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Characteristics Of Carilion Clinic

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This paper will discuss the leadership styles and traits of the leader of the Marketing Communication department of Carilion Clinic. The textbook Leadership lists the five major leadership traits as intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity, and sociability (Northouse, 2016, p.23) It is the author’s belief that the leader possesses each one of these traits and uses them well when needed. “Leaders with the best results do not rely on only one leadership style; they use many or most of them in a given week – seamlessly and in a different measure – depending on the business situation” (Goleman, 2011, p.41). The leader was the author’s direct supervisor for many years. The author will explain how the leader used various types of leadership styles and traits during the time while their department went through many restructuring changes and tough situations.
Carilion Clinic is a not–for–profit health care organization founded in 1899 that is headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia. Carilion has a comprehensive network of seven hospitals and over seventy primary and specialty physician practices in western Virginia (“About Carilion Clinic,” 2017). The region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center is located at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Carilion provides quality health care for nearly one million Virginians and is the region’s largest employer with over twelve thousand employees and six hundred eighty five physicians (“About Carilion Clinic,” 2017). Carilion seeks to

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