Our strategy unpacked
Over the past several months, my leadership team and I have worked closely with PriceWaterhouseCoopers to refine our strategy. Working with an external partner has been both insighful and eye-opening because it has forced us to take an honest, open look at ourselves and our business. Since then, we have refined our strategy to ensure that it clearly reflects our vision. With this important piece now complete, I look forward to sharing it with you. In the coming weeks, the leadership will present the strategy to you, and together, we will unpack what it means to practically demonstrate our pillars in our everyday work. At the end of its rollout, we hope that each one of you will clearly understand the vision, our direction and where you valuably fit. Change Management and Marketing will collaborate to support the implementation of this initiative and will communicate more about this in due course.
We celebrate the successful pilot of the ViGOR system
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who were part of the successful rollout of ViGOR, our Primary Healthcare and Occupational Health system. Since its rollout to pilot sites in November 2023, ViGOR has been implemented at several of our onsite and offsite clinics. It has changed the way we do things and has eliminated the need to manually capture medical records or manually issue certificates of fitness. To date, our clinics have processed and issued more than 6,000 digital certificates. With these digital transactions, we are able to tap into valuable data and gain deeper insights into our clients' health risks, which previously would have taken a substantial amount of time and effort to collect. Through the continued evolution of ViGOR, we can expect to see greater advancements in the way we take care of our clients.
Congratulations, Novia One Class of 2023
We are proud to announce the graduates of the Novia One Business Administration and Customer Management (NQF 5) learnership programmes. In its second year of offering learnerships to employees, Life Health Solutions hopes to help them increase their value in the workplace by acquiring new business skills and upskilling themselves. Twenty individuals entered the one-year learnership programme in June 2023 using Novia One Business School as our training partner. A virtual graduation ceremony was held on 23 April to celebrate this milestone.
Bruce Janssens commended the graduates for persevering and going the extra mile over and above their day-to-day workload. The Novia One course facilitator, Hendrik Nel, was particularly impressed with their passion throughout and with the collaboration and ideas they presented. Johanita Bester won the award for top Business Administration graduate, and Candice Wax won the award for top Customer Management graduate. Johanita Bester and Zoelfa Jacobs were the Shark Tank winners for the Business Administration programme, and Idah Ncube, Kholofelo Manoko, and Retha Preston were the Shark Tank winners for the Customer Management programme.
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The class of the 2023 GIBS programme has graduated
Graduates of the Advanced Diploma in General Management class of 2023 have graduated from the Gordon Institute of Business School (GIBS). The graduation ceremony was held at the University of Pretoria on 15 April. Life Healthcare partnered with GIBS to foster co-creation and innovation in the healthcare space and unlock each participant's leadership potential. The one-year programme covered several key action areas, including strategic leadership and operational effectiveness, among others. Among the graduates were Sanchia Pillay (Bid Manager) and Christelle Maree (Regional Quality Manager). Christelle won the award for best business strategy, while Sanchia received the award for strategic project management. Collectively, the graduates achieved 43 distinctions.
Through this qualification, both Christelle and Sanchia aim to enhance their skills and knowledge, as well as their critical and analytical thinking, so that they can lead meaningful change for the company. We congratulate all the graduates for their exceptional academic and personal achievements.
You can read the full story of the GIBS programme in the monthly Tabloid.
Jade to the rescue!
In March, we posted a story on LinkedIn about Jade Hanekom, a Business Manager and an Intermediate Life Support (ILS) practitioner, who heroically came to the aid of a traffic officer who had been involved in a serious car accident. Since we published the story, it has been one of our most popular posts to date.
If you missed it, click here to read the full story.
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