NECESSARY LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES IN CHANGING HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS

• Main Authors: Ross, Mariken, Titov, Eneken
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Alliances; Communication skills; Communications systems; Curricula; Health care; Health care facilities; Health care policy; Identity; Leadership; Managerial skills; Managers; Medical electronics; Physicians; Polls & surveys; Values
• ISSN: 1849-6903; 1849-6903

Healthcare leadership has become an increasingly important issue in both public and private sectors in most countries around the world. This is due to a number of different reasons, but the main ones are the growing complexity and sophisticated structure of healthcare systems, rapidly evolving technological and medicinal opportunities and challenges, and changing financial models and needs. To cope with such issues an extensive set of competencies is needed. In this paper we will describe the main competencies and values needed for presentday healthcare leadership. Furthermore the paper will define main characteristics describing needed modern competencies in contemporary health care leadership. For the purpose of reallife input an anonymous questionnaire was conducted amongst the medium-level clinical managers (N= 75) in North Estonia Medical Centre. Participants were asked to evaluate their everyday activities and their importance in relation to leaders' duties. Additional information about relevance of different values was gathered with the survey. The main findings of this survey are outlined in the paper as well as their importance in relation to the main competencies previously characterized. The results of this study will be part of the competency model design for North Estonian Medical Centre. Financial literacy is the most needed and underrepresented competency, but equally important are talent and team management skills, organizational and system awareness and communication skills, all of which are relatively insignificant within medical curricula.