Belhaven University Vulnerability in Christian Leadership Essay After completing the Hall lecture and reading assignments, develop a 750-1000 word written

Belhaven University Vulnerability in Christian Leadership Essay After completing the Hall lecture and reading assignments, develop a 750-1000 word written response paper to the following question. Papers must include a substantive elaboration on the topic as well as support from scripture. Do not use the question in your response. Discuss how vulnerability can be utilized as a positive leadership trait for the Christian health administrator. Health Administration Capstone
MHA 670
Hall #5
Vulnerability, Error, and Opportunity
Introduction to Hall
• Transformational leaders
▫ Personal influence
• Control management no longer
appropriate
• Secure with vulnerability
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Topics Covered
• Vulnerability
▫ Power
▫ Cycle of Vulnerability
• Cultivating Leadership Vulnerability
• Fostering relationships
• Error as opportunity for healthcare
leadership
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Hall Objectives
• Discuss how Biblical worldview provides
support for the leadership vulnerability.
• Understand vulnerability as a positive
leadership trait.
• Develop an understanding of the value of
leadership vulnerability as it relates to
current healthcare organizations.
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Hall Objectives (cont.)
• Describe the concept of error as an
opportunity to improve healthcare
outcomes.
• Identify principles used to guide leaders
in facilitating the transformation to a
culture of safety.
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Biblical Worldview Application
• 2 Corinthians 6:11-12
▫ Spoken freely
▫ Hearts opened wide
▫ Are you withholding
affection from others?
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Leadership Fitness
• Comfortable taking risks
• Vulnerability
• Stretching current
boundaries
• Coaching employees
• Creating a new framework
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What is Vulnerability
• Open to emotional or physical danger
(Webster)
• Risk
• Exposure
• Show deficits
• Requires strength and courage
• Not the same as charisma
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Quantum Leaders
• Absence of ego
• Relationship principles
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Power
Diversity
Personal boundaries
Take risks
• Never obtain a complete picture
• Develop new strategies
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Power
• Infinite quantity
• Located in each person
• Right of everyone
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Power As A Leader
Cycle of Vulnerability
Take Risks
Become
Vulnerable
Stretch
Organizational
Capacity
Cherish New
Knowledge
Live New
Capacity
Evaluate
Outcomes
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Becoming Vulnerable
• Admitting uncertainty
• Fear of the unknown
• Opening yourself to
others
• NOT a bad leader
• Awareness of
limitations
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Risk Taking
• Encourages creativity
• Supports “ tinkering”
• Requires continuous evaluation
• Allows for mistakes
• Requires vulnerability and resiliency
• Is avoided by leaders
• Inconsistent with classical leadership
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Rational Risk
• Advancing the Organization
• Developing Skills
• Mandatory Reporting
• Whistle Blowing
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Biblical Worldview Application
• Hebrews 11:8-10
▫ Great faith
▫ Risks based on belief and trust
• The greater the risk, the
greater the possibility of
blessing.
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Stretching One’s Capacity
• Seek new and untapped potential
• Search for them
• Harness their energy and talent
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Living The New Reality
• Trial and error
• Involves
▫ Allowing integration
▫ Determining fit
▫ Unanticipated outcomes
▫ Coaching for sustainability
▫ Vulnerability
▫ Mutual trust
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Evaluating The Results
• New work processes
▫ Quality
▫ Productivity
▫ Cost
• Multiple Indicators
• Positive or negative outcomes
• Helps avoid assumptions
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Cherishing New Knowledge
• Make use of knowledge
• Verify what was valuable
• Learn what was problematic
• Repeating positive efforts
• Avoiding negative results
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Fostering Relationships
Fostering Relationships (cont.)
• Valuing diversity
• Privacy
• Self-Disclosure
• Relationship Skills
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Valuing Diversity
• Multi-faceted
• Uniqueness of the individual
• Acceptance of change
• Continually emerging
• Differences as enhancements
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Privacy
• Impact of Internet
• Personal Boundaries
▫ Physical
▫ Mental
▫ Spiritual
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Physical Boundaries
• Personal space
• Touch
▫ How much
▫ Whom
▫ What kind
• Money
• Time/Energy
• Belongings
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Mental Boundaries
• Beliefs
• Emotions
• Intuition
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Spiritual Boundaries
• Self-esteem
• Sense of identity
• Relationship with God
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Self-Disclosure
• Revealing one’s self to another
• Leads to:
▫ Greater understanding
▫ Trust
▫ Compassion
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Biblical Worldview Application
• James 5:16
▫ Confess to each other
▫ Humbles the soul
▫ Provides healing
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Relationship Skills
• Complexity communication
▫ Critical listening
▫ Critical questioning
▫ Critical thinking
• Collective mindfulness
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Critical Listening
• Evaluating a message
• Accept or reject
• Skills necessary
▫ Open mind
▫ Separate fact from
opinion
▫ Spot weaknesses
▫ Judge soundness
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Critical Questioning
• Check individual perceptions
• Minimize misinterpretation
• Foster intellectual curiosity
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Critical Thinking
• Examine thought processes
• Clarify content
• Clarify assumptions
• See other’s viewpoints
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Cultivating Leadership Vulnerability
• Open Communication
▫ Work belongs to all members
▫ Enhances effectiveness
▫ Enhances capacity
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Cultivating Leadership Vulnerability
(cont.)
• Syndication
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Tap latent potential
External resources
Rethink strategies
Change interactions
Reshape organizations
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Error
• Failures or unwanted outcomes
• Inevitable
• New perspective
▫ Failure as act of courage
▫ Lessons learned from failure
▫ Discipline is not the initial reaction
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Error as Foolishness
• Result of human foolishness
• Avoids the personal
• Learn from events
• Opportunity for growth
• Move from blame
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Recognizing and Recovering from
Error
• Take responsibility
• Maintain openness
• Coaching employees
• Recovery strategy
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Acknowledge remorse
Clarification and social support
Discover source
Actions to prevent repetition
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Health Care Leadership: Errors and
Opportunities
• Current systems are ineffective
• Change in organizational culture
• Leadership
• Patient care provision
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Errors and Opportunities
• Error
▫ Failure to shift to value-based
healthcare
• Opportunity
▫ Practice within the marketplace
 Value
 Eliminate non-valued added services
 team=-based healthcare
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Errors and Opportunities
• Error
▫ Failure to win health care products
• Opportunity
▫ Political competence
▫ Living accountability
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Errors and Opportunities (cont.)
• Error
▫ Fragmented Leadership
 Financial perspective
 Integration of clinical needs
• Opportunity
▫ Holographic leadership
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Errors and Opportunities (cont.)
• Error
▫ Dehumanization of Providers
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Workforce reductions
Staffing ratios
Developmental freeze
Hiring bonuses
• Opportunity
▫ Revaluing Providers
 Evidence-based staffing
 Accountability for learning
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Errors and Opportunities (cont.)
• Error
▫ Demanding the Impossible
• Opportunity
▫ Managing Needs-Resources Gap
 Team
 Minimize gap
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Covey – Leadership Evolution
• No shortcuts
• Win-Win Agreements
▫ Desired Results
▫ Set Guidelines
▫ Identify Resources
▫ Accountability
▫ Consequences
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Biblical Worldview Application
• Philippians 2:3-5
▫ Not selfish ambition
▫ Counts other more
significant
▫ Look to interest of
others
▫ Having the mind of
Christ
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Recap of Hall
• Vulnerability
• Fostering relationships
• Cultivating Leadership Vulnerability
• Error as opportunity for healthcare
leadership
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What’s next?
• Complete the reading assignments
• Take the Hall Quiz
• Answer the discussion questions
• Complete the writing assignments
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References
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• Brown, B. (2013). Embracing Vulnerability. Retrieved from

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