Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Health care is a dynamic and diverse environment. Health care professionals and patients come from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures. It is important that health care leaders possess interpersonal and communication skills to influence and enhance the delivery of quality health care. Based upon the combination of your own personal experiences and research, respond to the following:
Why is it important for health care leaders to have and exhibit good interpersonal or people and communication skills?
Identify and discuss 3 interpersonal or people skills that you feel are required of health care leaders.
How can leaders improve their interpersonal skills?
Support your writing with at least 2 scholarly sources.
Part 2 (2-4 pgs)
Adopting a personal code of conduct can guide leaders and managers to make and prioritize decisions. You have been selected to serve in a critical leadership position in your organization. In 2-4 pages not including title page and reference page, write a personal code of conduct (sometimes called a personal code of ethics) that you would pass along to your staff. Explain how you would communicate your personal code of conduct across the organization.
Note: Use APA style to cite at least 2 scholarly sources from the last 5 years.
Part 3
Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
When people agree to enter the health care industry, they are agreeing to serve the public and their patients. In your initial post, respond to the following:
Write about the concept of servant leadership. What does it mean to you?
Choose another theory of leadership (e.g., transformational or authentic) and compare and contrast the difference of that style of leadership with servant leadership.
In your experience, discuss how servant leadership influences the delivery of quality health care.