title: Soft-leadership competencies for today's healthcare finance executives.
abstract: With the healthcare industry changing rapidly, organizations seek finance leaders who have skills that go beyond traditional expertise in revenue and expenses. These additional competencies fall under the heading of soft-leadership skills and include the ability to be strategy-oriented, agile, passionate, inspirational, influential, communicative, dependable, driven, integrative, and engaged. Networking, participation in a mentoring program, and continuing education provide avenues for finance leaders to develop these sorts of skills.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Madden
mesh_terms: D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D007857:Leadership; D011361:Professional Competence