Bringing leadership to life in health : LEADS in a caring environment : putting LEADS to work / Graham Dickson, Bill Tholl, editors.

This book shows why better leadership helps meet the challenges facing health care. The focus is on the Canadian-developed LEADS in a Caring Environment framework: what it does, how it was developed and how LEADS can be a model to envision and plan change.

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Other Authors: Dickson, Graham (Editor), Tholl, Bill (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
Edition:Second edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 1: From Concept to Reality: Putting LEADS to Work
  • Introduction
  • Bringing Leadership to Life in Health: A Primer on LEADS
  • Putting LEADS to Work: A Retrospective on a New Perspective
  • What has Changed: Key Ideas
  • What Hasn't Changed: Enduring Ideas
  • Summary
  • References
  • 2: Illuminating Leadership and LEADS
  • The Foundations of Modern Leadership
  • The Foundations of Leadership
  • Leadership and Context
  • The Democratic Context
  • The Organizational Context: Leadership and Culture
  • The Need for More Courage
  • Defining Leadership in Health
  • What Leadership Isn't
  • Self, Interpersonal and Strategic Leadership
  • Distributed Leadership
  • Summary
  • Appendix: Leadership Theories
  • Category: Established Leadership Theories
  • Category: Emerging Leadership Theories
  • References
  • 3: The LEADS in a Caring Environment Capabilities Framework: The Source Code for Health Leadership
  • LEADS in a Caring Environment
  • Caring
  • Environment
  • Capabilities
  • Framework
  • The Validity of LEADS: Can You Depend on It?
  • Construct Validity of LEADS
  • Face Validity of LEADS
  • The Ongoing Appeal of LEADS
  • LEADS and Other National Frameworks
  • The United Kingdom (England)
  • Australia
  • Summary
  • References
  • 4: Learning LEADS: Developing Leadership in Individuals and Organizations
  • Learning Leadership: Why It's Different from Learning Anything Else
  • Learning Leadership Means Learning Followership
  • Leaders Learn from Emotional Experience as Well as Practical Experience
  • Learning Includes Unlearning
  • Leadership and Learning are Indispensable to Each Other
  • Learning Individual Leadership: The Hero's Journey
  • The Hero's Journey and Experiential Learning
  • The Ten Commandments of Individual Leadership Learning
  • A Disciplined Approach to Learning Organizational Leadership
  • Leading Practices for Developing Leadership in Organizations
  • Effective Features for Maximum Leadership Program Impact
  • Summary
  • References
  • 5: The LEADS in a Caring Environment Framework: Lead Self
  • Introduction
  • Are-Self-Aware
  • Components of Self-Awareness
  • Manage Themselves
  • Demonstrating Emotional Intelligence
  • Build a Productive Leadership Mindset
  • Productively Balance the Demands of Personal Responsibility and Accountability
  • Develop Themselves
  • Personal Mastery: A Discipline for Self-Development
  • A Strengths-Based Approach
  • Demonstrates Character
  • Building Character, Building Resilience
  • Summary
  • Lead Self Self-Assessment (For on-line access to self assessment tool, please visit www.LEADSglobal.ca.)
  • References
  • 6: The LEADS in a Caring Environment Framework: Engage Others
  • Engagement in Context
  • Engagement and Diversity
  • Foster the Development of Others
  • Contribute to the Creation of Healthy Organizations
  • Health Workplaces Demand Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (Dr. Ivy Bourgeault)
  • Communicate Effectively