FIVE SKILLS

Are the traditional leadership competencies sought and applied by corporations appropriate for the complex academic health center structure, which serves the multiple missions of education, research, patient care, and service to the community? Drexel's ELAM program has explored this question since 1995, obtaining data on the perceived importance of the sixteen leadership skills and perspectives in CCL's Benchmarks® 360-degree feedback instrument. In the ELAM classes there has been consistent and remarkable agreement about the most crucial leadership skills and perspectives among the participants, their bosses, observers from academic health centers, and the CCL norm group.

All these groups have rated five skills as among the most ...

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