Healthcare Leadership Paper

a leader is to be able to influence group activities and deal with change. A challenge for healthcare leaders is that most leadership techniques were not created for the healthcare field, rather for the business environment. These business theories are applied to healthcare but the goals do not always match up. “Healthcare systems are composed of numerous professional groups, departments, and specialties with intricate, nonlinear interactions between them; the complexity of such systems is often unparalleled as a result of constraints relating to different disease areas, multidirectional goals, and multidisciplinary staff” (Abdulaziz, 2013, p 285). Healthcare leaders need to take advantage of the diversity within the organization and …show more content…
“The healthcare environment faces evolving challenge, which in turn means that the skills required for leadership are constantly changing as well. Whether it’s responding to new or modified regulations, bottom-line profitability pressures, new diagnostic or treatment techniques or integrating technological trends into system processes, what makes a person an effective system leader is the ability to balance all of these pressures alongside the needs of patients” (Becker’s Hospital Review, 2017, para 5). The most successful healthcare leaders are assertive and collaborative. They are diplomatic yet blunt. They are also very engaging. They are motivating and enthusiastic. Health care leaders need to be logical but still supportive and tolerant. They need to be structured, practice and have extensive knowledge of the health care issues. “The most effective leaders will not sacrifice relationships for results or results for relationships. They put it upon themselves to balance both as effectively as they can, regardless of their natural strengths and preferences” (Abdulaziz, 2013