ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights self-assessment instruments to demonstrate how to achieve balanced leadership for optimal communication relationships and alignment between leadership roles and organizational goals. It explores a leadership alignment strategy to help C-level executives and managers identify personal strengths and weaknesses, develop improvement plans, and realign their leadership roles with organizational goals and strategies. Shared leadership could operate in multiple areas of a healthcare organization, including the C-suite, divisions of care, and service lines. The leadership roles that C-level executives assume, and even current leadership development programs and skill-building initiatives, need to align with the strategic objectives. Increasing safety through interfunctional collaboration, breaking down silos, identifying innovative methods of care delivery, and leveraging resources and capabilities across the accountable care organization are important areas of focus of leadership in the capacity of the innovator role. The chapter focuses on the value of aligning message orientations to the type of stakeholders that healthcare leaders engage in their daily operations.
