wounded soldiers, formed as a partnership between the private sector and the state, where philanthropists create innovative rehabilitation centers based on state medical institutions. Viktor and Olena Pinchuk founded this project to support Ukraine’s Defense and Security Forces. Currently, there are 13 such centers across Ukraine. The project also aims to develop a professional community of managers and staff within the rehabilitation centers. Therefore, participants undergo the “Management and Leadership in Rehabilitation Medicine” course at the UCU Business School to enhance their skills and knowledge.
Together with Andrii Rozhdestvenskyi, a UCU Business School instructor and head of the UCU Leadership Center, participants in the first three-day module discussed leadership virtues, working with subordinates, the delegation process, decision-making approaches, and other aspects of leadership. The learning module was based on the case study methodology, which has successfully formed the foundation of our educational approach for many years.
At the end of each day, participants reflected on the material covered and how it could be applied in their work:
- “The greatest value lies in the real tools that actually work. We were shown examples of things we had been using to some extent, but intuitively and without a system. Now we have more precise ‘surgical instruments’ that allow us to predict what the outcome might be after applying them.”
- “After today’s session, I know exactly what I will do in the first few days when I return to my hospital. I realized that I need to delegate some of my responsibilities. There are leaders in my team who have informally taken over some of my duties, but for the sake of transparency, I need to communicate with the team so that everyone understands their role and reporting structure. It’s a complex system because we have a large department that is constantly growing, with many specialists. But now, I’ll work on this.”
- “The most important part of today was learning about the reward system. Such a system highlights the value of every reward we can offer to our employees and servicemen.”
We asked Yevheniya Kralenkova, head of corporate programs at the UCU Business School, about the importance and relevance of this course for the leaders of rehabilitation centers:
“Today, the entire society faces new challenges, and as an institution, it is our task to share our years of expertise in leadership and rehabilitation. The program aims to build on participants’ existing knowledge, improving the effectiveness of multidisciplinary teams both within the centers and in providing rehabilitation services to our defenders.”
Anna Tkachenko, program manager at the Recovery network, shared the goals they brought to the training:
“Working with a large number of doctors for almost two years, we as a management team realized that while they are all excellent specialists, doing incredible work to help our defenders recover from severe injuries, many of them lacked the managerial skills to develop their hospitals and manage their teams and departments. I’m delighted we found the answers to these challenges here, at the UCU Business School.”
“Training at the UCU Business School is a way to gain the necessary skills and find answers that allow you to move forward more effectively and achieve your goals in a shorter time frame. We all, in one way or another, need to be leaders in our fields. The knowledge we had previously gained was systematized and presented in a concentrated form over these three days. These insights and skills now allow us to make the puzzle more complete and give us practical tools that we can already use,” says Serhii Kolisnyk, associate professor at the Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine at Vinnytsia National Medical University and a course participant.
As a community at the UCU Business School, we are incredibly inspired by the passion and dedication of our participants and partners, who not only strive for professional development but also make contributions to society by helping our soldiers return to full lives. We seek to use our capabilities to transform our country in various sectors, and we are proud to contribute to a project that will help rehabilitation centers operate more effectively and provide better rehabilitation services to servicemen and women defending our country.
Interviews with Anna Tkachenko and Serhii Kolisnyk will soon be published on our media platforms.
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