A successful and societally beneficial healthcare organization must have a leader who has a sense of right and wrong, exhibits restraint, dispenses wisdom, and is a visionary that guides the organization to reach its maximum potential. The role of a successful leader is dependent upon employees that embrace the organization’s culture, mission, and direction. An effective leader rallies employee support and allegiance to the organization’s cause. An influential leader can elicit employee positivity and dedication, and has the ability to engage employees in achieving goals set forth by the organization and leadership. The organizational structure in the health care setting should be clearly defined, with each leadership role placed on a structural chart for easy comprehension. The highest leadership role of the organization can have a variety of names; president, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chairman, but the role is the same regardless of the title. The CEO (the title that will be used throughout the paper) is responsible for the direction, culture, vision, and mission of the organization. The CEO is responsible for the high-level managerial decisions and the implementation of the organization’s short-term and long-term plans. The CEO performs as a liaison between the organization’s Board of Directors and the management. In most cases the CEO reports and communicates to the Board of Directors on behalf of the organization’s management (Glick, 2011, p. 175-179) The
The superior act of living an effective life lies in the pursuit of excellent vision, to move from where we are to where we ought to be, either as a person or as an organization. A health care leader must motivate the organizational team, find how to work with the associates to effectively dedicate their time and energy to achieve the identified goals and objectives through the established vision. The team members need to buy into the vision, where they are currently doing what the leader envisions, the leader must encourage them, keep them on track and set standards for the team by setting goals and objective, flowing from the vision. This will enable the leader to move the health care organization to the expected performance level within the set time period. The leader must ensure that individual responsibilities of the associates are identified, motivated and resources provided to achieve the identified goals. To pursue the vision, I will lead the development of the health care organization’s strategic alignment of clear goals and objectives, to preserve the core mission and encourage progress toward the envisioned future state. Also, I will encourage and provide the direction for the organization without hindering the development of the goals that we expect to accomplish.
Healthcare systems are in needs of future leaders, cultivating high-potential employees should be the priority of any organization. With the omnibus leadership model, healthcare facilities need to develop and identified high-potential employees as early as possible. This can be done by improving or developing
According to McConell (2012), the difference in a leader and a follower determines the success of a person regarding leadership. This chapter helps explain the content of qualities and proficiency for healthcare managers to be effective. Once again, effective management skills or certain qualifications enhance a healthcare organization environment. Healthcare managers and supervisors must have the capacity to handle challenges while the organization objectives and regulations may change over a period of time. Effective healthcare management governs the success of a healthcare organization. There are many different skill sets and leadership styles to be effective as a manager. People are interested in knowing what strategies are effective
The key to the success of a healthcare organization is defined by the many qualities and attributes its leaders possess when overseeing patient care. Such care, whether executed at the micro, meso, or macro level, can be beneficial to an organization, or results in the failure when change is inappropriately addressed. A strong leader is one who can manage change, and direct care throughout all the numerous levels of an organization by utilizing values that are a reflection of the bureaucratic thoughts and principles, or the complex adaptive system.
Leadership is much more than just leading people, it also requires vision. This vision can be focused locally or globally, as long as it provides a goal for the advancement of your organization (Ledlow & Coppola, 2012, p. 141). One such visionary is Ms. Rebecca Onie, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Health Leads, and member of the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation External Advisory Council (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 2014, p. 1). While her origins are not based in healthcare, her aspirations and healthcare leadership have changed the way many providers think about healthcare.
Providing a Collective Leadership Strategy in American Healthcare System Introduction The impact of organizational culture on the quality of care, organizational effectiveness and safety are evident in all healthcare organizations. It has been highlighted in several pieces of research that the health sector needs a healthy corporate culture to be successful. The leadership of these facilities bear the greatest influence on the culture of an organization.
According to Beaufort, Longest, and Darr (2008), there are three key component structures of health service organizations and health systems, including: the governing body, management, and professional staff organizations. The governing body can be one individual or a group of people who rule an organization. The governing body has several major roles, and responsibilities. They are responsible to select credential candidates, such as chief executive of staffs (Beaufort et al., 2008, p. 62). They have authority to change things around, and create policies; they lead, plan, organize, and control the organization. They are responsible to protect the members of the organization, set goal, ethics and values (Beaufort et al., 2008, p. 61). Overall,
Olden, P. (2011). Management of healthcare organizations: An introduction (Second ed., Vol. 2, p. 329). Chicago, Illionis: Health Administration Press.
There’s increasing need for new leadership and helping organizations develop innovative ways to build rapport with workers and improve their management skills. In the health care field, the development of compelling and inspiring leaders is critical. During this age, when the health care field and life in general are surrounded by clouds of uncertainty, medical professionals need encouragement in taking on responsibilities to the full extent of their capabilities. Health care advocates support a three-fold concept of vision, organizational culture and operational excellence to support this kind of work environment. With the right vision and encouragement, health care leaders can create rising
The 21st century healthcare worker should have characteristics and leadership styles that will fit the needs of the company. The different leadership qualities that need to be instilled in a good leader can be hard to find in one person. I started to research this topic and found there are several of the same qualities that generalize what an effective leader presents. According to our textbook “The well managed healthcare organization” by Griffith and White, a good leader will empower their associates, listen effectively, support excellent service and have good negotiating skills.
The healthcare industry is constantly and rapidly changing. With such change in the healthcare industry, strong leadership is required for a healthcare organization to reach its’ potential. The article discusses the Executive Leadership Development (ELD) program. The program expands opportunities for leadership and organizational growth. The program is relatively new and have proven effectiveness, and it is utilized more with small healthcare systems (McAlearney, 2010).
Leadership is defined as the process of visualising to a better future; whereby one motivates and enticing others to think and plan ahead as to facilitate the change (Jones, 2007). However, according to Bishop (2009), healthcare professionals have a poor leadership skills due to lack of strong leaders, who mainly emphasise more on traditional models of management. Therefore, they require leaders who have a good communication and decision-making skills to be able to handle stress and time management efficiently (Tomey, 2009). Thus, the fundamental concepts of leadership are important, as to help leaders to look at the different surroundings of situations and to be able to adjust their leadership style accordingly (Tomey, 2009).
In health care today, leaders are important to ensure that the system continues to move forward, to improve, and survive with all of the changes that are occurring at an alarming rate. A leader, according to Sullivan (2013) “is anyone who uses interpersonal skills to influence others to accomplish a specific goal” (p. 41). Leadership can be in a formal or informal within an organization depending on their position within an organization (Sullivan, 2013). For this particular assignment, this writer performed an interview with the Vice President of Finance, Physician Services, and Business Development of our local hospital.
Self-Assessment and Effective Leadership in healthcare Name Institutional affiliation Leadership involves directing ones workforce in doing the undesirable (Truman, 1958) Effective leadership is core in manoeuvring through challenges present in the health sector. It also encourages teamwork among leaders and civilisation in an organisation. The health care environment is very churning hence in order to overcome this; leadership should be treated as a continual learning process (vaill,1998) The following leadership examples deemed personally meaningful Regina Benjamin
Good organization managements in healthcare are crucial. To justify this statement, I will start by providing an overview regarding organization management in healthcare organization. Organization management in healthcare are intricate and powerful because it requires managers that can furnish leadership among healthcare workers, as well as planning, controlling, directing, organizing and making decision. This statement was supported by previous study conducted by ((Pousette, 2001) & (Harenstam, 2005)), managerial positions in healthcare organizations are complex and require the responsible managers to deal with different objectives, such as rising productivity and quality while reducing the cost, ((Maslachet et al, 2001) & (Pousette, 2001))