Healthcare Leadership Final Paper.
DHA 807/Teaching Practicums
Healthcare Leadership
Alaa Abdallah, Bilal Ali, Desmond Adebayo, Oladipo Aina, Hidron Adanandus
Dr. Terri Cornwell
06/28/2021
1
, Healthcare Leadership Final Paper.
Introduction
Leadership is the art or process of influencing people, so they willingly and
enthusiastically move towards achieving a goal (Jasper and Mansour, 2012). The authors further
defined leadership as a state of flux (constantly changing), that irrespective of perspectives taken
to describe or explain it, is about relationships. It has undergone a series of transformations over
100 years of modern management.
When the Panthers group was formed at the start of the summer semester for the DHA
2020/2021 cohort, we all had different approaches to getting our work collated and submitted.
Each one of us had a different writing style, academic background, and personality profile. We
had to blend all these aspects of group dynamics to achieve the common goal of understanding,
executing, and merging our varied talents to accomplish the objective – submitting our
assignments in good time. That was an exercise in leadership formation itself. However, these
intricate patterns of group formation and execution were thankfully achieved without much
headache, as we all were objective in our approach to the tasks ahead of us, and we all warmed
up to each other.
We quickly identified members of the group who could lead the communication and
submission (Hidron), the frequent Zoom set-ups (Desmond and Hidron), the group cohesion and
light-siding (Bilal), the far-flung member (Alaa), and the corrector (Dipo). However, all these
traits quickly blended, as when one team member was noticeably not working up to par, other
team members promptly stepped in to fill the void.
The steps involved in developing a graduate-level course require research and in-depth analysis,
and detailed writing; all members of the group always partook in these varied roles. We then
came together at our Zoom sessions and harmonized all that we had been able to come up with.
The one issue that proved problematic, at times, was that we were all situated in different time
zones. Hidron was in Texas, Desmond was in Nevada, Bilal and Dipo were in Maryland, and
Alaa was in faraway Palestine!
Noticeably, we have inevitably fostered relationships while developing this graduate-
level course in healthcare leadership. We have realized that life at times gets in the way of
achieving group goals, especially when one group member falls ill, there is a life event (birth or
death) in one members' family, or a natural occurrence (war or territorial aggression). No doubt,
the process of working collaboratively to develop a graduate-level course in healthcare
2
DHA 807/Teaching Practicums
Healthcare Leadership
Alaa Abdallah, Bilal Ali, Desmond Adebayo, Oladipo Aina, Hidron Adanandus
Dr. Terri Cornwell
06/28/2021
1
, Healthcare Leadership Final Paper.
Introduction
Leadership is the art or process of influencing people, so they willingly and
enthusiastically move towards achieving a goal (Jasper and Mansour, 2012). The authors further
defined leadership as a state of flux (constantly changing), that irrespective of perspectives taken
to describe or explain it, is about relationships. It has undergone a series of transformations over
100 years of modern management.
When the Panthers group was formed at the start of the summer semester for the DHA
2020/2021 cohort, we all had different approaches to getting our work collated and submitted.
Each one of us had a different writing style, academic background, and personality profile. We
had to blend all these aspects of group dynamics to achieve the common goal of understanding,
executing, and merging our varied talents to accomplish the objective – submitting our
assignments in good time. That was an exercise in leadership formation itself. However, these
intricate patterns of group formation and execution were thankfully achieved without much
headache, as we all were objective in our approach to the tasks ahead of us, and we all warmed
up to each other.
We quickly identified members of the group who could lead the communication and
submission (Hidron), the frequent Zoom set-ups (Desmond and Hidron), the group cohesion and
light-siding (Bilal), the far-flung member (Alaa), and the corrector (Dipo). However, all these
traits quickly blended, as when one team member was noticeably not working up to par, other
team members promptly stepped in to fill the void.
The steps involved in developing a graduate-level course require research and in-depth analysis,
and detailed writing; all members of the group always partook in these varied roles. We then
came together at our Zoom sessions and harmonized all that we had been able to come up with.
The one issue that proved problematic, at times, was that we were all situated in different time
zones. Hidron was in Texas, Desmond was in Nevada, Bilal and Dipo were in Maryland, and
Alaa was in faraway Palestine!
Noticeably, we have inevitably fostered relationships while developing this graduate-
level course in healthcare leadership. We have realized that life at times gets in the way of
achieving group goals, especially when one group member falls ill, there is a life event (birth or
death) in one members' family, or a natural occurrence (war or territorial aggression). No doubt,
the process of working collaboratively to develop a graduate-level course in healthcare
2
