Transformational leadership skills

Hence, we expect that a successful administrative leader in a large, complex healthcare institution—especially a leader who aspires to improve patient safety—frequently faces the need to bring transformational leadership skills to the fore. Moreover, this administrator may find transformational skills all the more necessary when dealing with the medical staff, whose professional stake—except in the extreme case of malpractice—may lie more in a clinical practice partnership than within the walls of the hospital. 

It is very important for safety leaders to develop their transformational leadership skills. But one cannot be an effective transformational leader without strong transactional skills. Both styles are necessary for great safety leadership. A natural disaster, for instance, calls for the forceful command and control skills of an efficient transactional leader to stabilize an inherently unstable situation and to get immediate and urgent results. However, such a situation also requires the supportive and developmental skills of the transformational leader to reassure and support disaster victims and build and sustain their hope and belief in the future. It behooves the leader to cultivate both leadership styles and to become sensitive about when to use each style. 

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Transformational Leadership Theory. People can choose to become leaders, and can learn leadership skills. This is the most widely accepted theory today. 

The book Outsourcing for Radical Change by Thomas Davenport discusses outsourcing strategies for enterprise transformation (Davenport, 2004). It is based on a major study by Accenture and in-depth interviews by the author. It discusses workable action plans for transformational outsourcing, navigating its challenges and the leadership skills necessary to succeed. 

The assignment of staff to the project is the first step in the team-development process. To succeed in achieving the project goals, a team spirit is needed. The transformation of a group of people assigned to a project into a high-performance team requires leadership, communication skills, and negotiation skills as well as the ability to motivate people, coach and mentor them, and deal with conflicts in a professional yet effective way. 

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