Wendy Leebov's essentials for great personal leadership
Subtitle: no-nonsense solutions with gratifying results
By: Wendy Leebov.
Publisher: Health Forum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9781556483516; 9781556483523
Subjects: Health services administration.; Leadership.
Work titles: Essentials for great personal leadership
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-105) and index.
Table of contents: value: Walking the leadership tightrope. Effective leaders must learn how to be empathetic, supportive bosses while influencing staff members to make necessary and often difficult changes; value: Four ways to get a grip. Better time management, improved concentration and breakthrough communication with problem co-workers can go a long way toward reducing stress. Here's how to do it; value: Inviting the soul to work. Many employees choose to work in a hospital because they want to make a difference. Use that motivation to energize and inspire them; value: How do you say thanks? The single greatest motivator of employees is appreciation. Use it genuinely and frequently, and you'll see performance improve; value: Healing a troubled relationship. If two team members are at odds with each other, wasting time and sapping energy from the group, insist that they sit down and talk it out; value: The meeting meter. Have staff members evaluate meetings at their end so you can run future meetings more efficiently; value: E-mail etiquette. E-mail can save valuable time and greatly improve efficiency, but misusing it causes interpersonal problems that drain everyone's energy and time; value: Starts with me. Give employees permission to stop problem behavior among colleagues as soon as it starts; value: Healthy respect. An acknowledgment of the essential dignity of all, healthy respect can transform a contentious environment into a healing one; value: The management coach. Leaders who effectively develop their managers enhance the organization, improve their own performance and ease their burden; value: A five-point plan for breakthroughs. Executives need to lead with courage and example if they are going to overcome entrenched mind-sets.