Leadership Style in Community-Based Healthcare

¶ … Leadership Style in Community-Based Healthcare

This paper discusses about finding a leadership style that is applicable in community-based healthcare provisions with more emphasis on the qualities of leadership and skills required in this field especially for a person with ENTJ personality. As the paper illustrates, leadership will incorporate the relevant processes to enable others perform a given task with either a formal or an informal influence depending whether it applies in leadership perspective, a managerial perspective, or a combination of the two (Wiseman, & Guy, n, d.). For an ENTJ personality, leadership should direct and mobile followers to perform a particular set task where talents dictates success of the strategies put in place (Berens, 2001). Their leadership styles and creative expressions should be inclined towards success. In addition, proper communication and education helps maintain and acquire respectively the necessary skills and qualities of a leader. Because the leadership skills and qualities can be complex in understanding as they range from technical or analytical skills, relation skills, strategic skills, financial and personal to self development skills, finding appropriate leadership style in a field, leadership skills and competences/qualities are integrative key factors in leadership and they should be in harmony to achieve the set goals.

Finding Your Leadership Style in Community-Based Healthcare

Leadership skills and qualities will differ between individuals, and this capability constitutes the procedures in which an individual becomes obligated to lead, irrespective of the level and subject matter in leadership. In addition to this capability, the leader should also be able to involve others such that they undertake a task that the leader desires and the increasing influence that this individual has on other people goes beyond their formal capacities. In this perspective, a leader will be either formal or informal. For a formal leader, this individual will have a formal authority coupled by varying degrees of incremental effect on others and this for instance can apply for department head. On the other hand, an informal leader will have no formal power on others but with be having a lot of incremental influence. These two will apply in any leadership level and in any field. Any leadership, depending on its application will have either a precise application or imprecise implementation. This will also depend on whether the application is under a leader or managers because these two differ in some extend (Wiseman, & Guy, n.d.). Therefore, it is important also to understand the difference that exists between a leader and a manger as these two overlap in their executions. For example, a leader can or can fail to be a manager too and vice versa, or can have the two qualities. Therefore, to find the appropriate leadership style in a field, leadership skills and competences/qualities are integrative key factors in leadership and they should be in harmony to achieve the set goals.

In reference to the two, a leader and a manger, a leader will be able to establish direction to others as well as bring in to line other people such that in the process he is able to motivate and stimulate others to produce change in the end with a main target in the exercise. Differently, a manager will be able to plan and budget his/her respective department finances and other necessary necessities in the quest to organize and staff his/her subordinates to solve a problem by establishing the proper order and predictability such that the intended activities/tasks are able to move forward smoothly.

For an effective leadership, it will depend on how, who, the leader associates and what he/she puts in a system. For example, how a leader behaves determines the leadership style of that leader and who the followers are is determined by the capability and what and how the leader induces his/her followers in a certain direction for any given task to be completed. In addition, the harmony that exist between the how and the who above will definitely affect the effectiveness of any leadership and then, what leadership skills a leader is able to inflict in the system to produce the desired results (Wiseman, & Guy, n.d.).

The understanding of what entails a leader and a manger forms the basis to understanding the qualities and skills necessary for a general practitioner in leadership, for example in community healthcare. This is however, a general perspective, as no specific personality type is in question. Therefore, in respect to this, we look at leadership skills and qualities in respect to an ENTJ personality as it is the association of a particular personality and leadership that helps one understand his/her leadership style.

With an ENTJ personality, the leader is out to direct and mobilize others to undertake a certain task where their talents will determine the policies necessary for development, putting down the required plans and enabling an unbroken series of any associated undertakings in the efforts to implement the strategies in place (Sperry, 2002). This personality type is the one that directs the followers to attaining set goals as their uncompromised visions help in the structuring flourish in controlling crowds to undertake required tasks. From their capacity to organize things perfectly, an ENTJ type are able to stay in control is difficult situations and thus be at peace in establishing effective organizations with set significance to help attain set goals (Berens, 2001, p. 22).

These people (ENTJ personalities) when in the attempt to find solutions to problems that face them, they will remain distant without any personal reference or objective as they mentally conventionalize and obtain necessary information factually, which will enable them, through their visions find encouragements to achieve set goals. With an open perspective, they are able to think outside the box in a faster and accurate way to establish "same time" examinations of the great number references. From this approach, they are able to make certain decisions that have strong basis on their orderly structure to undertake and met their long-term plans or policies. Decision making being a core aspect of the processes of solving a problem, the ENTJs put in place a correctly reasoned exchange of views that has long-term consequences. As different situations can present varying challenges that may require prioritization, they are able to apply their flexibility to utilize time wisely such that they avoid disappointments that may result from poor decision-making and prioritization (Berens, 2001). To manage the situations perfectly, they will use their intelligence to establish logistics that work for different situations, applying their relevant leadership styles.

The ENTJs leadership style asserts itself as an essential aspect that is inclined to vision and orientations that remain advancing to solve the respective problems. Their communication priority remains high and the significance that relates unrelenting critical analysis is their focus. The general practitioners, as leaders, will live in situations that are complicated and of urgent claims and such situations help, them to remain stimulated throughout their leadership as they organize and put together their intelligences to foretell the possible consequences and therefore being able to put in place the necessary short-term procedures and plots that help achieve the set aim. They will at some times present a positive notion but limited because they try to reduce out-speaking about their challenging social distinctive capabilities. Through their abilities, they remain prevailing and self-assertive to maintain their exalted influence. Because they will spare no single effort to achieve their long-term goals in structuring and developing their abilities, their positive attributes on leadership however may disrupt their physical or mental investments because some of the leaders observe the practical acquaintance of the facts concerning their sense of dignity or superiority endurance of extra-vision opinions (Berens, 2001, p. 22)

There will always be a times when creativity comes in handy in trying to solve some demanding or difficult tasks that may require or look routinely oriented in the serve to direct, which can come as a trial of one's capacity. Whenever this happens, they will stand out to present a preliminary plan and carry out the fundamental strategy with ingenious simplicity. Driven by their determination to succeed more effectively, and perceive clearly than any prior attempts on the endeavor, their capacity for activity in the organization of the necessary frameworks and logistics, are the uncertain but certain methods/procedures of making things a reality concerning the main goal. This is a character they exhibit to outdo others with a back-vision that this procedure is only a fraction of the long-term strategy. Because the ENTJs are able to kill several birds with a single stone, they are able to orient others through their innovativeness, to establish the best possible methods to plan and control utilization of the available resources to achieve the best possible results with positive consequences. They will also take pleasure in finding out a most significant orientation and assist others to achieve the set goals (Berens, 2001).

It is obvious that any leader will involve other people so that they work out as a team because leaders on their own cannot complete any task as they only do part of the entire process of strategizing. They will need others to contemplate on some issues as well as complete the required tasks. Therefore, an ENTJ leader will need to accompany a team as expected. That is to say, that a team player should remain incorporated in the leadership processes, if this is a necessary component that will enable completion of the set task. Here, one will establish that the leadership associations remain a two-way corporation/correspondence to enhance personal freedom. In addition, the development of the policies in for instance the community healthcare provision, will have established structures that allow effective coordination of activities involved such that implementation of the appropriate strategies are done as expected (Sperry, 2002). Still in as the working as a team is concerned, organizations structure that concern making decisions, and essential detailed examination of the elements of the structure to answer the arising questions are vital considerations. Moreover, bringing together the necessary strengths to motivate others so that they become part of the process because the combining reasoning and external skillful criticism of any decisions put forward, plots, and information are key components of a teamwork oriented of leadership.

This discussion leads to another important feature of teamwork style. This is the style that a leader or to be specific an ENTJ personality leader uses as a determining factor of the leadership performance especially for the general practitioners. Therefore, a teamwork style will involves a leader being able to organize and orient others/followers to achieve the set targets. These leaders should also be able to be in a position to achieve and act on their responsibilities without compromise because they have to representatively control of all undertakings with focused motives to stay within the set time limits, fulfill the required demands such that they at the end achieve their goals.

In the relationships that establish themselves in the whole system of leaderships and managements, there are certain situations that can remain tricky to the leaders. This is to say that there are latent situations or conditions that have unseen circumstances. For instance, in the expected two-way correspondence/communication between the leader and his followers, some leaders may fail to express warm approval or admirations or even pass necessary information that others may need hence failing to notice their contributing factors or rights in the entire process of achieving a certain goal. A leader who will find him/her self quickly concluding situations without consideration of other people's views, or fail to remain accountable for their obligations, then they should be concerned as these are some of the unseen and unfortunate circumstances that erupt in leaderships. In addition, a leader should be alert enough to avoid taking hurried decision that may require rapid actions because of relentless eager coupled by dictatorship (Sperry, 2002). If leaders happen to be part of this, then, they might fail to identify the facts that any activity or task has their limits and thus if these conditions are violated then, the entire process becomes affected consequently leading to failure to achieve the expected goals.

Apart from the unforeseen and unfortunate black spots that may crop up in leadership, it is fundamental to bear in mind the contributions and expectation of other team players so that collectively the intended goal remains a reality. Thus, helping the other team players to attain success also determine to ultimate success of the whole system. To do this, team players should have the permission to have self-freedom and non-dependency. They should have the opportunity to identify relevant accomplishments and abilities that they consider as so from other people as well as present correctly reasoned factors that remain fundamental to the required procedures and finally have the opportunity to be at peace to set up long-term goals (Berens, 2001, p. 23).

Being in leadership, it calls for extraneous use of resources, both personal and non-personal. On an individual perspective, a leader especially the one with an ENTJ personality will end up stressed up in the quest to marshal up necessary parties and requirements that enable achievement of the long-term strategies. Whenever the expected results or a part of the entire process fails to perform as expected, then a leader will end up in a stressed situation. From the enormous constraining influence, leaders' talent or special aptitude to undertake many obligations ends up being over exploited causing even extra loads to the leader him/herself as well as others. At many times, many leaders will fail to recognize how their own characters influence others who are under their leadership. Therefore, understanding the best way to deal with stress in leadership determines the efficiency of leadership. If at any one incident, certain situations that can cause stress are recognized, other people for instance will or may fail to understand the leaders' unfortunate circumstances and ends up carrying the whole burden of lack of requires skills of leadership. Such a situation will fuel failure because the leader ends up being in an undecided state of own capability hence guilty (Sperry, 2002). When this happens, then a leader will fail to manage, time, financial and workforce resources and the eventual consequence is failure to accomplish the expected goals. When failure becomes evident to the face of a leader, it can trigger uncertain behaviors such as dictatorship and urgency of claims and because of the prior nature of being a leader, then one can very quickly and effectively get frustrated by his/her incompetency.