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Benefits of Diversity in the Workplace

The Benefits of Diversity in the Workplace

The long asserted claim that diversity benefits workplaces and outcomes has, in recent years, become axiom as study after study highlights the many ways in which qualities like…

Political Checkpoint Webinar

Our friends at Leavitt Partners hosted a webinar for a reflection on the latest developments of COVID-19 and the frame it puts around the 2020 election and the health care…

What the Best Associations Know About Strategy

What the Best Associations Know About Strategy

Association leaders recognize the challenges of today’s landscape when it comes to building a strong, collaborative community of like-minded individuals. Competition for membership can be tight; many associations…

Importance of Rural Hospitals

The Importance of Rural Hospitals

Rural hospitals have been facing several challenges over the last decade. Reduced rural population numbers, an increase of uninsured patients, recruitment difficulties, equipment underuse, and reimbursement regulation have…

Employee Volunteer Programs

Employee Volunteer Programs

Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” A number of employers are now combining…

Job Satisfaction

Job Satisfaction

Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw was known for his disdain for the upper class and for speaking out against what he saw as an unfair distribution of wealth…

Nominating New Board Members

When a board finds itself in the position of needing to elect a new general member or committee member, it might seem like a confusing process; however, it…

Electing New Board Members

Electing New Board Members

After completing the nomination process for a board candidate, elections can take place via ballot or voice vote (which is known as viva voce). Although voice votes are faster than…

CEO vs. Board on Culture Impact

CEO vs. Board on Culture Impact

Who is responsible for shaping the culture of an organization – its board or its CEO?  Most likely, the answer lies somewhere in between. A company’s culture evolves…

Mandatory Retirement Age for CEOs

CEOs & Mandatory Retirement Age

Do CEOs have a shelf life? Some companies appear to believe so; a majority of firms in the S&P 1500, and more than a third of S&P 500 firms,…

Leaders & Self-Reflection

Leaders & Self-Reflection

A key trait shared by successful leaders is the ability to engage in self-reflection. In fact, a 2010 study from Green Peak Partners and Cornell University found that “a…

Advantages to Using Executive Search Firms

Advantages to Using Executive Search Firms

Although bringing recruiting in-house may appear an attractive option to a company trying to economize, there are a number of benefits to utilizing an executive search firm to…

mission, vision, values

Mission, Vision, and Values

Jenette Nagy and Stephen B. Fawcett of the University of Kansas suggest in a document prepared for the school’s online Community Toolbox that the difference between organizations that “know exactly…

Mid-Life Career Change

Mid-Life Career Change

Average life expectancy in the U.S. reached an all-time high in 2012, according to the CDC, of 81 years for women and 76 for men. With another decade or…

Importance of Rural Hospitals

The Importance of Rural Hospitals

Rural hospitals have been facing several challenges over the last decade. Reduced rural population numbers, an increase of uninsured patients, recruitment difficulties, equipment underuse, and reimbursement regulation have…

Value Based Care & Population Health

Value Based Care & Population Health

Hospitals & Health Networks recently published an insightful article from John Kitzhaber, MD, a physician and former governor of Oregon, in which he addressed four forces he sees as shaping…

Patient Satisfaction

The Problem with Patient Satisfaction

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 established the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program, implemented through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In October of 2012, the program began withholding one percent of…

Hospital CEO Turnover

Hospital CEO Turnover

The rate of turnover at the highest level of hospital administration is, and has historically been, significant, a concern when considering the need for stability and continuity to…

The Expanding Healthcare C-Suite

As health care is undergoing significant change, the c-suite in healthcare organizations is expanding to include new roles that address new expectations in the marketplace; a recent survey by the…

Benefits of Diversity in the Workplace

The Benefits of Diversity in the Workplace

The long asserted claim that diversity benefits workplaces and outcomes has, in recent years, become axiom as study after study highlights the many ways in which qualities like…

Leaders & Self-Reflection

Leaders & Self-Reflection

A key trait shared by successful leaders is the ability to engage in self-reflection. In fact, a 2010 study from Green Peak Partners and Cornell University found that “a…

Mid-Life Career Change

Mid-Life Career Change

Average life expectancy in the U.S. reached an all-time high in 2012, according to the CDC, of 81 years for women and 76 for men. With another decade or…

Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

Emotional Intelligence & Leadership

Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others, and to harness emotions and apply them to tasks like thinking and…

Networking for Leaders

Networking for Leaders

In 2007, Herminia Ibarra and Mark Lee Hunter, professors at INSEAD, published an article in Harvard Business Review entitled “How Leaders Create and Use Networks”; ten years later, the concepts…

Job Satisfaction

Job Satisfaction

Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw was known for his disdain for the upper class and for speaking out against what he saw as an unfair distribution of wealth…

Nominating New Board Members

When a board finds itself in the position of needing to elect a new general member or committee member, it might seem like a confusing process; however, it…

Electing New Board Members

Electing New Board Members

After completing the nomination process for a board candidate, elections can take place via ballot or voice vote (which is known as viva voce). Although voice votes are faster than…

Advantages to Using Executive Search Firms

Advantages to Using Executive Search Firms

Although bringing recruiting in-house may appear an attractive option to a company trying to economize, there are a number of benefits to utilizing an executive search firm to…

Job Hopping

Job Hopping

The term “job-hopping” can mean different things to different people; Frank Dadah of recruitment firm WinterWyman defines it as “moving from one company to the next every one to two…

Pam Davis

SPOTLIGHT: Interview with Pam Davis

After an Astounding 28 Years, our Friend Pam Davis Retires as the CEO of Edward Elmhurst. Meet the Woman Who Never Stops In November of 2016, Pamela Davis…

Sandra Bruce

SPOTLIGHT: Interview with Sandra Bruce

Sandra Bruce has had a remarkable and extensive career as a healthcare leader. Bruce, who officially retired on September 30, 2015, at the age of 70, has been actively…

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