Principles of Leadership and Management in Healthcare Organizations

Principles of Leadership and Management
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................... 3
Main Body.................................................................................................................... 3
Areas of development................................................................................................. 3
Theory...................................................................................................................... 5
Challenges................................................................................................................ 6
Critical Analysis.......................................................................................................... 8
Conclusion.................................................................................................................... 9
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Introduction
Over the years it has been evidenced that the term ‘leadership’ is a holistic approach in
every field where leaders are playing an important role to guide and motivate the team
members to perform well and achieve the predefined targets successfully. However,
leadership is all about to inspire others to perform their tasks efficiently with the setting
of some rational and practical strategies and objectives. The leader plays an important
role to direct and guide others by building some practical and futuristic visions and also
motivate his or her subordinates to accomplish their tasks effectively. A good leader
must have the ability to encourage and motivate his followers to accomplish the task
within a given time limit. In this writing, I shall elaborate my own thoughts on the present
leadership scenario and challenges that a leader has to face in their working fields. A
leader must have the capability to take the challenges and risks and I think with the
leadership quality a leader can overcome these problems. I shall mention the ways
through which leaders can overcome the challenges. The present writing is completely
based on my own reflection which will also highlight the effectiveness of those
challenges on the leaders. Characteristics that are needed to become a successful
leader with the ability to overcome all the challenges will be mentioned in this essay.
Main Body
Areas of development
Before proceeding in the further elaboration in this topic, it is important to understand
the meaning of authentic leadership. According to my perception, Authentic leaders are
those who can create a positive environment within the workplace and which further
motivate the employees to accomplish the given tasks in an organized manner. From
my learning experiences I get to know that leaders must create an open and effective
work culture within the team in the health management section to lead the followers
authentically with a positive outlook for the outcomes (Ruggles, 2014). For inheriting the
traits of authentic leadership in the organization, leaders must have the self-awareness
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quality and working skills that may help them to identify the strengths and weaknesses
of themselves. These qualities will directly reflect their leadership efficiency and by
identifying their strengths and weaknesses they can be able to enhance their self
capability to guide the subordinates. My own point of view is health care systems must
have the requirement of authentic and effective leaders who can lead the administrative
team and management team with the hope of positive outcomes and who may have the
ability to bring the changes in the operational strategies for better results (CMOE, 2019).
By maintaining the consistency in the authenticity of compassion, objectives, behavioral
goals leaders can create a good working environment within the organization which is
necessary to serve the duties proficiently. A good leader must be keen to gain
knowledge at any point in life because learning needs no age bars or time phrases. I
feel a leader can get the chance to increase his knowledge in managing the team
effectively. Good leaders are those who are sincere and hardworking and always aware
of the consequences of their actions. It is important to maintain an honest approach in
the workplace for a leader throughout his career to gain respect and positive outcomes
from all his followers and team members. This is also a basic requirement to obscure
the obstacles within the workplace (Now.leadercast.com, 2019).
It is the truth that the aspects of leadership can be different with the change in fields.
For instance, leaders of the sales management team may have to follow the different
perspectives to achieve the organizational goals than those leaders who are working in
the healthcare sectors. The main aim of the leaders in the health care sector is to
achieve success by providing the best services to the patients and their family members
to build a reputation in the community for their prospects. A good leader must have the
ability to set the direction and build an inspiring vision to do the appropriate things by
helping himself and also others. Effective leadership is all about mapping the things and
aspects to win the targets with the help of a dynamic, inspiring and motivating mindset
of the leaders and the team members (Sonnino, 2016).
I have summarized the characteristic traits that a leader needs to acquire for becoming
a good and effective are ability to create the future vision and goals, the sense to
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