Leadership and Organizations

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At Healthforce Center, we believe that understanding the dynamics between workforce issues, and the leadership skills required to address them, is a vital step to successfully navigating the health care landscape. Our leadership programs and research aim to advance this understanding. 

Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values and Skills

Improvement of the US health care system requires health professionals to be intimately involved in leading its health delivery organizations. Yet, they often have not had the opportunities to fully develop their leadership and management skills.  Below are some of the skills and competencies required for effective leadership:

  • Interpersonal – Self-awareness, awareness of others and emotional intelligence
  • Managerial/Organizational – analytical tools and processes including finance, human resources and marketing
  • Environmental – broad issues driving health care; how to link internal needs and competencies strategically to external realities
  • Motivational – resilience, passion and courage to lead.

Additional Leadership Resources

Publications

Preparing the Next Generation of Health Center Leaders: The Experience of the Clinic Leadership Institute's Emerging Leaders Program

Since its launch in 2008, the Clinic Leadership Institute Emerging Leaders Program (the Program) has been at the forefront of efforts to cultivate...

Building Leadership among Laboratory-based and Clinical and Translational Researchers: the University of California, San Francisco Experience

In 2005 the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) implemented the Scientific Leadership and Management (SLM) course, a 2-day leadership...

Leadership in Action: The Role and Impact of the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program’s California Health Improvement Project (CHIP)

This brief provides an overview of the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program and a summary of results from an assessment of the process and impact...

Leadership Development: A Critical Need in the Dental Safety Net

This research brief presents a qualitative assessment of the leadership training needs of dental directors from community health centers in...

San Francisco Quality Culture Series: Transforming Leadership Teams Across the San Francisco Safety Net

The San Francisco Quality Culture Series (SFQCS) was as a year-long collaborative learning program for clinic leadership teams aimed at building...