Leadership Shadowing Experience

Leadership Paper – Part 2
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Leadership Paper – Part 2
Sarah Krevans, the CEO of Sutter Health is a leader with a proven track record given her massive success at the helm of the organization. Sutter Health is one of the leading organizations in the health sector given that it serves more than 3 million patients primarily from Northern California. The organization’s vision is to make healthcare accessible and affordable to all Americans while its mission is to create an integrated healthcare system that delivers comprehensive services and high quality programs that are customized to the diverse needs of its target population. Her innovative leadership style has made her an effective communicator as seen through her interactions with both her staff and her clients. She has a steady communication style that is people-oriented rather than task-oriented (De Vries et al., 2010). She is very cooperative, patient, friendly, and relaxed but very thorough in whatever she does. She is a good listener and a great team player. As the primary leader in the organization, she is the vision-bearer and always seeks to ring every other stakeholder on board (De Vries et al., 2010). She is also very democratic in her decision-making process as she tries to embrace different views as much as she can before making the final decision.
Throughout the course of the shadowing experience, several observations were made regarding Sarah Krevans’ leadership style. For example, in terms of her relationship with her staff, she was seen is being very cordial in her approach. She held virtual meetings with her staff and also sends regular emails to her junior employees to informing them of various developments and also collecting their views on different issues in the organization. She is very op...