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Development o an InterproessionalCompetency Model or Healthcare

LeadershipJudith G. Calhoun, PhD, associate proessor, Department o Health Management and

Policy, School o Public Health, University o Michigan, Ann Arbor; Lorayne Dollett,

vice president, The Hay Group; Marie E. Sinioris, president and chie executive ofcer,

National Center or Healthcare Leadership, Chicago; Joyce Anne Wainio, vice president,

National Center or Healthcare Leadership; Peter W. Butler, executive vice president

and chie operating ofcer, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago; John R. Grifth,

FACHE, Andrew Pattullo Collegiate Proessor, Department o Health Management

and Policy, School o Public Health, University o Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Gail L.Warden, FACHE, president emeritus, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan

e x e C u t i v e s u m m a r Y

During the past decade, there has been a growing interest in competency-based

perormance systems or enhancing both individual and organizational perormance

in health proessions education and the varied healthcare industry sectors. In 2003,

the Institute o Medicines reportHealth Proessions Education: A Bridge to Qualitycalled or a core set o competencies across the proessions to ultimately improve

the quality o healthcare in the United States. This article reviews the processes and

outcomes associated with the development o the Health Leadership Competency

Model (HLCM), an evidence-based and behaviorally ocused approach or evaluating

leadership skills across the proessions, including health management, medicine, and

nursing, and across career stages.

The HLCM was developed rom extensive academic research and widespread

application outside healthcare. Early development included behavioral event inter-

viewing, psychometric analysis, and cross-industry sector benchmarking. Applica-tion to healthcare was supported by additional literature review, practice analysis,

expert panel inputs, and pilot-testing surveys. The model addresses three overarching

domains subsuming 26 behavioral and technical competencies. Each competency

is composed o prescriptive behavioral indicators, or levels, or development and

assessment as individuals progress through their careers rom entry-level to mid-level

and advanced stages o lielong development. The model supports identication o

opportunities or leadership improvement in both academic and practice settings.

For more inormation on the concepts in this article, please contact Dr. Calhoun

at [email protected].

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Journal of Healthcare Management 53:6 November/December 2008

The need or major improvement

in American healthcare was docu-

mented in the rst two Institute o

Medicine (IOM 1999, 2001) watershed

reports. Subsequent work has sup-ported and expanded the identied

shortcomings (Amalberti et al. 2005;

Asch et al. 2005; 2006; Jha et al. 2005;

Mularski et al. 2006; Pham, Cough-

lan, and OMalley 2006; Shrank et al.

2006; Williams et al. 2005; IOM Board

on Health Care Services 2007; Warden

2001). The third IOM report, Health

Proessions Education: A Bridge to Qual-ity(2003), specically argued that the

ultimate goal o enhancing the quality

o care in the United States cannot be

achieved without reorming education

and proessional development across

the health proessions. As addressed in

a 2005 Joint Commission white paper,

Health Care at the Crossroads, competen-

cy or outcome-based education has been

increasingly examined and endorsed by

the many educational accreditation and

proessional certication bodies across

the health proessions.

During the past three decades, many

companies in other industries have used

core competency models to guide stra-

tegic improvement programs addressing

management practices and the eective-

ness o organizational culture (Boyatzis2006; Intagliata, Ulrich, and Smallwood

2000; Ulrich, Zenger, and Smallwood

2000). In addition, a large number o

job-related or role-specic competencies

have been created to assist with man-

agement development at manyFortune

500 organizations (Boyatzis et al. 1996;

Lucia and Lepsinger 1999; Calhoun et

al. 2008). In the eld o healthcare, the

pharmaceutical, health insurance, and

biotechnology sectorsin addition to

larger integrated delivery systems such

as the Catholic Health Association

(OToole et al. 2007) and Ascension

Health (Giganti 2002)have pursuedcorporate-level competency modeling

initiatives.Competency models have

been subsequently developed across a

number o industry sectors or specic

jobs within the health proessions,

including medicine, nursing, pharmacy,

and public health (Calhoun et al. 2002;

Carraccio et al. 2004; Garman and John-

son 2006; Little and Milliken 2007).To date, most o these initiatives have

been based on long-established and

researched expert panel opinion and

consensus-building methods.

In response to the call or a com-

mon set o competencies across the

proessions (IOM 2003), the National

Center or Healthcare Leadership

(NCHL) committed to the develop-

ment o an empirically derived model

specically ocusing on leadership acu-

men in healthcare. NCHLs intent was

to provide a method o measuring the

skills necessary or eective perormance

in all types and levels o management,

including rst-line clinical managers

and the senior management team. The

model was developed to provide a com-

mon language and ramework to guideuture health management leadership,

conceptual discussions, research regard-

ing essential characteristics and poten-

tial determinants or success, planning

or improved perormance or indi-

viduals and organizations, and educa-

tional and proessional development in

the eld.

This article reviews the processes

and outcomes associated with the





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An Interprofess ional Competency Model for Healthcare Leadership

is dened using three to six levels o

perormance. For example, the scaled

levels or both a behavioral competency

(Accountability) and a technical compe-

tency (Financial Skills) are listed here.More behavioral-based explanations or

both o these competencies are provided

in Figure 2.

Accountability

Level 1: Communicates requirements

and expectations

Level 2: Sets limits

Level 3: Demands high perormance

Level 4: Conronts perormance

problems

Level 5:Creates a culture o

responsibility

Financial Skills

Level 1: Explains nancial metrics and

reports

Level 2: Manages budgets and assets

Level 3: Understands impact o

reimbursement models

Level 4: Evaluates nancial analyses and

investments

Level 5: Develops long-term nancial

plans

As noted earlier and or urther

illustration, ve levels o specied

behavior are incorporated in the Ac-

countability competency. Data obtainedor the development o the model (see

Table 1, Phase II, Section 2.2c) reveal

that outstanding early careerists, in

contrast to typical early career perorm-

ers, unction at a Level 3 in relation to

this competency. Outstanding mid-level

and advanced-level careerists perorm

at Level 4 and Level 5, respectively. I

upon assessment, employees at specic

career stages are not unctioning at the

development o the Health Leadership

Competency Model (HLCM), now in

use at a number o healthcare organiza-

tions and graduate programs in health-

care management. Specically outlinedare the competency identication,

specication, and validation processes

or the model.

H e a l t H l e a d e r s H i p

C o m p e t e n C Y m o d e l ,

v e r s i o n 2 . 0

The current version o HLCM, version

2.0, is graphically displayed in theVenn diagram in Figure 1. The model

is based on the denition o compe-

tency asthose behavioral and techni-

cal characteristics (competencies) that

discriminate outstanding leadership

perormance rom typical perormance

across the health proessions (Spencer,

McClelland, and Spencer 1994). The

model includes three domainstrans-

ormation, execution, and peopleand

18 behavioral competency categories or

constructs and eight technical compe-

tencies (noted by asterisks in Figure 1).

The specic denitions or each o the

three domains and the concept names

or each o the 26 competencies are also

shown in Figure 2. At any given time,

an organization or an individual may

emphasize selected domains. However,the other areas are still important and

should continue to be considered dur-

ing all individual and organizational

perormance assessment activities.

Competencies in the HLCM are

scaled to describe how the compe-

tency is demonstrated as positions/roles

increase in scope, complexity, or sophis-

tication. The scales are termed levels o

competency. Each HLCM competency





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appropriate level or outstanding per-

ormance, then additional education ortraining opportunities may be identied

to acilitate specic skill enhancement.

In relation to the technically based Fi-

nancial Skills competency, perormance

or each career stage was at similar

levels: early career, Level 3; mid-career,

Level 4; and advanced career, Level 5.

Again, i an employee working in a

specic nancial unctional role is not

unctioning at the prescribed Level 3,

additional development opportunities

could be designed or engaged to elevatethe individuals skill to that preerred

level or continued assessment and de-

velopment as needed.

m o d e l d e v e l o p m e n t

m e t H o d s

The HLCM is based on behavioral

observation and multimethod state-

o-the-art competency research and

modeling methods (Boyatzis, Cowen,

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*Indicates a technical competency

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TransormationVisioning, energizing, and stimulating a change process that coalesces

communities, patients, and proessionals around new models o healthcare and wellness.

Transormation competencies include the ollowing:

Achievement Orientation:A concern or surpassing a standard o excellence. The standard

may be ones own past perormance (striving or improvement), an objective measure

(results orientation), outperorming others (competitiveness), challenging goals, or

something that has been done previously (innovation).

Analytical Thinking:The ability to understand a situation, issue, or problem by breaking it

into smaller pieces or tracing its implications in a step-by-step way. It includes organizing

the parts o a situation, issue, or problem systematically; making systematic comparisons

o dierent eatures or aspects; setting priorities on a rational basis; and identiying time

sequences, causal relationships, or i-then relationships.

Community Orientation:The ability to align ones own and the organizations priorities withthe needs and values o the community, including its cultural and ethnocentric values,

and to move health orward in line with population-based wellness needs and the national

health agenda.

Financial Skills:The ability to understand and explain nancial and accounting inormation,

prepare and manage budgets, and make sound long-term investment decisions.

Inormation Seeking:An underlying curiosity and desire to know more about things,

people, or issues, including the desire or knowledge and staying current with health,

organizational, industry, and proessional trends and developments.

Innovative Thinking:The ability to use creative and conceptual thinking or inductive

reasoning to identiy patterns or connections between situations that are not obviouslyrelated, as well as key or underlying issues in complex situations.

Strategic Orientation:The ability to draw implications and conclusions in light o the

business, economic, demographic, ethnocultural, political, and regulatory trends and

developments and to use these insights to develop an evolving vision or the organization

and the health industry that results in long-term success and viability.

ExecutionTranslating vision and strategy into optimal organizational perormance. Execution

competencies include the ollowing:

Accountability:The ability to hold people accountable to standards o perormance or

ensure compliance using the power o ones position or orce o personality appropriately

and eectively, keeping the long-term good o the organization in mind.Change Leadership:The ability to energize stakeholders and sustain their commitment to

changes in approaches, processes, and strategies.

Collaboration:The ability to work cooperatively with others as par t o a team or group,

including demonstrating positive attitudes about the team, its members, and its ability to get

its mission accomplished.

Communication:The ability to speak and write in a clear, logical, and grammatical manner

in ormal and inormal situations; to prepare cogent business presentations; and to acilitate

a group.

Impact and Inuence:The ability to persuade and convince others (individuals or groups) to

support a point o view, position, or recommendation.





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Inormation Technology Management:The ability to see the potential in, understand,

and use administrative and clinical inormation and decision-support tools, including the

potential o the World Wide Web.

Initiative:The ability to anticipate obstacles, developments, and problems by looking ahead

several months or more than a year.

Organizational Awareness:The ability to understand the ormal and inormal decision-making structures in an organization or industry (e.g., stakeholders, suppliers), including

identiying who the real decision makers are and the individuals or processes that infuence

them.

Perormance Measurement:The ability to understand and use statistical and nancial

methods and metrics to set goals and to measure clinical and organizational perormance

as well as a commitment to and use o evidence-based techniques.

Process Management and Organizational Design:The ability to analyze and design

or improve an organizational process, including incorporating the principles o qualitymanagement as well as customer satisaction.

Project Management:The ability to plan and execute a multiyear, multimillion dollar

project with signicant scope and impact as well as manage a team. Examples include

constructing a major building, implementing an enterprise-wide system (patient tracking,

SAP), or development o a new service line.

PeopleCreating an organizational climate that values employees rom all backgrounds

and provides an energizing environment or them. Also includes the leaders responsibility to

understand his or her impact on others and to improve his or her capabilities, as well as the

capabilities o others. People competencies include the ollowing:

Human Resources Management:The ability to implement employment practices thatcomply with legal and regulatory requirements and to represent contemporary approaches

to human resources policies.

Interpersonal Understanding:The ability to accurately hear and understand the unspoken

or partly expressed thoughts, eelings, and concerns o others.

Proessionalism:The demonstration o ethics and proessional practices as well as

stimulating social accountability and community stewardship. The desire to act in a way that

is consistent with ones values and what one says is important.

Relationship Building:The ability to establish, build, and sustain proessional contacts

or the purpose o building networks o people with similar goals and that support similar

interests.Sel-Confdence:A belie and conviction in ones own ability, success, and decisions or

opinions when executing plans and addressing challenges.

Sel-Development:The ability to see an accurate view o ones own strengths and

development needs, including ones impact on others. A willingness to address needs

through sel-directed learning and trying new leadership approaches.

Talent Development:The drive to build the breadth and depth o the organizations human

capability, including supporting top-perorming people and taking a personal interest in

coaching and mentoring high-potential leaders.

Team Leadership:The ability to see onesel as a leader o others, rom orming a top team

that possesses balanced capabilities to setting the mission, values, and norms and holdingteam members accountable or results individually and as a group.





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t a B l e 1

sy nCHl Ccy m d rch mh

Phase I:Baseline Model Development (Version 1.1)

Goal: Identiy specic core leadership constructs and related knowledge skills and other

behaviors.

mh pc dc

1.1. Advisory committee/expert panel oversight

1.2. Literature document review

1.3. Practitioner interviews

1.4. Drat + pilot eld test surveying

1.5. Field/practice analysis surveying

1.6. Analysis o survey data

Calhoun et al. (2004)

Phase II: Career Stage and Interproessional Model Development (Version 2.0)

Goal: Rene the model and validate or individual and organizational development.

mh pc dc

2.1 Prior NCHL competency research

2.2 Behavioral event interview (BEI)

2.1a. Review and incorporation o prior model

development outcomes

2.2a. Interviews with 84 high-perorming

healthcare leaders

2.2b. Transcribed interviews

- 100150 pages/interview

- 6,000 transcript pages

- 10,000 coded competency variables (unit o

analysis)

2.2c. Independent coding by six trained, accredited

BEI analysts85% level o correct coding or

sample training (reerent) cases and 90% inter-

rater agreement across interviews- Competency comparison with:

Phase I NCHL CompetencyDictionary

Hay Competency Dictionary derived rom

N = 100,000 competencies across industries

- Analyst identication o outstanding group o

perormers

Dierentiation o competencies required or

highest levels o perormance





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and Kolb 1995; Boyatzis 1998; Spencer

1991; Spencer, McClelland, and Spencer

1994). The model was developed in two

phases: (1) Phase I, identication and

specication o the core leadership con-

structs, including essential knowledge,

skills, and other behaviors exempliying

high levels o perormance in health

management and policy, and (2) Phase

II, urther renement and expansion on

the baseline ramework or career stage

and interproessional education and

ta B l e 1 c

mh pc dc

2.3 One-to-one interviews

- Futurists and industry opinion

leaders (N = 7)

- Graduate program chairs and

proessors (N = 11)

- Diversity reerence groups (N = 6)

2.4 Database benchmarking

2.5 Formation o the nal concept and

model specication

- Expert panel (N=15): practitioners,

academicians, and competency

modeling developers andresearchers

2.3a. Expert panel interviewee identication by

NCHL:

- Board o directors members (N = 21)

- Research council members (N = 7)

- Diversity council members (N = 7)

- Competency council members (N = 10)

2.4a. Multi-industry healthcare and Hay healthcare

database comparisons:

- Insurance

- Pharmaceuticals

- Medical device

- Biotechnology

- Other general healthcare

2.5a. Review and vetting o:

- BEI integrated transcription and coding

analyses

- Outstanding vs. typical perormance statistical

data analysis outcomes and reports (totalsample, health management ocers, medical

ocers, and nursing ocers)

- Individual reerence group distinguishing data

(entry, mid, and advanced careerists)

- Baseline competencies or early careerists

- Benchmarking results with other health

industry sectors

- Recommended concept and domain

ormulation

- Perormance scaling levels

- Final model denition and ormulation





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development as well as organizational

deployment, assessment, and develop-

ment. The methods or each o these

phases are outlined briefy in the ol-

lowing sections and are summarizedcollectively in Table 1.

ph i: i Ccy

ic scc,

v 1.1

HCLM version 1.1 was developed in

collaboration with ACT, Inc.ormerly

known as American College Testing

(Table 1). The initial model consistedo (1) six competency domains derived

rom a comprehensive search and analy-

ses o the literature and existing health

competency models and (2) a large

number (N = 133) o subcompetencies

that had been identied and specied

or each o the six domains by expert

panels and through modied Delphi

research surveys to the eld at large

(Calhoun et al. 2004). This benchmark

model was urther tested by researchers

at ACT, Inc. and NCHL via a variety o

surveys and expert panels with health

leaders to judge its relevance. This ver-

sion o the model also served as the

basis or Phase II.

ph ii: C sg

i Ccymg, v 2.0

The Phase II research protocol was

based on the oundational work regard-

ing motivation and achievement by

David McClelland and colleagues at

Harvard University and the Massachu-

setts Institute o Technology (McClel-

land, Clark, and Lowell 1976; McClel-

land 1961, 1973, 1988, 1998; Boyatzis

1982; Boyatzis et al. 1996); Daniel

Goleman (1998, 2000); and the prior

research and experience in the eld

o competency modeling by the Hay

Group (Spencer, McClelland, and Spen-

cer 1994). The protocol was reviewed,modied, and subsequently nalized in

November 2003 by our separate expert

panels, including NCHLs board o

directors, Advisory Council on Research

and Evaluation, and Advisory Council

on Core Competencies as well as the

projects Senior Advisory Group. More

than 60 recognized leaders across all

sectors o the industrywith diverseproessional, demographic, and cultural

backgroundsserved on these expert

panels.

Behavioral event interviewing and

analysis.Central to Phase II model de-

velopment was the behavioral event in-

terview (BEI) processa modication o

the critical-incident method originally

developed by Flanagan (1954), ur-

ther elaborated by Dailey (1971), and

codied by McClelland (McClelland,

Clark, and Lowell 1976; McClelland

1998; Spencer, McClelland, and Spencer

1994). The BEI process was developed

as a means or identiying characteristics

that distinguished outstanding per-

ormers in a role or job rom their more

typical counterparts (Boyatzis 2006;2007).

The Phase II BEI process consisted

o an approximately two-hour interview

conducted by an interviewer with a be-

havioral science background trained and

accredited in the use o the McClelland

(1998) methodology. Respondents were

asked to ocus on specic events across

the entire span o their careers. In addi-

tion, the interviewer guided the inter-





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viewee to describe events that occurred

over the past 18 months that were

particularly successul or rustrating.

With advance recorded permission

rom the prospective interviewees perInstitutional Review Board standards,

the interviews were tape recorded and

subsequently transcribed or coding and

analysis by Hay specialists (see Table 1,

2.2c.).

Population sampling.Based on prior

research (Boyatzis 1982; McClelland

1998; Spencer, McClelland, and Spencer1994), it was determined that a sample

o 7580 interviews would be required

or subsequent BEI interpretive analyses

conducted by similarly accredited hu-

man resource consultants, event coders,

analysts, and statisticians. In the BEI

methodology, the unit o analysis is not

the individual but the unique events

outlined by the interviewees that reveal

their specic behaviorswhat they did,

elt, said, or thoughtin relation to the

exhaustive number o important on-the-

job situations probed during the inter-

view (McClelland 1998; Spencer and

Spencer 1993). Typically, hundreds o

behaviors are identied during each in-

terview providing thousands o observa-

tions. Thereore, with a selected sample

o 7080 representatives across the eld,7,000 to 8,000 or more behaviors would

be generated or qualitative and quanti-

tative analyses.

Initially, 105 interviewees were

targeted to allow or the logistical

complexities associated with schedul-

ing the interviews during the prescribed

research period. Ultimately, 84 (80 per-

cent) o the targeted sample interviews

were conducted across roles (executive

and operational management, medi-

cine, nursing), career stages (early, mid,

and advanced), and varying types o

organizations as summarized in the

nal sample prole (Tables 2 and 3). In-terviewees were randomly selected rom

the target population. The predominant

reasons or nonparticipation during

the interview process (12 percent o the

advanced and mid-careerists and 40 per-

cent o the early careerists) were sched-

uling confictsthat is, maternity leave,

sabbatical, and organization policy not

to participate in survey research.To ensure a sample that would in-

clude outstanding health leaders across

the health spectrum, a dual approach

was taken. First, in line with nomination

methods used or and by expert panels

as outlined by Kane (1987) and Boyatzis

(2006), members o the NCHL board

and Competency Council were asked to

identiy 120 mid- and late-career leaders

deemed outstanding in the eld. Mem-

bers could not nominate themselves.

These potential interviewees were then

cross-reerenced to seven national rank-

ings: US News and World ReportHonor

Roll (top 15),Modern Healthcare Inte-

grated Health Systems (top 15), Na-

tional Committee or Quality Assurance

Listing o Top Perorming Healthcare

Plans (top 6), Solucient Award (top 15perormersconsecutive winners in the

prior three years), Public Hospitals Rec-

ognition Awards (top 5), McGaw Prize

(winners within the past ve years), and

Malcolm Baldrige Award (current year).

The merged listing o highly successul

organizations rom these national rank-

ings was purged o duplicates and cross-

reerenced to the list o 120 outstanding

leaders. As a result, 75 persons across





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late and mid-career levels o administra-tion, medicine, and nursing became the

target population or the interviews.

To select the early careerists, the top

ten graduate programs in the U.S. News

and World Reportranking were asked

to identiy a list o high-perorming

graduates within the past three years.

The nominees were also cross-reerenced

to the list o outstanding organizations

with 30 matches or potential interview-

ing. Given the emphasis on early careerleadership development, all 30 o the

persons on this nal nomination listing

became the targeted interview group or

the early careerist population.

Competency identifcation and coding.

In all, more than 10,000 competency

variables were identied by trained

behavioral science coders rom more

than 6,000 pages o BEI transcripts rom

t a B l e 2

Bh e i: s pf

ogz af nb rb

Major provider systems 40

Acute care/academic medical centers 26

Clinics/group practices/HMOs 12

Long-term care acilities/hospices 4

Outpatient clinics 3

Psychiatric acility 1

aThe sample includes 39 (46%) women and 45 (54%) men.

bThe total is more than 84 because two interviewees identied more than one type to characterize their workplaces.

t a B l e 3

Bh e i: s pf by C sg (n = 84)

C sgbCh ec/

o Ch mc Ch ng t

Late Career 26 4 9 39

Mid-Career 18 3 6 27

Early Career 17 1 18

Total 61 8 15 84

aThe sample includes 39 (46%) women and 45 (54%) men.

bLate career = individuals who hold the rank o chie executive ocer or chie operations ocer, chie marketing ocer, chie

nancial ocer, or chie networking ocer and who are in their last health career position; mid career = individuals who have

been employed at least six years and hold a title o at least manager or director; and early career = individuals who have been

employed 15 years in an entry-level managerial position or a management track position





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the total sample (see the summary o

methods in Table 1); the typical tran-

script was 100150 pages long. Critical

incident techniques (Flanagan 1954),

thematic apperception testing (Boyatzis1998; McClelland 1985), and content

analysis o verbal expression (Zullow et

al. 1988) were used by the accredited

and highly consistent coders (see 2.2c.

Table 1) to identiy and categorize the

competencies (both unique and previ-

ously identied competencies). To orm

the nal model concept, the coding

outcomes were then compared with aspecially constructed modication o

the proprietary Hay Group dictionary

o competencies (see www.haygroup.

com), which was derived rom a sample

o more than 100,000 competencies

across various industries. This diction-

ary was constructed to codiy elements

identied in the interviews, reinorcing

the content and construct evidence or

orming the model (Kane 1987; AERA et

al. 1999).

Expert interviews.To augment the nd-

ings rom the BEI methodology, NCHLs

board, research council, and other advi-

sory committees nominated individuals

rom the ollowing three groups in line

with expert judgment nomination pro-

tocols (McClelland 1998; Schippmanet al. 2000; Spencer and Spencer 1993).

Interviews were conducted with the

ollowing people to provide additional

contextual review, analysis, and evi-

dence o validity (Kane 1987):

Seven uturists and health opinion

leaders rom the Institute or Alter-

native Futures, Wharton Center or

Health Management and Economics,

American Board o Internal Medicine,

Health Futures, Institute or the Fu-

ture, Institute or Alternative Futures,

and SG-2

Six leaders rom varied ethnic and cul-tural backgrounds or with recognized

track records promoting diversity in

their organizations (These interviews

were conducted to gain additional

perspective on increasing diversity

among health leadership.)

Eleven representatives rom accredited

graduate programs in health manage-

ment and business

Analyses o benchmark data.The model

was also benchmarked against exist-

ing competencies in research models

developed or other health, pharmaceu-

tical, and insurance sectors as well as or

complex organizations across industry

sectors. These analyses enabled the

NCHL model and the results o the BEI

analyses to be compared to healthcare

in its broadest sense as well as to top-

perorming organizations regardless o

industry.

Concept ormation and model development.

The nal review or version 2.0 was

conducted by a 15-member work group

including academicians, practitioners,

educational psychologists, learningconsultants, data analysts, and compe-

tency modeling researchers. The panel

reviewed all qualitative and quantita-

tive data analyses. The BEI data were

reviewed urther or additional evidence

o specic and/or unique health indus-

try knowledge and skill competencies

to use in building the behavioral

constructs and levels that make up each

competency. The primary goal or this





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step in the process was to develop a

behaviorally ocused competency rame-

work that realistically refected strategic,

operational, and cultural orces in the

current environment. Key steps in thisnal analysis and design process are

summarized in Table 1.

As previously discussed, the nal 26

competencies were scaled to three to six

levels o perormance. Each level con-

tains the specic explanatory behaviors

that are included in the competency and

can be used or observable assessment.

d i s C u s s i o n

Version 2.0 o the HLCM provides a

useul resource or persons seeking a

successul career in health management,

the educational programs assisting

them, and organizations identiying and

developing an eective cadre o manag-

ers and leaders in the eld. The model

has been developed with careul atten-

tion to psychometric principles, and it

is based on a long history o prior work

and precedents that have been used

eectively in other industries. Substan-

tial eorts have gone into translating

competencies or the healthcare indus-

try. Because o its rigor and behavioral

ocus, the model oers an important

additional dimension to education,

guidance, and development o utureleaders in the eld.

Version 2.0 is current rather than

nal. At this stage o development, ad-

ditional research and hypotheses testing

are needed to urther validate the model

or application in identiying, devel-

oping, credentialing, and promoting

healthcare leaders.

NCHL is currently sponsoring a

number o national demonstration

projects in graduate education, nurse-

team leadership, diversity, and total

leadership system development using

the HLCM. The research associated with

these initiatives will be used to urtherdevelop and rene the model to assess

the impact o competency-based devel-

opment and assessment in the eld o

healthcare. NCHL is seeking additional

opportunities to expand the use o the

model and welcomes discussion o col-

laborative research. The HLCM can also

serve as a catalyst or initiating continu-

ous dialogue and refection regardingessential behaviorally based attributes

and skills or leadership in the industry

across career progression stages and

across the proessions in the decades

ahead.

a C k n o w l e d G m e n t s

Special recognition and appreciation

are extended to Marita Decker, Future-

Course LLC, and Susan R. Swing, PhD,

Accreditation Council or Graduate

Medical Education or their contribu-

tions and ongoing advice and counsel

throughout the identication, concept

specication, and research phases o the

NCHL Competency Model development

initiative. Also, the authors wish to rec-

ognize the many contributions o their

colleague and coauthor Lorayne Dollett,who passed away July 9, 2008.

Funds or this project were provided

by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and The

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The

thoughts expressed within are solely the

responsibility o the authors.

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P R A C T I T I O N E R A P P L I C A T I O N

Tim Rice, FACHE, president and chie executive ofcer, Moses Cone Health System,

Greensboro, North Carolina

The National Center or Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) is attempting to dene a

core set o competencies required to be a healthcare leader in the twenty-rst cen-

tury. This article describes the reasons and the process by which the current version

o the NCHL Leadership Competency Model, Version 2, has been developed. Those

o us in the eld o healthcare delivery may look at this research and its model and

either acknowledge it as an ambitious academic endeavor or compare our current

and past experiences in leadership practices with those described in the competencymodel. I preer to do the latter and to contrast the past and current perormance o

my organization to the best practices proposed by NCHL.

Across our proession we have been trained in various programs and have had

various experiences, which have helped us to develop the skills to perorm our cur-

rent roles. However, I believe we have not been held to rigorous standards o training

requirements and skill development, which would help us to lead our organization

in an exemplary ashion. Five years ago at Moses Cone Health System (MCHS), we

acknowledged this decit and rst enrolled eight senior leaders in the NCHL Ad-

vanced Leadership Development Program. At that time, the NCHL was only begin-

ning its exploration o leadership models, but it teamed with respected entities such

as the University o Michigan Business School to provide executive teams with a

high-level learning experience. Through that shared experience, the senior leadership

o MCHS started to develop an increased passion or leadership training and devel-

opment. This led to a renewed emphasis on internal leadership programming or

supervisors, managers, department heads, and vice presidentsall levels o leader-

ship across the system. Participation in this curriculum was required and became

part o our annual evaluations and incentive compensation systems. Each year senior

management worked with our organizational development department to design

curricula, which would help to advance a particular set o skills and competencies or

the aorementioned group o leaders.

Interestingly, much o the impetus or this eort came by being aware o what

organizations outside healthcare were doing to use leadership development to reach

a strategic end. It is only recently that we have become more aware o the NCHL

competency model and have judged our perormance against that model. Specical-

ly, we have used this model to indicate current gaps in our leadership training and to

consider where we will ocus our training eorts over the next two years. Compared

with the model, we believe we have spent a great deal o time in the areas o trans-

ormation and people and less work in the area o execution, particularly around the

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What evidence do we have that improved leadership competency adds value? We

attribute this eort to many o our successes in the past couple o years. For example,

we have seen more than 350 leaders embrace quality improvement tools with an en-

thusiasm that has resulted in a 10 percent year-to-year decrease in our mortality rate.

We have also seen a dramatic increase in employee satisaction with their departmentleadership, as measured consistently over the past ve years. The ormer eort has re-

sulted rom our teams working on analytical thinking, nancial skills, and inorma-

tion seeking, and the latter rom their work on people skills, particularly in the areas

o team leadership and talent development.

We believe a ocus on leadership competencies is one key way MCHS will be suc-

cessul in achieving its strategic goals. The proposed NCHL Leadership Competency

Model and its related leadership programming have provided helpul assistance in

guiding our leadership teams eorts toward this end.

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