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Leadership is an essential health sector practice which can have a direct impact on clinical and organisational outcomes and an indirect effect on all other elements of the operational environment. The need to develop high-performing leaders is important if the vision for transforming healthcare is to be realised. Leadership as a force for change in health takes place at multiple levels and is important to both strategic direction and operational excellence. A synthesis of the competence analysis that has taken place for leadership in the health sector highlights three critical areas of competence: personal insight, professional credibility and an understanding of the organisation’s dynamics if the leader is to negotiate his or her way through systems and processes in order to secure resources to deliver unit or departmental objectives. Succession planning will take account of these and other competences in selecting those to lead and manage health organisations.

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Turner, P. (2018). Succession Planning and Leadership Development. In: Talent Management in Healthcare. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57888-0_7

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