Master of Science in Leadership RG 5043

As a health care organization, health care reforms and the consumers’ shift to value are pushing organizations like mine to deliver enhanced outcomes and patient experienced at a reduced cost.  We are under pressure from regulatory agencies to align our patient care standards and initiatives in providing high-quality patient care with cost efficiency.  Organizations like mine are trying to reassess our existing capabilities and technology to manage our workforce, finances, and elevate our standard of patient experience re-defining focus on investments to best approach the challenges we face and expand for the future.             While different research in innovation has provided a higher understanding and perception of the social, economic and individual benefits extrapolated from new technologies, there has been minimal significance in the dialogues regarding the probability of detrimental effect that innovation may i...

According to Heimans and Timms (2014), organizations that are traditional and want to harness their competency to new power must 1) evaluate their status in the environment of shifting power, 2) channel their most brutal pundit, and 3) cultivate their capacity to mobilize.  Our brains are phenomenal storage for data and system retrieval that lean towards repetition and patterns.  Original new ideas originate from paradigms that are crossing by accident where the capacity of our self-organizing brains goes to work in a peculiar unification or merging that tirelessly try to make sense of an unprecedented combination. The ground for success is based on different components for one strategy to ensure that all business start-ups would succeed.  Utilizing a lean method start up would result in lesser failures rather than traditional methodologies.  The lean start-up methodology shows or teaches us how to drive, steer, and turn new business start-ups, telling us when to ...

Driving innovation is becoming to be paramount that it gives organizations stronger position from competitors, it generates consumers’ favor or appetite apropos to the organizations’ offering, and innovation magnifies organizations’ capacity to impact the global  market.  Although innovation is geared towards increasing efficiency and reducing the cost for the customers, we also have to keep in mind that innovation is a result of the creativity of the human minds.  Incentivising employees for their creative work in not enough to boost advancement in technology and employee morale, retention, and development.  Open communication that is built on trust and acknowledging the employee’s creativity and contribution is of utmost importance to continually promote and encourage innovative and creative thinking within the organization. According to Canfield & Smith (2011), for   organizational leaders   to compete, they   must   innovate and to in...

       Notar & Padgett (2010) used “thinking outside the box” aligned with critical thinking and creativity.  When organizations ask or empower their workforce to think outside the box, it means they are engaging their employees to be creative and utilize their critical thinking skills in defining and analyzing the problem to reach a logical solution.  When employees conceived new ideas of products and services, organizations need to have an open mind of the possibilities to implement those new ideas into reality. According to McKeown (2014), we can shape a better future if we understand how future tends to emerge and most especially, we need to be open to new possibilities and new opportunities.  One of the process improvement that Delta implemented was to get their employees get invested.  The leadership team reviewed their founder’s mission statement and developed a new set of core principles that outlined the unifying set of behaviors f...

Steiner (2016) claimed that without the skills of self-awareness, the thought process of a leader could be obscured with deception.  The chaotic and complex environment of a manager can cause underutilization of self-awareness to the extent of abandonment.  Steiner’s research showed evidenced that the authenticity and self-awareness were consequential to successful leadership.  Understanding and raising awareness to the essential facet of authenticity and self-awareness as well as authentic behavior and self-awareness posed in leadership was not only imperative to leaders but also to their followers who pursued aligning themselves with their personal authenticity.             Developing teamwork is critical for the success of any organization.  It is to the advantage of the company when every member of the team works cohesively to accomplish departmental and organizational goals.  It is not only of utmost...