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INTRODUCTION
Healthcare providers are functioning on a landscape that
seems to be reshaped on a daily basis. While attempting
to adjust to the explosion of healthcare reform, new
regulations, performance standards, payment structures,
ever-changing technology, and a myriad of other
requirements, there remains the need to provide care to
patients—and to do it perfectly every time.
With an aging demographic in leadership positions in
healthcare, organizations are beginning to experience the
shortage of leadership talent they need to set direction,
create alignment and gain commitment among
employees, partners and stakeholders as they seek to
provide that safe, high quality patient care.
Just when they are most needed, nurses and nurse
leaders specifically are leaving the profession at a time
when their experience and leadership skills are most
sorely needed. In fact, 75% of current nurse leaders plan
to retire by 2020.
As the landscape changes shape, those changes require a
greater need for leadership at the very time there is, here
is significant attrition in the ranks of clinical leaders.
Tomorrow’s leaders in healthcare will not appear out of
thin air, out of some unseen deep pool of talent ready
to surface when needed. There is no “just-in-time
delivery” of new leadership talent. Hospitals will not be
suddenly blessed by an influx of professionals who ride
in over the horizon with the intrinsic talent to motivate,
manage and inspire. Tomorrow’s leaders must be
developed today. Nor, will they come from other
industries. They will be healthcare people from within
healthcare organizations who understand the challenges,
frustrations and rewards firsthand.
A hospital’s culture is its personality and its leaders
embody that personality. High-potential employees who
are already a part of the organization know the culture
and understand how they fit with the culture. Developing
those leaders now is imperative and will lead to:
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Proactive Leadership:
In a reactive healthcare climate skilled, proactive
leaders will guide employees through the effects of
daily change making sense of how their work is
measured and managed.
Confident Modeling:
Amid the pressure on employees to get it right 100% of
the time with no room for error, confident leaders
convey that they have been there, done that and that this
challenge can be met together.
Individulized Preparation:
Tomorrow’s leader will have been encouraged to
develop themselves in areas of their innate interests and
abilities, as well as in time-tested core leadership
principles. People gravitate toward leaders that effectively
teach others to trust their instincts to do the right things
in the right way.
Wise Investment:
Especially in a climate of constrained hospital budgets,
investments must be made wisely. There is no investment
more important than the development of leadership
talent that will sustain the organization of the future.
Penny-wise, pound-foolish is not the formula for success
in leadership development.
Resourcefulness:
If today’s mantra today in healthcare is “do more with
less,” tomorrow’s will likely be “do even more with less.”
A skilled leader is one who has lived the challenges,
knows how to manage in a reductive environment, and
can still effectively motivate and engage employees at all
levels of the organization.
The following articles will help you on your journey to
developing tomorrow’s healthcare leaders.