PUBH6004: Leadership, Change & Australian Health Framework Report

This report analyzes leadership and effecting change in public health, focusing on a scenario involving a public health leader within the Australian context, utilizing the Australian health leadership framework. It includes a self-assessment using a leadership tool to evaluate personal leadership strengths and weaknesses. The report further reflects on personal leadership styles and their applicability to current public health scenarios. It covers the challenges faced by public health leaders, such as balancing disease burdens, addressing financial pressures, and ensuring quality and safety in healthcare, especially during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis also incorporates the importance of collaboration, communication, and adapting leadership styles to effectively address public health issues and promote positive change.

LEADERSHIP AND
EFFECTING CHANGE IN
PUBLIC HEALTH

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
PART 1.......................................................................................................................................3
Analyzing scenario of public health leader, presented in the Australian public health context using
Australian health leadership framework............................................................................................3
PART 2.......................................................................................................................................5
Undertaking a self-assessment using leadership self-assessment tool................................................5
PART 3.......................................................................................................................................7
Reflecting on leadership style, its strengths, and apply them to current scenarios.............................7
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is defined as set of effective skills and competencies, which driven the
attention a leader towards solving critical issues or challenges in effective manner. It is one of
those internal factors that make any change possible at workplace within public health care
sector. Leadership is also considering as key capability of an individual person, which make
them capable to influence and encourage staffs to be productive than ever. The current
assignment will be based on specific scenario, based on public health leader and their
leadership styles. Furthermore, the study will explain self-assessment by usage of effective
tool and will also define reflection based on own leadership style, its power and application
of these things into scenario.
MAIN BODY
PART 1
Analyzing scenario of public health leader, presented in the Australian public health
context using Australian health leadership framework
A public health care leader is one of those responsible individuals how effort to take
care of population or individual person health and well-being via health promotion as well as
prevention (Dhanani & Franz, 2020). They may play vital role in well-fare of human and to
enhance their living standard by providing satisfactory health care services to population
(Best& et.al., 2020). Within Australian public health care centers, they contribute to make
everyone life easier and happier, in term of recovering their health issues. They may always
take initiative to engage with others to affect health and well-fare as well as quality of new
born child birth care, and end of life. They may put direct impact on people, their health
problems, satisfaction level, trust, commitment and organizational culture, which lead to
enhance people satisfactory extent, even better than other leaders. Along with above

initiatives they may do more in varied terms. For example, public health leader by using their
effective and useful leadership styles efforts to balance increase burden of several diseases
with development of primary healthcare. They always take action to help other individuals. It
can be analyzed that public health leader support to recognize complexities of human being
related to their well-being (Yeoh& et.al. 2021). They assist to enhance quality of life
measures and clinical success indicators.
Along with above, they may play more roles such as engages others, leads self, drives
people towards be innovative and also support to shape overall systems. It can be said that
effective public health leader attempt to put direct or indirect impact on patients care quality
and always take action to support them in every situation regarding health care. A public
health leader while playing role in health care centers, may face several challenges which
drive their attention toward be creative. They assist to improve health results for Torres Strait
and Aboriginal islander individuals as well as other teams. Leaders with effective leadership
approach address financial pressure that influence nature, timing and length of well-being
(Russell& et.al., 2020). Public health leader in Australian health care organizations face
challenge to assure a continuous concentration on quality and safety at all levels of health
care. It is quite challenging for them to ensure everything about their work and duties, which
is important for them to make assure in effective manner.
Continues concentration may give them chance to improve health care procedures and
make it effective. They also effort to enhance quality at each extent, which is challenging and
risky as well. These types of leaders may conduct practice of mobilizing individuals,
companies and communities to successfully deal tough public health issues (Binns, 2021).
The main competency of health leader is their leadership forms, according to that they may
perform set of duties and accountabilities. Along with above roles, they may encourage and
inspire individual patient to achieve set aim and objectives by conducting varied attempts.
Still facing issues, public health leader may attempt to build strong and trustworthy bond with
patients, they also take initiative to communicate a vision at workplace in clear way.
Leaders in public health care sector with suitable leadership styles take initiative to
teaches further modifications in order to offer the best deal with key problems that have put
long lasting impact on public health at national, local and international extents. These issues
may include infectious diseases, famine, bioterrorism, and substance abuse. By using
effective leadership style, public health leaders within the world of health care may attempt to

be flexible because emergency situations may need their hard work and proper concentration
upon patient health. They may overcome any challenge by using their interpersonal and
transferable skills, in effective manner, without making any major mistakes that may directly
put negative impact on patients and their career success. Public healthcare leader by using
situationally transferable and other types of leadership styles me may contribute to
communicate with people and implement new tactics which solve their health issues.Instead
of one or two or more theyfaces multiple challenges for example building respect and
effective cooperation among different professional and organizational approaches that are
operating and using within healthcare systems.By using Australian healthcare leadership
framework, it can be analyzed that the role of public health leader is a quite challenging
profession in the world because they deal with critical situations (Marshall, Dunstan&Bartik,
2020). During COVID-19 the role of these individuals deal with many issues by overcoming
that they have to walk in effective manner and be creative all the time.
PART 2
Undertaking a self-assessment using leadership self-assessment tool
Self assessment is the effective process which allows looking in oneself in order to know the
factors which are essential for one’s identity. It enables to know the strength and weakness so
that person can proceed to make changes accordingly for their betterment. Leadership self
assessment tool is the set of reflective questions that is asked to look into insight leadership
style to find the strength and chance for development (Bekemeier, Park & Whitman,
(2019)).
Achieving outcomes:
Range of digital technological medical equipment are increasing as Robotics, VR/AR, AI, to
evaluate this will be more beneficial in health care system. These tools will help to define the
results for the patients. It enables to look into the issues or to make proper plan to deal with it.
For being accountable for results it enables to help others as well to follow this for their better
job.
Growing and leading self:
This factor gives the analysis as the reason behind leading also enable to know the factors as
what making us as successful and allow to use the knowledge and skills for the personal

development. Self awareness enables the person to look into themselves as to know what
oneself behaviour and attitude affecting others therefore in such case it is important to do self
analysis which allows making changes if it’s needed. Self assessment always allows knowing
the strength and weakness so one can proceed to learn new things to develop the
opportunities for the better future (Kmietowicz and et.al (2019)). Therefore the strength
allows the person to remain calm in under pressure situation or to work collaborate in order to
grow personally or professionally.
Interacting with people to develop relationship:
Leadership is all about to carry out any task effectively by working together as a team.
Interaction with people also enables to develop the knowledge about things. Interaction with
people allow enhancing the working capacity as to interact with the nurses, patients enable to
give better services so that fast recovery can be made. Good leadership allow to work with
team or to motivate other member by communicating with them. As a good leader it is
responsibility to bring people together to share their views otherwise it will be difficult to
achieve goals.
Linking and collaborating over boundaries:
This factor describes to collaborate or develop the partnership to implement the improvement
in work place. It enables the person to work with others as well whenever the situation arises
so that it will develop good relationship. Therefore it is important to mobilise with other
people so that it will be easy to achieve the desired goals. Dealing with cross cultural
stakeholder also gives good suggestion to make changes for the betterment. For the leader it
is responsibility to bring all together to share opinions and views so that new ideas can be
generated for the betterment.
Transforming the system:
This leadership tool enables to point out specific action so that changes can be made to
provide better services to the patient for sustainable growth. Therefore for that purpose use of
new equipment can be beneficial to provide better or rapid health services. Leader’s duty is to
arrange all the system’s people together to resolve any issues, also to appreciate the opinion

of other so that good solution come out, also to motivate other so effective work can be
carried out to achieve the objectives (Bricknell and et.al (2020)).
PART 3
Reflecting on leadership style, its strengths, and apply them to current scenarios
Leadership style is very important it associated with the persistence, consistency, problem
solving skills which makes a person a successful leader. As for me it is important to know
about the strength and weakness which is done by the self reflection it enables to learn from
the experiences also enables to make changes for development. I possess good skill as I
always proceed to organise my work so it helps me to carry out any complex task effectively.
As for me as a public health leader it is important to bring all the societal people together first
I need to prepare a effective strategy so that it is well understood by the community people.
For me as a health leader it is necessary to enable my team to work together as for that I need
to encourage or praise them for their effort. It makes the team member to feel positive and
allow them to effectively deal with the people to resolve their problem (Couch and et.al
(2018)). As per the scenario based on my skills I also work collaborate with the people to
resolve the issue which is seen between 5 countries as I also proceed to bring all the leaders
together by communicating with them or with good negotiation skills so that it enables them
to attend the meeting to find the solution. I used to aware people about the disease or to allow
my team to interact with people to make them aware about the disease also to give them a
sort of precautions. I also initiate to work with local community leader so that they help to
measure the community condition. Therefore in such condition it is important for me to
prepare a effective plan which makes the stakeholders to take part into project or they can
raise the fund for the implementation of the project.
Action plan always help to assess the insight view so that improvement can be made for good
outcomes.
Objective/ goals to
be achieved
Activities required Resources to
complete activities
Time frame
To develop a good For the Books, curricular 3 month

communication skills communication skills
it is important to
communicate or
interact with others.
activities, debates,
social work can be a
good resources to
enhance this skills.
To possess a
effective leadership
skills
Indulging with group
of people, work in
team, listen to others,
cross cultural
activities can help to
shape the person as a
good leader.
Volunteering work,
work on same project
where every person
shared same goals.
4 month
Time management
skill
As for the better
health care leader it
is important to
manage the time so
that other will also
come on time. The
activities for this to
prioritize the work
according to its
importance so that it
will complete on
time.
To consider time
audit, proceed to
write on to do list, or
to use time counter to
know which task is
taking most of the
time (Palumbo,
(2017)).
2 month
Problem solving skill Playing games as
puzzles, Sudoku,
reverse pyramid are
the best activities to
develop this skill.
Web sources, books,
articles are the best
resources to improve
this as for the public
health leader it is
mandatory to posses
this skills to resolve
any problem to reach
to conclusion
4 month

CONCLUSION
On the basis of above discussion, it has been concluded that by using effective
leadership style, a leader within public health care industry has resolved critical issues and
major challenges. They have provided several effective and satisfactory services to individual
person, according to their needs and expectations. Furthermore, from above analysis, it has
been identified by using self-assessment tool it is quite easy to determined key strengths,
weaknesses and effective opportunities for better growth.
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