Adopting the right leadership styles and modelling them for emerging leaders
Leaders should be flexible in their style, being directive when necessary, but also engaging others in decision-making. They need to recognise the complex environment of health care and should work between teams and organisations as well as within them. Organisations with the right culture of care recognise the positive relationship between medical engagement and organisational performance, and encourage partnership between clinicians and general managers and engagement with patients.
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