Prescription Leadership: The 9 Practical Skills Needed by Health Professionals to Thrive in the 21st Century

Harry van Bommel, Beverley Powell-Vinden, Elizabeth Latimer, Michèle Chaban and Larry Lewis 

470 pages, 6 x 9 inches, ISBN 1-55307-004-6, $30 ebook, $35 paperback

Covers the soft skills needed by care providers in health care to achieve personal success, work better together and respond to the ever-changing health care system. Using the acronym "PRINCIPAL," this book highlights the most important skills needed for co-operation amongst care providers and with their patients: Principled Leadership; Resolving Conflicts; Awareness; Communication; Team Skills; Impassioned Supervision; Change Management; Action-Oriented Planning; Life-Long Skills

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction 

Don’t Panic!

1. Principled Leadership

2. Resolving Conflicts

3. Awareness

4. Communication

5. Team Skills

6. Impassioned Supervision

7. Change Management

8. Action Oriented Planning

9.Life-Long Skills

Conclusion

About the Authors

Endnotes

Incorporating these 9 essentials skill sets into your day-to-day professional work will dramatically enhance the knowledge and skills you already have. Everyone has a body of knowledge and skills.

   Practical leadership is designed to bring out the best of what you already know and do while adding specific ideas, strategies and techniques to help you achieve even greater excellence in your work.

   Although using health care as the environment for this skills development, all professionals in all work environments require these necessary skills. With 400 pages of detailed, practically and immediately useful information, this book will begin making a real difference in how you work with others while organizing your own work and life.