Effective Leadership in Healthcare: Styles, Techniques, and Challenges

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Introduction
Leadership has been signified as the behaviour of an individual while directing the
activities of a group towards the effective completion of shared goals and objectives. The
fundamental determinants of leadership role primarily involve influencing group activities and
contesting with developments and change. Leadership is identified as a critical component for
any organization aiming to drive developments and improvements in healthcare excellence and
patient safety (Hargett et al., 2017). Healthcare delivery systems tend to shift from volume based
towards value-based systems whereby leaders experience new and varied challenges which
necessitate better ideas, behaviours and performance. Healthcare systems are primarily
constituted of numerous professional groups, sections and expertise with intricate, complex
nonlinear interactions between them. However the level of complexities related to such systems
typically as considered as unparalleled because of certain constraints related to various disease
areas, multidirectional goals as well as multidisciplinary employee base. Within wide range of
organizations such as healthcare organizations, numerous groups comprising subcultures might
align or engage into conflicting situations with each other (Ginter, Duncan & Swayne, 2018).
Leadership thus requires efficiently benefiting from the diversity within healthcare domain as
whole and proficiently utilizing resources while arranging management processes and further
acknowledging personnel to advance towards share aims and objectives. The following paper
primarily evaluates the leadership styles and techniques in healthcare domain and shed light on
key leadership issues for healthcare services. In addition to this, it will further analyse the impact
of leadership on healthcare services.
Discussion

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An important attribute of good leader is the competence to essentially explore
individualistic and team motives in attaining transformation or perceived vision of success.
Healthcare professionals should possess an insight into leadership the techniques and
responsibilities to successfully obtain in-depth understanding of the characteristics and skills
required for underlining ‘leaders’ within the organization (Patel et al., 2016). Leadership further
has been perceived as a fundamental role within new nursing and allied healthcare professional
domain. Thus it has become no longer justifiable for healthcare professionals to avoid
distinguishing the value and implication of effective leadership in contemporary healthcare
environment (Ginter, Duncan & Swayne, 2018). There can be witnessed that wide ranging
developments essential within healthcare domain cannot be implemented using doctorial
management techniques which tend to strengthen change using ‘top down approach’ (Patel et al.,
2016). Healthcare professionals must essentially possess adequate leadership competencies in
diverse healthcare organizational settings in order to implement developments based on good
clinical decision making and pertaining to patient-centred approach to care (Shanafelt et al.,
2015).
Effective leaders in healthcares services fundamentally emphasize on continual
protected, improved quality and compassionate care to the major priority. Leadership techniques
further ensure that the voice of patients must be consistently taken into consideration at every
level such as while dealing with patients’ concerns, demands, suggestions and experiences.
Individual leadership primarily aim to offer supportive, accessible, empathic, justifiable and
empowering leadership and further encourages involvement, participation as their core
leadership strategy (Wang, Kung & Byrd, 2018). Furthermore individual leadership techniques
seek to emphasize on transparency in relation to errors, critical incidents, grievances and

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complains and tend to perceive these areas effectual for attaining comprehensive understanding
about healthcare leadership techniques (Frich, Brewster, Cherlin, & Bradley, 2015). On the other
hand, clinical leadership in teams create a strong sense of team value and identity by efficiently
ascertaining distinctive as well as inspiring vision of team’s performance and also focuses on
sound commitment towards collaborative diverse teams and diverse-boundary performance
(Shanafelt et al., 2015).
It has been observed that for centuries there has been witnessed much areas of discussion
and arguments related to the most efficient leadership approach to successfully implement
economical healthcare exposure for millions of Australians. Clinical leaders in contemporary
times experience unconstructive situations in seeking resolutions for multiple complex issues
which further exhibit propensity to impact the ability to efficiently implement cost-effective
programs, initiatives and sustain productive operations and services to support other healthcare
initiatives. The future of organisational sustainment in healthcare fundamentally requires highly
proficient leaders to strategize for any potential areas of challenges. Recently healthcare leaders
have been encountering a plethora of challenges and complexities (Wang, Kung & Byrd, 2018).
These areas of challenges include regulatory and policy changes, ethical dilemmas along with
medicinal and technological advancements. Frich, Brewster, Cherlin, & Bradley, (2015) state
that clinical leaders must efficiently comprehend a combination of challenges which could
rapidly and proficiently consume time and economic constraints for medical services. (Lin,
MacLennan, Hunt & Cox, (2015) have observed that technological progress tends to pose
additional challenges with programming, controlling as well as support issues.
At this juncture issues related to elevating rising expenses of healthcare have been taken
into consideration. As more and more people strive to live longer and lead healthier and