Effective Leadership Traits in Health IT Management

Explore the common traits of effective leaders in the healthcare IT field, along with the necessary skills and responsibilities they hold. Understand the challenges faced in the evolving healthcare landscape and the crucial role HIT leaders play in driving innovation and success within organizations.

• Leadership Traits
• Health IT Management
• Effective Leaders
• Healthcare Landscape
• Technological Innovation

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1. Planning, Management and Leadership for Health IT Effective and Ineffective Leaders Lecture a Effective Leaders This material (Comp 18 Unit 4) was developed by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number 90WT0007. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org

2. Effective and Ineffective Leaders Learning Objectives Describe the common traits of effective leaders Describe skills needed in order for HIT leaders to be effective Describe the common traits of ineffective leaders Distinguish between de-motivating and motivating leaders Discuss ineffective leadership s role on stress in the work environment 2

3. Effective Leaders Must move beyond managing the status quo 3

4. Effective Leaders 2 Must face needs of the healthcare organization of the future Rapid proliferation of IT Genetic data Pay for performance? Must have visionary and tactical skills 4

5. Effective Leaders Common Traits Emotional stability, enthusiasm, conscientiousness, tough mindedness, self- assurance, compulsiveness, high energy, intuitiveness, maturity, team orientation, empathy, charisma, emotional intelligence, savvy, inspirational, responsible, trustworthy 5

6. Leadership Challenge: Changes in Healthcare Landscape 6

7. Leadership Challenge: Changes in Healthcare Landscape 2 7

8. Leadership Challenge: Changes in Healthcare Landscape 3 8

9. Evolving Role of Healthcare IT Leaders Under the leadership of the techno-geek Technology trumped workflow Misalignment of clinical and technical staff Current reality Emulate organizational leaders Understand the business of healthcare 9

10. Evolving Role of Healthcare IT Leaders 2 20% technology 80% decisions, emotions, politics, territory, planning and influence surrounding the technology Must understand the business to be effective! 10

11. Effective Healthcare IT Leaders Soft Skills Change Management Skills Persuasiveness Listening Skills 11

12. Effective Healthcare IT Leaders 2 Technical Depth Analysis Understanding of data-driven decisions 12

13. Challenges of the New Leader Understand reality People won t always want to be led by you Source: (McCarthy, 2009.) 13

14. Challenges of the New Leader 2 Nobody will spell out the future for you The most important part of your job is probably not in your job description 14

15. Challenges of the New Leader 3 Remember parable The Scorpion and the Frog People often cannot change what s in their nature Source: (Wikipedia.) 15

16. Effective and Ineffective Leaders Summary Lecture a Being an effective leader requires Energy Observation Study 16

17. Effective and Ineffective Leaders References Lecture a References McCarthy D. The top ten challenges of the new leader. Great Leadership Blog [Internet]. 2009 Apr 1 [April 1, 2009]. Available from: www.greatleadershipbydan.com. Wikipedia. The scorpion and the frog [Internet]. Available from: en.wikipedia.org Images Slides 9, 10: Clip Art. Available from: Microsoft clips online. Used with permission from Microsoft. 17

18. Planning, Management and Leadership for Health IT Effective and Ineffective Leaders Lecture a This material was developed by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number 90WT0007. 18