Community Health Center Management Principles for Boards and Senior Managers - Principles 3 & 4 – Focus on Results & Organizations

Community Health Center Management Principles for Boards and Senior Managers - Principles 3 & 4 – Focus on Results & Organizations

This is a continuing series for effective Community Health Center Governing Boards and Senior Management.

First:

Principle 3 – Focus on Results
· Focusing only on the direct visible results where your contribution is relevant.

Second:
Principle 4 – Organizations
· Purpose of the organization:
- To make strengths effective and weaknesses irrelevant.

· Each organization need contribution in three major areas:
- Direct results (the care and feeding of an organization)
- Building of values and their reaffirmation (what do our behaviors
indicate we stand for?)
- Building and developing people for tomorrow (making strengths effective
and weaknesses irrelevant)

Next post: Community Health Center Management Principles for Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 5 – Staffing

Community Health Center Management Principles for Governing Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 2 – The Five Habits of Effectiveness

Community Health Center Management Principles for Governing Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 2 – The Five Habits of Effectiveness

This is a continuing series for effective Community Health Center Governing Boards and Senior Management.

Today we address Principle 2 – The Five Habits of Effectiveness

With a continuing nod to Peter Drucker (see http://www.druckerinstitute.com/ ) we continue this series with Principle 2:

Principle 2 – The Five Habits of Effectiveness
· Know where your time goes
· Direct results
· Building on all strengths
· Concentrating on a few areas where superior performance will produce outstanding results (Doing first things first, and second things not at all)
· Effective decisions demand:
- The right steps
- Completed in the right sequence
- Based on the right strategy

Next post: Community Health Center Management Principles
for Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 3 – Focus on Results

Community Health Center Management Principles for Governing Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 1 - The Job of the Manager

Community Health Center Management Principles for Governing Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 1 - The Job of the Manager

This series of posts will address the nineteen principles of Community Health Center management. Each day we will set-forth a different principle for Community Health Center Boards and Senior Management to consider.
With a respectful nod to Peter Drucker (see http://www.druckerinstitute.com/ )
[This series of nineteen posts is based upon Drucker’s writings and interviews concerning management, leadership, et al.].

This series begins with The Job of the Manager - Principle 1:

Principle 1 – The Job of the Manager (What a manager does)
· To help ordinary people become capable of extraordinary contributions to the organization by staffing from strengths while utilizing:

§ Planning
§ Organizing
§ Staffing
§ Directing
§ Monitoring
§ Leadership

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