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Reflections of a Healthcare Leader in an Emerging Market in Europe: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Pub. Date	: Sept, 2020
Product Name	: Effective Executive
Product Type	: Coaching and Mentoring
Product Code	: EECM20920
Author Name	: Stephanie Jones, Faris Gavrankapetanovic, Bojan Zec Filipovic
Availability	: YES
Subject/Domain	: Management
Download Format	: PDF Format
No. of Pages	: 7

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Abstract

The challenges of leading through the Covid-19 crisis have included not just remote staff members and customers but business coming to a standstill. Returning to the workplace has been fraught with restrictions, limitations and safety concerns. Leadership in the healthcare sector has been especially difficult, with pressures on already-limited resources, high infection-rates and death-rates, and increased need for total hygiene. One of our co-authors, experienced in the past as a leader of a large hospital and now advising international healthcare authorities, was facing another war zone. He had to listen to anyone with ideas of how to deal with the crisis; had considered unusual and new paths of action; had to act swiftly and with the conviction that any action was better than no action, with nearly everything based on improvisation, whilst surrounded by terrified patients and families and a lack of clarity from governments and the media.

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Leading through the Covid-19 crisis has been challenging enough for business leaders. Their staff members have had to work remotely, their customers have also been in lockdown, and for many companies business has come to a standstill. Even the relief of slowly returning to the workplace and trying to get back to a form of normality has been fraught with restrictions, limitations and unprecedented employee safety concerns. And it is not over yet. Employee and business confidence is at a low ebb, except for the few businesses which have blossomed and flourished in the pandemic, whilst very many others have withered and perished. Leaders are being challenged as never before.