Explore 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. Check them out today.
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 the importance of building 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.
Lead the Way in Five Minutes a Day: Sparking High Performance in Yourself and Your Team
You can’t prepare for every situation, but you can be prepared to lead. When the next challenge arises, the right approach will help you rise to the occasion and guide your team to success.
This book skips the complex theories and jargon and gets right to practical solutions. You will learn how to develop skills that can be applied immediately to meet any challenge.
Eleven chapters cover real-life topics like communication, diversity and workplace culture. Each chapter begins with a self-assessment guide so you can identify relevant strengths to develop and address opportunities for growth. Throughout the book, you will find coaching tips to get the most from your team, reflection questions to help you explore fresh approaches to current situations and ideas for sharing strategies with colleagues to help them grow as leaders with you.
Career Opportunities in Consultancy Bundle
This bundle offers a road map for early careerists and executives contemplating a career in consulting. The books walk readers through key considerations, exploring the essential role of healthcare consultants and what truly makes a consultant exceptional. Author Scott Mason shares practical guidance for making informed career decisions about becoming a professional consultant and firsthand accounts from those who have navigated the road to consultancy.
The bundle includes two volumes, The Healthcare Consultant's Handbook: Career Opportunities and Best Practices and Executive Turned Consultant: Transitioning from Experienced Executive to Trusted Advisor in Healthcare.
The Healthcare Consultant’s Handbook: Career Opportunities and Best Practices explores the role of the independent consultant, shares what to expect when working for a consulting firm and reveals what it takes to be an exceptional consultant. The book identifies various forms of consulting and consulting firms—profiling several prominent companies—and provides strategies for determining what type of firm is the best fit.
Executive Turned Consultant: Transitioning from Experienced Executive to Trusted Advisor in Healthcare provides a road map for executives contemplating a move into management consulting. Topics covered in the book include why and how to conduct a mid-career assessment, how consulting compares with executive management, common mistakes executives make when launching a consulting career, and the pros and cons of joining an existing firm versus going into solo practice.