Main description:

Today's healthcare leaders are facing challenges unlike ever before. New healthcare laws, reimbursement models and regulations unnerve even the most senior of leaders resulting in increasingly shorter tenures of those in leadership positions. The modern healthcare leader needs to be increasingly resilient but all relevant to their organizations and the industry.

Phoenix Leadership: The Healthcare Executive's Strategy for Relevance and Resilience provides a brand new, innovative concept, that of the Phoenix Leader, with proven strategies and approaches to evolve your leadership approach to one that is flexible, powerful and effective. The attributes of the Phoenix Leader include:

A strong sense of self

Effective interpersonal relationships

Ability to build an empowered workforce

Innovative

Resilience

This book introduces a brand-new paradigm created by Val Gokenbach for leadership in complex organizations and provides effective strategies that will guide leaders in the healthcare field. Val possesses a doctoral degree in Management and organizational leadership and has been a healthcare executive for over 40 years. She is also a leadership consultant, professor, executive coach and author on leadership topics. You, as a healthcare leader, will learn to reinvent yourself by putting her proven concepts into effect to become a Phoenix in your organization.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Status of Leadership in Healthcare

Challenges in the healthcare industry

Ineffective leadership responses to challenges

Organizational effects of ineffective leadership

Professional outcomes of ineffective leadership

Common reasons for leadership failures

The case for Phoenix Leadership

Chapter 2: What is a Phoenix Leader?

Story of the Phoenix

Chapter 3: Attributes of the Phoenix Leader: strong sense of self

Concept of personal values

Authenticity

Personal ego

Chapter 4: Effective interpersonal relationships

Emotional intelligence

Social intelligence

Strong communication skills

Chapter 5: Building an empowered workforce

Empowered workforce defined

o Empowerment and its importance to healthcare

o Effects of empowerment on the workforce

o Building an infrastructure for empowerment

o Empowerment and the Phoenix leader

Chapter 6: Interdisciplinary Team Leadership in Healthcare

Team building and leading skills

o Modern team theory

o Leading effective teams

o Interdisciplinary approaches to team leadership

o Phoenix leader and teams

Role modeling

High level of visibility

Chapter 7: The Phoenix, an asset to the organization

Innovation

Change agency

o Creating a shared vision

o Assessing the right time for change

o Evaluation of readiness change

o Cultural competence

Knowledge of the business

Politically savvy

Relentless to the approach to problems

Effective coaching of subordinates

Chapter 8: The Phoenix leader, personal attributes

Consistent

o Consistency defined

o Why is it important?

o Behaviors and strategies presented to improve consistency

Fearless

o Fearlessness defined

o Why is it important?

o Behaviors and strategies presented to become fearless

Honest

o Honesty defined

o Why is it important?

o Behaviors and strategies presented to improve honesty

Assertive

o Assertiveness defined

o Why is it important?

o Behaviors and strategies presented to improve the ability to be assertive

Tireless

o Tirelessness defined

o Why is it important?

o Behaviors and strategies presented to improve stamina

Inclusive

o Inclusivity defined

o Why is it important?

o Behaviors and strategies presented to improve inclusivity

Health and wellness

o Holistic health defined

o Why is it important?

o Behaviors and strategies to improve health and wellness

Chapter 9: Behaviors of the Phoenix Leader

Visibility and accessibility

Proactive vs. reactive

Share appropriate information and metrics

Consistently communicate vision and goals of organization

Chapter 10: Becoming a Phoenix Leader

Self-reflection

Continuous evaluation of goals and strategies

Lifelong learning

Mentors

Development of effective personal brand

Chapter 11: Conclusion