Leadership Flashcards

Flashcards about Leadership

Benefits of Teamwork

Well functioning teams enhance communication, coordination, and continuity of care; share information; streamline work processes; make quicker decisions; increase patient satisfaction, customer service, and quality of care; and enhance cost-effectiveness.

Benefits of Teamwork for Workers

Increased job challenge, more input, seeing the 'big picture,' rising self-esteem, job satisfaction, job security, more marketable workers, and enhanced opportunities for advancement.

Teamwork in Healthcare

The coordinated efforts of practitioners from many disciplines provide the best outcomes for the sickest patients. Health professionals must work interdependently with mutual respect, trust, support, and appreciation.

Leaders

Leaders combine visions of excellence with the ability to inspire others, promoting positive changes.

Physician's role in leadership

Historically the leader and primary decision-maker, but now that role is shared.

Leadership

The ability or skill to encourage people to work together and do their best to achieve common goals.

Leader

An individual who leads or guides others, or who is in charge or in command of others.

Components of Leadership

Leadership is a process; involves influence; occurs in groups; involves common goals.

Ethical Leadership

Setting and pursuing ethical goals and influencing others in an ethical manner, or influencing the activities of a group toward goal achievement in a socially responsible way.

Common Characteristics of Leaders

Respects rights, dignity, opinions, & abilities of others, understands principles of democracy, works with group & guides them towards a goal, understands strengths & weaknesses, displays self-confidence & willingness to take a stand, and communicates effectively.

Common Characteristics of Leaders part 2

Shows self-initiative, willingness to work, & completes tasks, shows optimism, is open-minded, & can compromise, praises others & gives credit to others, is dedicated to meeting high standards.

Great Man Theory

An early, outdated theory that suggests leaders are born, not made, shaping history through their personal attributes, such as charisma, intelligence and wisdom.

Trait Theory

States that some people possess certain traits that cannot be learnt (e.g. adaptability, ambitiousness, assertiveness) and are particularly suited to leadership in a number of different situations.

Behavioral Theory

Focuses on what leaders actually do, differentiating successful leadership styles and behaviors from those that are ineffective.

Contingency Theory

Effective leaders develop different ways of working with their followers depending on the situation and the needs and attributes of followers.

Transactional Leadership

The leader motivates by reward or punishment.

Transformational Leadership

People will follow a leader who inspires them through vision and passion.