Working in healthcare settings requires collaborative work environment where employees are safe to offer ideas for service efficiency. Secondly, those managers who can deliver professional presentations, process and transmit information, and engage in positive feedback are those with effective management skills. Individuals and leader(s) within team environment must understand and act in which trust is set as a foundational framework. Prosperous team environment is more effective when members established sense of mutual trust. Heavey, Halliday, Gilbert & Murphy (2011) described enhancing performance as: bringing trust, commitment and motivation together in organizations. The article explored the important of providing deeper understanding of mutual trust to organizational motivation and performance.
According to HR Folks Consulting (n.d.), Behavioral Event Interview (BEI) is structured in format that is normally used to gather potential employee’s information, based on past behavior. The one BEI question I would ask to help in hiring of potential public health position is: what would you say was the best working relationship with your past employees? The fundamental starting point, as a supervisor is having a good understanding of human nature and sound working relationship with employees, such as needs, emotions, socializations and motivation. As one of the strengths of creativity traits, social skills are effective in dealing with employees of different backgrounds.
We also found in some case studies that the ability to empower others was a behavior associated with collective leadership. This notion of empowerment has historical roots in the social change movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when it unfolded as a process for the “oppressed” to use their strengths to take charge of their lives or for the others. The empowerment process, viewed through a social change lens, involves increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals, families, and communities can take action and to improve their situations (Gutierrez, 1994).
A great public health leader enables greatness, build trust, stimulates and influences others while helping members to reach organizational goals. However, I think anyone can manage teams, but to lead is a talent that required leadership transparency. And to be a transparent leader, one must retain leadership styles of commitments, honesty, trust, open-minded, dependability and uprightness.
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Heavey, C., Halliday, S., Gilbert, D., & Murphy, E. (2011). Enhancing performance: Bringing trust, commitment and motivation together in organizations. Journal Of General Management, 36(3), 1-18.
HR Folks Consulting. (n.d.). Conducting a detailed Behavioural Event Interview. Retrieved from http://www.hrfolks.com/bei.aspx
