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Leadership Collaboration and Pitfalls
Michael Owens
American InterContinental University
8/15/2024
Abstract
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This is the segment of the Comprehensive Framework
Report that examines different aspects of Leadership
Collaboration and Pitfalls. Collaborative leadership has
been utilized to build cohesion between leadership and
staff members. Healthcare is a massive industry that
caters to all patients. Staff members begin as strangers
to each other. Therefore, the department may need
professionals to collaborate when performing certain
services. The characteristics and strategies of a
collaborative leadership figure would provide ice-breaking
chemistry between colleagues. Having the organization’s
mission statement as a catalyst would establish power in
the department. This will grant the professionals’ role
clarity on their job specifics. This also grants the
professionals the ability to overcome adversity when it
appears.
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There are pitfalls when trying to establish collaborative
leadership. There’s always turbulence first when rising to
new heights. Overcoming the pitfalls will display the
professionalism that we know our staff members have.
Influencing collaboration in healthcare delivery services
will establish role teams. We will also visit the significance
of executive approaches, problem solving techniques,
self-managing approaches, cross-functionalities, and
virtual team managing and communicating healthcare
service delivery.
Bringing clarity to how maintain effective leadership.
Benefiting our patients by providing healthcare services
as a team. Quality care is the goal with every encounter.
The impact of information overload can affect the flow of
services. The term overload should awaken us all to the
statement…sometimes we can’t do everything by
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ourselves. Collaboration contributes to the effectiveness
of delivering patient care.
Collaborative Leadership
What I view collaborative leadership as is a very effective
approach of making puzzle pieces fit together. Our
healthcare organization is a diverse environment that
provides quality healthcare services for our diverse
patients. All professionals start as strangers to their
colleagues. Solely depending on their professionalism to
be the bridge of communication. Collaborative leadership
characteristics vary. The rewarding transactional
approach. Though they vary, they are effective.
For instance. Say that our rehabilitation department has
limited physical therapists on this date. If a therapist
needs help assisting a patient, they should be
comfortable to request assistance. The collaborative
strategy of the lead therapist taught the therapists to
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communicate throughout each session. This strategy
allows the therapists to have direct contact with each
other. Each therapist would also have visual contact with
each other.
Decreasing the chances of safety hazards for patients
increases the possibility of positive outcomes from
healthcare services. The effectiveness of the collaborative
efforts could cause rewards from the leadership and
management. Meaning that was clarity on power and role
clarity in collaboration.
Performance work processes—processes used to
systematically pursue ever-higher levels of overall
organizational and individual performance—to increase
patient safety (Baldrige Performance Excellence Program
2019).
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Harrison, J. P. (2020). Essentials of Strategic Planning in
Healthcare (3rd ed.). Health Administration Press.
https://aiu.vitalsource.com/books/9781640552029
Pitfalls in Collaborative Leadership
Overcoming the adversity of the pitfalls in collaborative
leadership takes place when the leadership is
strategically prepared. Personal differences may arise
when decisions are made which everyone does not agree
on. Roles and responsibilities that teams play in
influencing collaborative efforts in healthcare delivery are
instrumental in the success of the organization.
Therefore, working with colleagues should only feel
foreign in the early stages of collaboration. Which could
cause a few cohesion problems. Collaborative leadership
would display the code of ethics to establish the level of
professionalism.
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The mission statement of the organization should be
discussed and displayed within the department to grant
clarity of what is expected. For example. A physically
demanding job that requires heavy lifting may require
employees to work at a certain pace. Though everyone
may not be able to work as fast as the veteran
employees, collaboration and safety would be stressed.
Wanting employees to get acclimated to working at a
productive pace, you must look at safety first.
Collaborative leadership’s performance and professional
character would reflect the organization’s mission.
The strategic plan must be communicated both in writing
and verbally. The overall purpose should be to provide
clarity and alignment with the organization’s mission,
engage employees in personal commitment to the plan,
and reinforce the goals to achieve the outcomes (Dean
2015).
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Harrison, J. P. (2020). Essentials of Strategic Planning in
Healthcare (3rd ed.). Health Administration Press.
https://aiu.vitalsource.com/books/9781640552029
Managing and Communicating Healthcare Services
Healthcare requires professionals to be flexible. Rather
than commit to a traditional outlook or approach on
healthcare delivery. Therefore, diminishing the healthcare
organization’s potential of growth. Executive decisions
are made to ensure that things are going to work out in
the long run for the organization. Change is consistent
with time, but the change must be consistent with time.
Team leads planning too early or too late could cause a
department to plummet. For example. Consistent and
inconsistent administrative decisions to change strategies
and approaches could be detrimental to the organization.
Timing is everything. If your organization consistently
makes unnecessary healthcare decisions, it would soon
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be detrimental to the organization’s future. As well as
necessary decisions that are made too late has the same
affect. Understaffing a healthcare department could
strain the existing staff members. In which case would
affect their healthcare service delivery. Another pitfall.
An executive must know when a transformational
approach is needed and when it could lead to pushbacks.
Although followers with similar values of
conscientiousness and competence are more likely to
respond positively to transformational approaches, the
overuse of such approaches may sometimes do more
harm than good (Lin, Scott, and Matta 2019)
Harrison, J. P. (2020). Essentials of Strategic Planning in
Healthcare (3rd ed.). Health Administration Press.
https://aiuvitalsource.com/books/9781640552029
Problem solving strategies that collaborate with
stakeholders can lead to a successful solution. Formal
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communication, effective communication both exemplify
listening skills without interrupting. For example,
department meetings. Being open to the stakeholders’
opinions about decision making in an organization could
benefit forward progression. And hinder forward
progression. Cross- functional teams are in close contact
with each other. Virtual teams are digitally connected to
each other. Communicating patient health information
must be communicated effectively and efficiently. All staff
members of each team should have the abilities to
manage patient health information, update, and pass it
on to the necessary healthcare professionals.
Collaborative efforts are to assist the professional not
complete tasks for the professional.
Healthcare is recognized today as a complex business
that requires leaders who can navigate the complexity.
Because healthcare is dynamic (some would say
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turbulent), the traditional mindset of standardization,
predictability, and cause-and-effect problem solving must
be supplemented with methods for uncertainty
(Greenhalgh and Papoutsi 2018).
Harrison, J. P. (2020). Essentials of Strategic Planning in
Healthcare (3rd ed.). Health Administration Press.
https://aiu.vitalsource.com/books/9781640552029
Maintaining Effective Leadership
Maintaining effective leadership can be established by
displaying consistent professional behaviors.
Management and leadership must display the
professionalism they need staff members to obtain. Most
new hires to an organization will have similar behaviors of
the leadership that initially trained them on arrival. Our
professionals must understand that patients are human
beings. We must deliver quality care to each patient.
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Internal rewards will be provided to departments that
have done a significant job treating patients,
professionally training new staff members, and
consistently operating as a team throughout the
organizational adjustment process. The resilience of a
department can have a direct effect on the services
provided for patients. information overload can drive one
or more employees over edge. We have combined the
cross-functional and virtual teamwork approach.
For example, the rehabilitation staff. Being within eye
contact with another practitioner signifies the cross-
functional approach. Though, the practitioner must focus
on their objective. In addition to respecting the principles
of HIPAA regulation of patient privacy. Collaboration
contributes to the effectiveness of patient care service
delivery. Maintaining effective leadership is leading by
example. This grants the stakeholders and patients the
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opportunity to visually see the mission statement of the
organization in their professionalism. Valuing both the
stakeholders and patients. Health…care.
Transformational leaders need to maintain a delicate
balance between using and relaxing their authority.
Harrison, J. P. (2020). Essentials of Strategic Planning in
Healthcare (3rd ed.). Health Administration Press.
https://aiu.vitalsource.com/books/9781640552029
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References
Harrison, J. P. (2020). Essentials of Strategic Planning in
Healthcare (3rd ed.). Health Administration Press.
https://aiu.vitalsource.com/books/9781640552029
Harrison, J. P. (2020). Essentials of Strategic Planning in
Healthcare (3rd ed.). Health Administration Press.
https://aiu.vitalsource.com/books/9781640552029
Harrison, J. P. (2020). Essentials of Strategic Planning in
Healthcare (3rd ed.). Health Administration Press.
https://aiu.vitalsource.com/books/9781640552029
Harrison, J. P. (2020). Essentials of Strategic Planning in
Healthcare (3rd ed.). Health Administration Press.
https://aiu.vitalsource.com/books/9781640552029
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Harrison, J. P. (2020). Essentials of Strategic Planning in
Healthcare (3rd ed.). Health Administration Press.
https://aiu.vitalsource.com/books/9781640552029
