{"title":"Evaluating leadership development programs in healthcare organizations: A profile from practice.","authors":"John L Fortenberry","doi":"10.1177/09514848251316103","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To enhance leadership acumen and intelligence among the managerial ranks, many healthcare organizations establish leadership development programs. Doing so makes perfect sense as the caliber of leadership within health and medical institutions profoundly influences all aspects of operation. Although leadership development programs are very capable mechanisms for advancing the state of leadership within healthcare organizations, a notable enhancement-evaluation-is needed to maximize their potential. Across commerce, techniques for evaluating leadership development programs are highly varied. The specific evaluative approach selected matters not, as long as it satisfactorily assesses program performance. Problems, however, emerge when establishments choose to forgo evaluative pursuits altogether. Omission of such often is attributed to fears concerning the complexity of evaluation and its associated resource requirements. It is further hastened by the dearth of easily accessible examples from practice, with this limiting idea sharing, impeding evaluation system development and proliferation. To encourage the circulation of associated ideas, this article provides a helpful account from practice, describing the approach used by Willis Knighton Health to evaluate its leadership development program. This very lean, conservative application constitutes just one of many possibilities. Through its portrayal, it is hoped that healthcare organizations hesitant to engage in the assessment of their leadership development programs will be encouraged to proceed.</p>","PeriodicalId":45801,"journal":{"name":"Health Services Management Research","volume":"38 1_suppl","pages":"17S-21S"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Health Services Management Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09514848251316103","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
To enhance leadership acumen and intelligence among the managerial ranks, many healthcare organizations establish leadership development programs. Doing so makes perfect sense as the caliber of leadership within health and medical institutions profoundly influences all aspects of operation. Although leadership development programs are very capable mechanisms for advancing the state of leadership within healthcare organizations, a notable enhancement-evaluation-is needed to maximize their potential. Across commerce, techniques for evaluating leadership development programs are highly varied. The specific evaluative approach selected matters not, as long as it satisfactorily assesses program performance. Problems, however, emerge when establishments choose to forgo evaluative pursuits altogether. Omission of such often is attributed to fears concerning the complexity of evaluation and its associated resource requirements. It is further hastened by the dearth of easily accessible examples from practice, with this limiting idea sharing, impeding evaluation system development and proliferation. To encourage the circulation of associated ideas, this article provides a helpful account from practice, describing the approach used by Willis Knighton Health to evaluate its leadership development program. This very lean, conservative application constitutes just one of many possibilities. Through its portrayal, it is hoped that healthcare organizations hesitant to engage in the assessment of their leadership development programs will be encouraged to proceed.
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Health Services Management Research (HSMR) is an authoritative international peer-reviewed journal which publishes theoretically and empirically rigorous research on questions of enduring interest to health-care organizations and systems throughout the world. Examining the real issues confronting health services management, it provides an independent view and cutting edge evidence-based research to guide policy-making and management decision-making. HSMR aims to be a forum serving an international community of academics and researchers on the one hand and healthcare managers, executives, policymakers and clinicians and all health professionals on the other. HSMR wants to make a substantial contribution to both research and managerial practice, with particular emphasis placed on publishing studies which offer actionable findings and on promoting knowledge mobilisation toward theoretical advances.