Healthcare Leadership Competencies: A Comprehensive Report

This report discusses essential healthcare leadership competencies, synthesizing best practices and comparing leadership approaches from various nations. It emphasizes the importance of cultural sensitivity in designing and implementing public health policies, highlighting the need for leaders to address diverse backgrounds and cultural values. The report outlines strategies for identifying stakeholders, building coalitions, and implementing robust stakeholder management plans, including the use of RACI matrices. It also explores the application of administrative and health information technology for developing process and performance improvement plans, as well as the organization, structure, and function of healthcare, public health, and regulatory systems. The report underscores the significance of quality improvement plans in healthcare settings, the role of health information technology in enhancing efficiency and patient outcomes, and the impact of institutional arrangements in improving public health services. The coordination between the World Health Organization and International Health Regulations in shaping global public health regulatory systems is also discussed.

Running head: HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP
Discussion on Healthcare Leadership Competencies
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1. Leaders are required to present the highest standards of clinical practice for their
followers to learn from and acquire special skill set to showcase better leadership
style. Few qualities that are determine the standards of leadership are communication,
persuasive, strategic, innovative, management focus, technical and structuring. The
leadership approaches from nations such as France, Netherland and UK that have
been highlighted by the respective health care systems of the nations are coaching
style, delegative style and pacesetting style. Other key leadership approaches include
autocratic, which is the ultimate task-oriented style of leadership associated with the
words of ‘command’ and ‘control’.
2. Cultural sensitivity is one of the key aspect to determine the efficacy of one’s
leadership style. Leaders acquiring cultural competency are better at addressing
stakeholders from various backgrounds and respecting their culture maintains a
healthy relationship. Acquiring cultural competency is key to successful
implementation of the public health policies, and requires an open and diplomatic
mindset to acquire such skill. The culturally competent leaders are able to ensure
highest standards of public health services delivery by effectively addressing the
cultural, social and linguistic needs of the clients and other stakeholders.
3. Identification of the stakeholders and having greater understanding of their primary
needs helps to gain their support and allow them to be an integral part of the overall
development. Coalition of the major stakeholders is crucial for standard community
health service delivery and stakeholder engagement forms an important aspect of it.
The key highlight of stakeholder engagement process is to allow the people, who will
be affected by the decisions, to be a part of the decision making process. RACI matrix
helps to assign the responsibilities to the concerned stakeholders. A robust stakeholder

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management plan comprises of activities such as identification of stakeholders,
assessing interest, developing communication management programs and engaging
the stakeholders.
4. Quality improvement plans are vital in ensuring systematic changes to address the
quality issues in the healthcare settings. The key components of this plan are
identification of problem, goal development, presenting aims and objectives and
evaluating the measures undertaken. Better implementation of the health information
technology in clinical settings can boost efficiency, improve communication and avert
medical errors, all of which redirects to positive patient outcome. However,
administration plays a crucial role in implementation of such new technologies and
innovations in healthcare setting.
5. Institutional arrangement in public health services can significantly improve the latter
by influencing the public health functions and delivering the essentials, driven by the
fundamentals of transformation, policies and visions. The federal government takes
the uppermost position ad determines the further sub-levels in the organisational
structure of public health services. Coordinated role is played by the World Health
Organisation and the International Health Regulations to determine the international
public health regulatory systems in the world. Such coalition aims at building greater
capacity to respond, report and detect the public health events all across the globe.