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Accelerate Success
Fast Track Success Through Strategic Alignment There are many important components to a successful onboarding program but the key starting point is alignment with your immediate supervisor. If alignment is not properly established from the beginning, the train will...
Want to Progress?
Build Key Relationships As leaders progress up the executive ladder, their ability to build effective relationships becomes much more important to their success. There is a delicate balance to be struck between being viewed as successful based on your experience as...
Drive Advancement in Your Organization
Are you creating and executing a roadmap that will assist you in moving up within your organization? The whole concept of internal transition or advancement for executives I find is often neglected. Like overall career planning, without a roadmap, executives have no...
Investing in Nursing Leadership
As the health care system confronts the need to change and adapt in the new era, leadership is required throughout the entire organization. Nursing Leaders are the centerpiece of care delivery and are extraordinarily vital and influential in carrying out the mission...
Leaders Plan to Win
The majority of us plan for our children’s college education, or to get married or stay single but unfortunately very few executives plan their careers. Many potentially successful executives fail to climb the executive ladder because they don’t plan where they want...
A Quality Every Great Leader Must Have
When you think of an --Effective Leader-- what comes to mind? You might picture someone who never lets their temper get out of control, no matter what problems they are facing. Or you might think of someone who has the complete trust of their staff, listens to their...
When Should a Hospital CEO Give Notice?
For years now, turnover rates for CEOs in the healthcare industry have been high. While they peaked at 20 percent in 2013, even today these rates remain decisively higher than in other industries. In the ever-evolving world of healthcare, it can be challenging for...
The Benefits of Executive Coaching
Are You Ready to Embrace the Possibilities? Coaching comes in many forms but the goal is to help you become the very best version of yourself as a leader, executive, and whole person. Executive coaching is like a blend of therapy, strategic discussion, and athletic...
Compensation Strategies in the Healthcare Industry
Compensation comprises everything from salaries to bonuses to stock options and it’s a subject with many perspectives in the healthcare industry. An Executive Compensation Survey in 2014 sought those divided opinions from over 400 respondents and the results were...
How do Healthcare Executives Define “Population Health?”
Today, the concept of population health is more important in the healthcare industry than ever before. It has played a large role in many healthcare trends from payer-provider collaboration to hospital-community partnerships. Yet it remains a somewhat subjective term...
How to Understand Rising Costs in the Healthcare Industry
Becker’s Hospital Review recently published a comprehensive roundup of statistics related to rising healthcare costs. This week’s blog looks at some of the key takeaways. With each passing year, healthcare spending in the United States has continued to rise and 2015...
Accelerate Success: The Power of Executive Onboarding
The first few weeks and months of an executive’s tenure are critical. Getting it right can dramatically accelerate the transformation of a new recruit or promotion into a fully functioning business leader. But getting it wrong can be very costly. In fact, recent...
How Kaiser and Lakeland Health Approach Innovation by Focusing on People
For Dr. Loren Hamel and Dr. Benjamin Chu, the key to innovation within the healthcare industry lies with people. Dr. Hamel serves as CEO of Lakeland Health, an organization responsible for numerous hospitals, practices, and clinics across Southwestern Michigan. Dr....
Prepare for Success
Early in my 30 year career in executive recruitment and coaching, I was responsible for recruiting and training sales executives at NCH Corporation. I find my background in sales training to be extremely helpful as I work with executives in transition. When I was in...
What Traits Mark the Ideal Healthcare CEO?
Hospitals & Health Networks (H&HN), a publication of the American Hospital Association (AHA), featured an article this month on the traits needed to be a successful CEO in today’s environment. This week, in the second part of a two-part blog post, we’ll look...
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