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2024 Prose Award Winner for Nursing and Allied Health Services Category!
"This book is a comprehensive, well-researched, and well-presented guide for nascent and existing leaders of public health care who navigate the complex, fragmented, often underfunded, and rapidly changing system. It is a most valuable resource." ---Doody's Review Service, 5 stars
Leadership in Practice prepares leaders for the unpredictability, complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty they will face while leading public health and healthcare organizations and teams. It equips leaders with practical, sustainable, and universal skills, abilities, and intangibles needed to thrive in a constantly-evolving environment.
Building on a solid theoretical foundation, Leadership in Practice addresses the challenges leaders face in many contexts by exploring the skills and behaviors necessary for the effective practice of leadership. Integrating the most relevant leadership theories, their history, evidence, and application in public health and healthcare, chapters focus on the essential competencies that leaders in public health and healthcare must master, including effective dialogue, ethical leadership and moral courage, systems thinking, strategic thinking and analysis, and emotional intelligence. The textbook discusses the many challenges leaders face, including change leadership, developing an equity mindset, effective leadership during organizational crises, and meaningful engagement with the communities served. Case studies relevant to public health and healthcare examine topics such as leadership during COVID-19, Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, community engagement and team building, hiring diverse personnel, preventing burnout, and more to provide lessons learned from real-world examples.
Leadership in Practice brings together a diverse array of leaders and a wide range of voices to impart wisdom and share unique perspectives and experiences from public health and healthcare settings. This authoritative resource is essential for anyone training in public health, healthcare management, and related health professions, and illustrates why it is critical to learn from leaders who possess different worldviews, experiences, and training backgrounds. Leadership in Practice provides you with expert insight on building the right leadership framework and developing a meaningful leadership style for your own leadership practice.
Key Features:
Describes the core principles, skills, traits, and behaviors for effective leadership in practice
Includes engaging case studies demonstrating leadership intangibles, applications, and real-world context in public health and healthcare settings
Builds self-awareness through self-assessments and reflection exercises
Provides wisdom and insight from notable and diverse leaders in the field
Leads students and professionals to the development of their own framework upon which to build and continuously evolve their leadership practice
Contents
About the Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Part I: Leadership Basics: Skills, Traits, and Behaviors
1. Dialogue: A Foundational Skill for Effective Health Leadership
2. Moral Courage in Public Health Leadership
3. Systems Thinking in Public Health
4. Strategic Thinking: Rationale, Process, and Behaviors
5. Emotional Intelligence
Part II: Key Leadership Theories and Their Application
6. The Situational Approach to Leadership
7. Transformational Leadership
8. Authentic Leadership
9. Servant Leadership
10 Adaptive Leadership
Part III: The Context and Challenges of Leadership Practice
11. Leading Change
12. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Intercultural Competence in Leadership
13. Managing and Resolving Conflict
14. Crisis Leadership
15. Building and Leading Teams: Essential Approaches and Practical Tools for Improving the Health of Populations
16. Talent Management: A Leadership Imperative
17. Creating Effective Public Health Messengers
Part IV: Putting it All Together: Your Leadership Practice
18. The Evolution and Development of a Leader
19. Mentoring and Trusted Advisors
20. Leadership Intangibles
21. Creating Your Leadership Framework
22. Learning from Experience
