Good Vs. Bad Leaders: A Healthcare Experience

It was an amazing first day of Leadership in Health Care Administration course in this new semester. The class reflected about LEADERSHIP. Health care administration is all about management and leadership. The new class started pointing what is leadership, the theories of leadership, leadership styles and skills and reviewing leadership style.

Kouzes and Posner (2017) stated leaders must challenge the process through searching an opportunities and doing experiments, taking risks, and learning from mistakes. They must challenge themselves to grow and learn. They must grab an opportunities to innovate, develop, and progress. Leaders challenge their team members to find out new approach to old problems. Experimenting and taking risk are the way to make an innovative improvements. They must grab an opportunities although there are some errors or mistakes initially along the way to success. They must celebrate small wins and take as stepping stones and learn from mistakes so that they can achieve ultimate goal making their team to do so (Kouzes and Posner (2012).

Consider the changes you have already noticed within your practice setting as well as those anticipated due to health care reform.

Healthcare is constantly changing and advancing, which requires nurses to possess complex leadership skills that can be utilized to accomplish the most successful outcome possible for each individual patient (Titzer, Phillips, Tooley, Hall, & Shirey, 2013). Managing these fundamental challenges necessitates the ability to acquire knowledgeable research and implement it into a strategic plan of care for individuals and/or communities (Titzer et al., 2013). In this paper I will explain why I chose the leader and manager role, and I will examine the challenges and opportunities faced with this role. I will also discuss the theories related to this role, and I will review the competences and experience that must be achieved for this role.

116) refers the third as “The Uncomfortable Gap.” Decisions become tougher and the gaps between poor and average achievers become unacceptable. The need to create a system becomes obvious as inconsistencies are more noticeable. Average and outstanding achievers will take notice and remark on the changes of more visible leadership, better tools, better communication and so forth. Poor achievers will rest and wait for the next big thing. Important steps to include here are continuing to elevate and focus on training; this is done by moving high and average achievers to a higher level of performance, next focus on the poorer achievers this is achieved through education. Poor achievers who do not wish to move forward will hit a wall, unfortunately, will not advance and may sever employment. This eliminates the weight that retards and stunts the growth of the organization. It is imperative to choose wisely the best people for positions at this

A leader is someone who inspires others and promotes integrity and hard-work ethic. A single name immediately wound into my head the moment I read the word “Leader”. Ellen McLemore, a piano director at Lafayette High School, has proved her leadership qualities an inexhaustible amount of times. As the only director of a public high school piano class in Louisiana, the LHS Tennis team sponsor, and a Quidditch Club sponsor, Mrs. McLemore demonstrates many leadership qualities. Between preparing her students with an appropriate amount of knowledge of the fine arts, Mrs. McLemore still finds time to go above and beyond, nearly every day. She in charge of hosting and planning school wide pep rallies, scheduling the annual LHS Talent Show, and

As mentioned earlier, leadership gap builds barriers determining the suitable leadership capacity between the current and the future healthcare leaders for organization. Under the circumstances, if there is a leadership gap in the healthcare system it is also anticipated that there will be an ineffective leadership development in the organization. Primarily due to lack of mastery of the required leadership competencies and lack of focus on necessary skills needed by the organization. There is also a study research survey of Chief Executive Officer’s and Human Resources executives that established and believed their leadership development programs were ineffective due the leadership gap within their organization (Molinaro and Weiss, 2005). For

The healthcare system includes multiple individuals with unique leadership skills to improve the quality of care for the patients. Leadership can be defined as identifying a goal to motivate others to act a certain way and provide support (Daly, Jackson. Rumsey, Patterson, & Davidson, 2015). Nursing leadership combines both personal traits and theories that depend on the personality of the leader (Scully, 2015). A positive outcome from nursing leadership is that it can build talent, develop future leaders, and improve patient outcomes (Korth, 2016). A concern for nursing leadership can be that engaging is failing to develop quiet leaders who may be might become unnoticed (Scully, 2015). Quiet leaders might

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." Ronald Reagan, (Haden, 2014). This Assignment will reflect the personal success of two different leaders in the healthcare sector. From different backgrounds and different beginning but with similar motivation to leave an remarkable impression on humanity.

Utilizing the “know your people, know yourself” theory of leadership proved very beneficial in the preparation for this meeting thereby reminding me that if I came in with ego it would not only convolute the facts, but detract form the performance standard not being met and also provide her with an opportunity to over react.

The need for good leaders in the healthcare industry is extremely prevalent. However, the industry does not only need good leaders, but diverse leaders as well. James Gauss, senior vice president at Witt/Kieffer’s an executive search firm that specializes in recruiting states that "it is remarkable that even though a majority of professionals see the value of different cultures in the workplace, there is still not enough happening to close the leadership gap," (Cheung-Larviee, 2012). The patient population is becoming more and more diverse and being able to have leaders that represent that population is important. An article published in the California Society of Anesthesiologists by Salisbury & Byrd states that

Lastly, an approach to address the leadership gaps is through closing the gaps within the healthcare sector. Closing the gaps will bridge and fill the deficits between the current and future leaderships. To close the leadership gap, healthcare organization and healthcare leaders will need a firm understanding of the skills and behaviors required. There is a study research that outlines the main six leadership competencies that healthcare leader and organizations should emphasize if they want to close the leadership gaps. This six leadership skills are leading employees, participative management, building and mending relationships, self-awareness, board organizational perspective, and building and leading a team (Center for Creative Leadership,

Before this class, I had a very primitive and vague definition of leadership. Not only did I define it as per my views and ideologies, but I also said that each individual has their own definition of leadership. My initial belief was that leadership does not have a clear cut definition, but there were well defined leadership traits which made an individual. I also initially believed that personal traits did not translate into leadership traits with no strong correlation. After going through the various modules this class offered, it is safe to say that I have significantly redefined leadership and underwent a strong personal assessment. This paper talks what I took back from each of the class activities, assignments and how my self-assessment compares to the perception of others.

This well educated man’s whole view on the way he’s matured since day one of college, are the ways he’s learned leadership skills. He’s realized that to lead, you must not discipline, but teach to be disciplined. In his opinion, all four years of college were necessary for him to be the best leader he can possibly be. His current main focus, is to not let his team down. And to make sure all his workers are depending on him for anything, and everything.

“Leadership is more ability than job. Moreover, it is all about determination, ability to solve problems, set direction for followers, gather them for common purpose and motivating people to achieve tasks. Furthermore, it is a charisma and the ability to reacting at the right time for a particular competitive situation” (L.Mullins, 2010, P372).