Books
Working with Distressed Physicians: A Guide for Physician Leaders
In today's fast-paced healthcare industry, leaders are tasked with creating environments that best serve patients while also supporting their colleagues. Working with Distressed Physicians: A Guide for Physician Leaders is an invaluable resource designed for physician leaders who face the challenge of fostering a positive workplace while managing distressed and disruptive behaviors among their peers.
This comprehensive guide serves as a blueprint for colleagues and administrative leaders within healthcare settings; and a beacon of hope for distressed physicians themselves. Drawing from lived experiences, the authors provide essential tools and insights to help you navigate these challenging situations, leading to personal achievement and advancements within your unit. By focusing on self and team improvement, you set an example of excellence in healthcare delivery and positively impact the larger healthcare landscape.
The Great Workplace: How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why it Matters
In this book, authors Jennifer Robin and Michael Burchell explore the model of a great workplace—one which fosters employee trust, pride in what they do, and enjoyment in the people they work with. They answer the fundamental question, "What is the business value of creating a great workplace?" and bring the definition of a great workplace alive with anecdotes, best practices, and quotes from employees working at the best workplaces in the U.S.
If your organization is struggling with the challenges of leveraging human capital, discover why some companies have what it takes to be great.
No Excuses: How You Can Turn Any Workplace into a Great One
This follow-up guide to The Great Workplace reveals the most common excuses managers use for why they can't create a great workplace and pokes holes in every single excuse. Whether the reasons involve the organization's leadership, employees, environment, or any other factor, the authors Jennifer Robin and Michael Burchell explain that if managers lead people properly, they can create a great workplace. Learn how managers can interrupt their own negative thought patterns and instead create lasting change, and they describe how great workplaces have surmounted very real difficulties with aplomb.
Creating a place where people want to work and want to succeed is the primary key to success for every manager. No Excuses shows that managers in any organization can transform their workplace—if they'll only get out of their own way.
A Life in Balance: Finding Meaning in a Chaotic World
Are you working more but enjoying it less? Are you searching for greater fulfillment, significance, and meaning? Are you simply looking for a better sense of balance in your life? If you have identified with any of these statements you are not alone. Many of us experience an absence of personal significance in our lives; we have a sense that something is "horribly out of whack."
But, there is hope. We can have successful, rewarding careers and still experience richly textured, fulfilled personal lives. This work examines the confusion and myth of life balance, offers a new paradigm of balance, and illuminates a path for busy professionals and managers to follow to achieve real balance and deeper meaning in their lives. Drawing from business theory, existing and original research, and the authors' own consulting experiences, A Life in Balance is an engaging, thoughtful, and readable guide that will help readers unfold and create their own balance experience.