Check out this month’s selections for our “What’s On Your Bookshelf?” series from Health Administration Press, the publishing division of the Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives. As one of the largest publishers in the field of healthcare management, we have titles for healthcare professionals at every stage of their career and are excited to share our three newest releases. Check them out today.
Feelin’ Alright: How the Message in the Music Can Make Healthcare Healthier
Feelin’ Alright leverages the emotional power of song lyrics to inspire healthcare executives to envision and build a more accessible, high-quality and equitable healthcare system. Using music as a metaphor, author Stephen Klasko, MD, encourages readers to examine what is problematic in the existing healthcare model and to take tangible steps toward a more consumer-centered healthcare experience.
Dr. Klasko shares his experiences as a physician, a health system CEO, and a university president and dean, and now he’s bridging the gap between academic health systems and digital health innovators and entrepreneurs. Each chapter features his multifaceted perspective and is anchored with a song that reflects the chapter’s central themes.
Topics covered include the power of partnerships between healthcare providers and technology companies, why consumers are starting to rebel against traditional healthcare, what radical changes are needed to decrease health inequity, and the emerging technologies that address social determinants of health.
Feelin’ Alright will motivate healthcare executives to take the lead in building a better healthcare system.
Leading with Your Upper Brain: How to Create the Behaviors That Unlock Performance Excellence
Research shows that an individual leader’s behavior is the most important predictor of a team’s success. Leading with Your Upper Brain helps you understand why. More important, it provides an innovative framework that helps you shift your behavior in ways that help employees tap into their upper-brain resources for growth, development and higher cognitive function that drive higher levels of performance.
The authors use cutting-edge neuroscience research to illustrate how a positive connection with their leader builds trust, instills hope and otherwise affects team members’ brain function in a way that leads to overall team success. They share a modern, science-based approach to performance management and leadership development that fits any organization type or size. Each chapter offers key takeaways, tips, resources and thought-provoking questions that will help you put the principles into practice.
A few insights you’ll learn in Leading with Your Upper Brain include how neuroscience allows us to measure soft concepts like trust, engagement and happiness in real time; how upper-brain and lower-brain thinking affect performance outcomes; which leadership behaviors encourage higher-brain thinking and boost team engagement; and how to help team members discover meaning, value and purpose in their work.
Mentor, Coach, Lead to Peak Professional Performance
Healthcare leaders do their best work when they are surrounded by wise people who support them, share power and influence, and give them honest feedback from a place of objectivity.
Mentor, Coach, Lead to Peak Professional Performance explains why it is important to build a network of advisors and pay it forward by extending advice and support to others. Author Laurie K. Baedke, FACHE, provides practical guidance on how to build relationships that foster both individual development and organizational success. Readers will learn the distinctions between mentoring, sponsoring and coaching partnerships. They will also understand which circumstances are most suited for each type of collaboration. The book is filled with tips and tools on how to make the most of these powerful connections.
Topics covered include how mentors and sponsors can help you grow your skills and advance your career, how coaching can enhance the relationship between a manager and their team and drive powerful performance outcomes, how to create a mentoring culture in your organization, and how sponsorship and mentoring support diversity, equity and inclusion.