Healthcare CHROs—Carving Pathways to Workforce Engagement
This is the first in a series of four posts on the priorities of the healthcare chief human resources officer (CHRO). Employee engagement is a vital strategy for any organization that seeks to achieve success, according to the Gallup organization, which has measured employee engagement since 2000. Engaging healthcare employees, clinicians, managers, executives and board members is […]
Women in the Healthcare C-Suite: Key to Financial Success?
Companies with women in high-level leadership positions are more profitable, according to a 2016 survey from the Peterson Institute for International Economics (http://www.iie.com) and EY (http://www.ey.com). Survey data carry a serious message for healthcare leaders—especially in light of the discouraging statistics on compensation of male and female chief information officers (CIOs) reported by the Health […]
Driving Healthcare Innovation with Teams
The healthcare industry is missing an opportunity to cultivate innovations “that are modest in size, low in risk and highly likely to deliver wins for both patients and profits,” according to a March 2016 article in Harvard Business Review (https://hbr.org/2016/03/the-best-way-to-improve-health-care-delivery-is-with-a-small-dedicated-team). The answer resides in the creation of “small but full-time clinical teams that are commissioned […]
Leading into the Future: C-Suites and Boards Must Build Learning Cultures
What will it take for senior healthcare executives to lead healthcare organizations (HCOs) to 2020 and beyond? The answer rests in executive development grounded in an enterprise-wide approach to the acquisition and application of knowledge, skill, competence and leadership savvy. While executive search consultants still debate the requirements for healthcare C-Suite and board success, they […]
2016 Healthcare Executive Imperative: Lead across Generations in a Multigenerational World
Healthcare organizations (HCOs) deliver care to increasingly diverse patient and consumer populations. With long-standing, public commitments to diversity and inclusion, these HCOs increasingly recruit, retain and engage people who represent differences in ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation and age. Healthcare executives, employees and clinicians, for example, can easily represent up to five generations, including the […]
Do You Qualify as an Exceptional Healthcare Leader? Part II
The exceptional healthcare C-Suite and board leader is in high demand. Healthcare organizations across the continuum of care seek leaders who reach far beyond the requirements of a senior executive roles stated within formal position descriptions. Increasingly, hiring organizations ask C-Suite candidates to share stories related to the leadership traits discussed in Part I of […]
Let’s Bring Lean Thinking to the Healthcare C-Suite
Lean is far from a religion, panacea or way of life. Instead, lean is a set of tools and a mindset through which healthcare C-Suite executives and board members can ask: “What can we do to improve the quality, timeliness, and convenience of the services we deliver to patients, consumers, clinicians and employees? The goal […]
Healthcare Leaders Embrace a New Accountability
Leadership accountability is more vital than ever, according to the Evolving Healthcare C-Suite: Trends, Predictions and Strategic Advice, a new white paper from InveniasPartners, a Chicago-based healthcare C-Suite and board executive recruitment, assessment and talent management advisory services firm. “Healthcare organizations will increasingly insist on board performance and accountability,” says the white paper. “Board members, […]
Do You Qualify as an Exceptional Healthcare Leader?
The healthcare industry no longer seeks healthcare executives who are merely “qualified” to move into new or newly vacant C-suite positions. Instead, hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and medical groups want C-suite executive and board leaders who meet the standards of exceptional leadership. The Evolving Healthcare C-Suite: Trends, Predictions and Strategic Advice (www.inveniaspartners.com), a […]
Five Steps to Innovation from the Healthcare C-Suite
Innovation superstars will stay on the radar of healthcare organizations, according to the Evolving Healthcare C-Suite: Trends, Predictions and Strategic Advice, a new white paper from InveniasPartners, a Chicago-based healthcare C-Suite and board executive recruitment, assessment and talent management advisory services firm. The white paper is available for download at (http://www.inveniaspartners.com). Some healthcare organizations—hospitals, health […]