Don’t miss this opportunity to sharpen your skills
When you look across our industry; you see the best healthcare strategists know how to get individuals to work together to accomplish goals. These individuals are respected and effective agents of change for their organizations. As these strategists master the art of influence, they also see how others’ behavior plays an enormous role in both causing and solving problems.
If you are aiming for an advanced role in your organization looking at the latest healthcare strategist job descriptions on SHSMD’s Career Center is quite telling. You will see that role expectations in the strategy professions are expanding, and advanced expertise and ability to influence is critical.
To support our members in this advancing area of expertise, SHSMD is organizing a dynamic full day educational Influencer Training at the SHSMD Connections Annual Conference on September 11, 2016. Through a collaboration with VitalSmarts, the experts who created Crucial Conversations, the New York Times business bestseller that’s transformed organizations and changed the way millions of people communicate, you will be led through key activities with VitalSmarts master trainer Mark Carpenter to extend your ability to influence others and hone some of the skills identified below.
Above and beyond the technical requirements of any advanced strategists’ role is a consistent set of skills required to integrate organizations, innovate, engage and counsel those who depend on our services.
Here are some descriptive terms I found in recent SHSMD job postings:
- Mentor, counsel, lead and develop others
- Manage diverse constituencies
- Build relationships
- Energize, mobilize, and influence
- Strong negotiation with the ability to influence
- Thought leadership
- Strategic thinking, critical thinking
- Effective during change, adaptive
- Intellectual curiosity; continuously learn
- Synthesize complex information
- Lead highly complex, multi-year efforts
Many of these same attributes and skills are found in SHSMD’s Bridging Worlds: The Future Role of the Healthcare Strategist (p.61):
- Negotiator, Political savvy, Persuasive, relational
- Critical Thinking, Design Thinking, Integrative Thinking, Systems Thinking
- Comfortable amidst conflict, Courageous, Moxie, Risk Tolerant
- Inquisitive, Curious, Pundit, Imaginative
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. We invite you to deepen your learning and advance your skill set. To register for Influencer Training click here.
By Donna Teach, APR | July 13, 2016
Chief Marketing and Communication Officer
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH