A facility professional needs to excell in both leadership and management and can have individual roles or a blended role, according to an article on the FacilityCare website.
Leadership implies helping and aiding others to achieve something greater. Management is more of a technical skill to maintain.
Being visionary is important in a changing healthcare environment. A facility staff needs to believe in a worthwhile journey if they are to come along and follow.
Some of the greatest ideas to improve healthcare are actually coming from outside healthcare. Challenge yourself and your team to look beyond the obvious in improving your organization. Consider going on facility tours outside healthcare, the article suggested.
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