BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES NEEDED FOR LEADING CLAS STANDARDS COMPETENT ORGANIZATIONS: A DELPHI STUDY
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
14-1-2021 3:00 PM
End Date
14-1-2021 3:20 PM
Abstract
Before this study, the core leadership competencies executive behavioral health leaders must demonstrate to lead a CLAS Standards competent organization and workforce were unknown. The purposes of the presentation are two. First, to discuss a qualitative Delphi dissertation research study identifying the core leadership competencies executive behavioral health leaders must demonstrate to lead CLAS Standards competent organizations and workforces effectively. Second, to discuss what the study meant to the growth of the lead author. Twenty-one expert behavioral health leaders located in the United States participated in the study (N = 7 for the pilot study and N = 14 for full panel study). Analyses of data gathered from experts across two rounds of the pilot study and four rounds of the main study revealed 15 leadership competencies were very or extremely critical to leading a CLAS Standards competent organization. While 11 of the 15 identified competencies were very similar to existing competency frameworks identified by the HLA and NCHL, four unique competencies emerged: cultural competence and adaptation, collaboration and teamwork, care planning and care coordination, and systems oriented practice, with the two most critical competencies being (a) cultural competence and adaption, and (b) collaboration and teamwork.
Keywords
CLAS standards, core leadership competencies, executive behavioral health leaders
ORCID ID
orcid.org/0000-0003-4832-5253
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES NEEDED FOR LEADING CLAS STANDARDS COMPETENT ORGANIZATIONS: A DELPHI STUDY
Before this study, the core leadership competencies executive behavioral health leaders must demonstrate to lead a CLAS Standards competent organization and workforce were unknown. The purposes of the presentation are two. First, to discuss a qualitative Delphi dissertation research study identifying the core leadership competencies executive behavioral health leaders must demonstrate to lead CLAS Standards competent organizations and workforces effectively. Second, to discuss what the study meant to the growth of the lead author. Twenty-one expert behavioral health leaders located in the United States participated in the study (N = 7 for the pilot study and N = 14 for full panel study). Analyses of data gathered from experts across two rounds of the pilot study and four rounds of the main study revealed 15 leadership competencies were very or extremely critical to leading a CLAS Standards competent organization. While 11 of the 15 identified competencies were very similar to existing competency frameworks identified by the HLA and NCHL, four unique competencies emerged: cultural competence and adaptation, collaboration and teamwork, care planning and care coordination, and systems oriented practice, with the two most critical competencies being (a) cultural competence and adaption, and (b) collaboration and teamwork.
Comments
Results are partially from research conducted for Dr. DuMont's dissertation.