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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Health Administration > From Management to Leadership: Interpersonal Skills for Success in Healthcare

From Management to Leadership: Interpersonal Skills for Success in Health Care, 2nd Edition
Jo Manion, PhD, RN, CNAA, FAAN

Book Version, 2nd Edition
Softcover, 400 pages
ISBN: 0787979295
9780787979294
AHA Press / Jossey-Bass
May 2005
(click the button below for the very best available price)

 

 

"I used to wonder why we have so many health care managers and so few health care leaders. If you are curious about the same thing—Jo Manion explains it all in this book." —Leland R. Kaiser, president, Kaiser Consulting

 

Recommended by the American Hospital Association, this helpful book identifies the fundamental interpersonal competencies every leader needs. Furthermore, it maps out suggestions for improving these skills.

 

This book has received 4 stars from Doody Book reviews.

 

This book is a solid, practical and comprehensive presentation of leadership interpersonal competencies for established and aspiring health care leaders. It addresses the key principles with which an effective leader establishes and works within a productive relationship with followers. The writing style and examples make it possible for a leader to use the information immediately within his or her leadership practice.

 

"Today's challenging health care environment requires leadership qualities based on fundamental interpersonal competencies. In this book Manion presents helpful insights with lots of examples for aspiring health care team members." —James W. Varnum, president, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Alliance

 

The author explores:

  • the difference between management and leadership

  • the leader-follower relationship

  • how to build commitment among followers

  • communicating with clarity

  • how to develop skills and competencies in others, and

  • essential principles of the managing process. 

The author includes examples from health care leaders to emphasize key points. "For anyone who wants to be reminded about what sound leadership entails, this is the book for them. I recommend it without reservation." —Tim Porter-O'Grady, senior partner, Tim Porter-O'Grady Associates, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia and co-author of Quantum Leadership: A Textbook of New Leadership

 

This book is for both experienced and new leaders in health care.

 

Administrators and health care executives tend to purchase quantities of this book for distribution to their unit and department directors and/or those they wish to mentor or support. You may view these excerpts here:

Jo Manion is principal and senior consultant of Manion & Associates and a nationally-recognized speaker. She is a regular contributor to the journal H & HN OnLine, author of Create a Positive Health Care Workplace! and coauthor of Nature's Wisdom in the Workplace.

 

(information from the publisher)

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