You have recommended to read leadership books. Many are written based on the reflections and experience of a single individual. What should you take form these books? What can you learn from activities of a single individual? What should you do or perhaps what shouldn’t you do? I recently read two very different books but … Continue reading Leadership Style – What To Do, An Example
You have been recommended to read leadership books. Many are written based on the reflections and experiences of a single individual. What should you take from such books? What can you learn from activities of a single individual? What should you do, or perhaps, what shouldn’t you do? I recently read two very different books … Continue reading Leadership Style – What Not To Do, An Example
As head of the department, you want to take stock of your faculty members. You want to ensure that the faculty are performing at their maximum potential. The current system doesn’t seem to have a real handle on performance and, if anything, seems to have led to disenfranchisement. How do you create a system that … Continue reading Performance Management
You have developed an agenda for change. But now it’s time to put the plan into practice. You’ve engaged your team in discussion about strategies to encourage change and enhance individual performance. Many argue you need to tie performance to compensation, while others state the key to performance is punishment and singling out poor performers. … Continue reading Incentivizing Performance
Your clinical group lacks a strategic plan. You are asked by members of your group to allow them to have input into your plans for its future. It occurs to you that one approach to develop, gain feedback, and communicate a shared agenda for change would be to bring people together at a retreat or … Continue reading Vision, Mission, Values and Strategic Direction (Planning for a Retreat)
You have started as the head of a clinical group. During the selection process, you articulated several important changes, both short- and long-term, needed for the group. However, you realize many of the members in the team see different priorities. How do you bring everyone onto the same page? To be a transformational leader, an … Continue reading Laying the Groundwork: Developing an Agenda for Change
You have been appointed as the head of a clinical department. You don’t officially transition into the role for three months, but already you are receiving advice from the other leaders on how you should lead. Your predecessor stresses how important it is for you to get along with everyone. A respected physician at the … Continue reading Leadership Style
PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR CLINICAL LEADERS 