Assignment
Effective leaders have many roles within their job as they work to address various needs of their team and organization. Some aspects of their job include supporting change, collaborating, and negotiating. These aspects involve working with others to achieve goals. Specifically, leaders get better results if they facilitate change rather than dictating it, because facilitating change prompts buy-in and better learning.
Assessment Prep Imagine your hospital has recently merged with a group of medical centers. You are a high-level executive, and your department has been asked to develop a strategy to integrate the cultures of your hospital and the medical centers. Success with this effort must also translate into the optimization of patient care, quality, safety, cost of services, and access to care.
Research best practices and devise approaches to address potential issues and pushback.
Assessment Deliverable Write a 700- to 1,050-word strategy report in which you:
Describe the personnel groups affected by the merger. Explain the challenges in merging the cultures of the hospital and the medical centers. Consider the cultures of both organizations coming together. Propose strategies or solutions to address those challenges. Explain which departments or positions the merger team should request assistance from and collaborate with to facilitate a successful merger. Identify which person from the merger team should be the primary communicator on the team’s behalf to the whole organization. Design the modes of communication the merger team will use to convey these strategies to the clinical and medical staff. Outline the information that should be included in the communication. Explain the negotiation strategies that may be useful to obtain decision buy-in. Cite and reference reputable sources to support your assessment. Examples could include trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality.
Format your citations and references according to APA guidelines.
Submit your assessment in a Microsoft Word document.