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Did you know ...
that research shows healthcare leaders should strengthen six skills?
A CCL analysis of leadership effectiveness data from more than 34,000 people working in the healthcare sector reveals six high-priority areas for leader development.
The study looked at data from Benchmarks 360-degree feedback assessments of leaders across the healthcare sector, including employees of large hospital systems, regional providers, insurance firms, state and federal healthcare agencies, pharmaceutical firms and medical device manufacturers. The leadership competencies that healthcare leaders and organizations should emphasize are:
- Leading employees. The ability to lead employees is a highly variable skill, requiring strong interpersonal savvy. Managers and executives who are effective at leading employees invest in others and are skilled directors and motivators.
- Participative management. Effective leaders involve others, build consensus and influence decisions. Managers who value participative management over-communicate, encourage others to share ideas, information, reactions and perspectives — and they listen.
- Building and mending relationships. Managers who establish and maintain solid relationships are respectful, diplomatic and fair. They are able to relate to all kinds of people and easily gain support of peers, higher management and customers.
- Self-Awareness. Effective leaders have an accurate picture of their strengths and weaknesses and the impact that their behavior has on others. A self-aware manager will admit personal mistakes and learn from them.
- Broad organizational perspective. Leaders with a broad organizational perspective have experience in multiple departments or functions and working with people who have competing interests, expertise and points of view.
- Building and leading a team. Effective team leaders select the right mix of people for the team, bringing together people who collectively have the expertise, knowledge and skills needed to complete an assigned task or ongoing work. They set clear goals, resolve conflict and motivate team members.
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