Leadership and Lifelong Learning

One of the defining characteristics of a profession is the requirement to remain current with advances in the field. The multiple professional organizations that reflect healthcare all have in common a focus on self-directed career development. This is especially important in a healthcare employment market where professionals will likely work for several organizations and possibly several types of jobs (e.g., management, clinical, and technical) during their careers.

Relying on your employer alone to offer the types of learning opportunities that are necessary to continue to adapt to a changing healthcare system may be insufficient. The leadership and lifelong learning study focuses on development or refinement of the knowledge, skills, and abilities inherent in successful leadership, underscored by a continuous process of self-motivated education and development.

This exercise also marks a shift from the professor providing source documents to you conducting your own research. Some resources are offered in the Suggest Readings section of the Schedule (below), but you are encouraged to explore.

• Reflective Journal

One of objectives is to help you to define who you are as a leader and to explore how you lead. You will reflect on previous course content, suggested readings, and your independent research on different leadership perspectives as they relate to you as a leader. In designated weeks, you will share your reflections in an online journal entry. This is an opportunity for you to think deeply about your vision of leadership and to foster the inquisitiveness that personifies highly successful leaders, as well as to discuss how your vision is influenced by your research, to consider how you might change your behavior within your organization as a result of what you are learning, and to identify gaps in your own knowledge and behaviors with regard to who you hope to become as a leader and how you hope to lead.

Reflection prompts will be provided in select Discussion folders. However, these are provided here to guide your thinking rather than limit your thinking; so feel free to introduce any additional aspects that influence your thinking about leadership. Please answer the questions listed in a APA standard essay format – 12 point, Time New Roman font – 2 pages. Please use examples that pertains to healthcare organizational leadership

a. Reflection Questions

Reflect on the notion of leadership. What does leadership mean to you? How do you define leadership? Provide an example that details how you view leadership. Please use 2 of the suggestd reading and one of your own.

Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership (6th ed.). Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE.

AHA (2004). Strategies for Leadership Does your hospital reflect the community it serves? Retrieved from http://www.aha.org/content/00-10/diversitytool.pdf

Al-Sawai, A. (2013, July); Leadership of Healthcare Professionals: Where Do We Stand? Oman Medical Journal. 28(4): 285–287. doi: 10.5001/omj.2013.79. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC37252…

B.E. Smith (n.d.). Articles discussing the latest industry information, challenges and trends. Retrieved from https://www.besmith.com/thought-leadership/article…

Changing Minds (n.d.). Management vs. Leadership. Retrieved from http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/articles/manager_leader.htm.

Kocolowski, M.D. (2010). Shared Leadership: Is it Time for a Change? Emerging Leadership Journeys, Vol. 3 Iss. 1, pp. 22-32.

Komives, S, Lucas, N., & McMahon, T. (1998). The Relational Model. Exploring Leadership for College Students What Want to Make A Difference. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (68-72). Retrieved from https://www.uta.edu/leadership/_downloads/The-Rela…

Leggat, S.G. (2007). Effective healthcare teams require effective team members: defining teamwork competencies. BMC Health Services Research, 7(17), DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-17. Retrieved from http://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6963-7-17.

Lindsey, J.S., & Mitchell, J.W. (2012). Tomorrow’s Top Healthcare Leaders: 5 Qualities of the Healthcare Leader of the Future. Becker’s Hospital Review. Retrieved from http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/tomorrows-top-healthcare-leaders-5-qualities-of-the-healthcare-leader-of-the-future.html.

Lippa, J., Claude Pinnock, C., & Aisenbrey., J. (2015, December 3). What Health Care Leaders Need to Do to Improve Value for Patients. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-health-care-leaders-need-to-do-to-improve-value-for-patients.

Llopis, G. (2014, June 7). Healthcare Industry Must Reinvent Itself Using Leadership Techniques from Business World. Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/glennllopis/2014/06/07/healthcare-industry-must-reinvent-itself-using-leadership-techniques-from-business-world/#4f03fa493526.

MindTools (2016). Fiedler’s Contingency Model: Matching Leadership Style to a Situation. Retrieved from https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/fiedler.ht…

Morrison, N. (2013, December 21). Two Heads Are Better Than One: A Model Of Shared Leadership. Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorrison/2013/12/2…

Murray, A., (n.d.). What is the Difference Between Management and Leadership? Wall Street Journal. Adapted from The Wall Street Journal Guide to Management by Alan Murray, published by Harper Business). Retrieved from http://guides.wsj.com/management/developing-a-leadership-style/what-is-the-difference-between-management-and-leadership/.

National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs (2006). The Relational Leadership Model. Retrieved from https://nclp.umd.edu/include/pdfs/Exploring%20Leadership%20II%20-%20Chapter%203.pdf

Nelson, J. (2016). Do What’s Right, Not What’s Easy. Retrieved from http://www.coachjudynelson.com/do-whats-right-not-whats-easy/.

Peretomode. O. (2012, Sep-Oct). Situational and Contingency Theories Of Leadership: Are They The Same? IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM). Volume 4, Issue 3 PP 13-17

Rice, T.R. (2016, February 13). Changing nature of healthcare leadership demands new vision, empowerment culture. Modern Healthcare. Retrieved from http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160213/MAGAZINE/302139978.

Transformational Leadership(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.langston.edu/sites/default/files/basic-content-files/TransformationalLeadership.pdf.

Uhl-Bien, M. (2006). Relational Leadership Theory: Exploring the social processes of leadership and organizing. Leadership Institute Faculty Publications.

Uhl-Bien, M. (2012). Complexity Leadership in Healthcare Organizations. Leadership Institute Faculty Publications. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska

Uhl-Bien, M., Marion, R., & McKelvey, B. (2007). Complexity Leadership Theory: Shifting leadership from the industrial age to the knowledge era. Leadership Institute Faculty Publications. Paper 18. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/leadershipfacpub/18