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Next-Level Healthcare Leadership: Advanced Topics for Healthcare Administrators, Leaders, and Managers

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Are you an experienced healthcare leader ready to take your skills to the next level? Look no further than "Next-Level Healthcare Leadership" by Laura Hills D.A. This essential read is for administrators, leaders, and managers eager to drive meaningful change and leave a lasting impact in the healthcare sector. Your journey to becoming the best leader you can be starts here.

Presenting Advanced Leadership Insights

Mastering leadership basics in today's fast-paced healthcare environment is just the beginning. "Next-Level Healthcare Leadership" is crafted for those with a solid foundation seeking advanced strategies to refine and expand their leadership abilities.

Hills goes beyond traditional concepts, urging leaders to embrace innovative thinking. With 17 practical, how-to-do-it strategies, she challenges you to let go of outdated methods and adopt new perspectives. You'll also find a step-by-step tool to help you craft a customized leadership legacy statement, guiding the rest of your career.

Who Should Read This Book?

  • Healthcare Administrators, Physician Leaders, and Managers: If you're ready to push the boundaries of your leadership, this book is for you.

  • Experienced Leaders Seeking Growth: Ideal for those feeling stagnant and needing a jolt to reignite their passion.

  • Aspiring Leaders: While not a primer, it offers valuable insights for those preparing for advanced leadership roles.

Why Choose This Book?

  • Expertise and Credibility: Written by Hills, a seasoned author with a doctorate in adult learning, this book is designed to engage and educate effectively.

  • Comprehensive Research: Synthesizing over 300 sources into a concise, easy-to-read format, this book provides the latest leadership ideas in digestible sections filled with practical strategies, bullet points, and real-world examples.

  • Practical and Actionable: Focuses practical advice, with examples and samples you can use immediately.

  • Excitement and Engagement: Discover new ways to invigorate your leadership with dynamic content that will keep you motivated.

  • Confidence Boost: Gain confidence as you tackle previously daunting areas of leadership. Understand that you’re not alone in your fears or uncertainties and find the guidance you need to overcome them.

Addressing Leadership Challenges

  1. Developing Key Characteristics: Debunk the myth that leaders are born, not made. This book provides actionable steps to cultivate essential traits like charisma, vision, and resilience.

  2. Reinvigorating Your Leadership: The topics covered are anything but mundane. From leadership superpowers and origin stories to shiny object syndrome and impostor syndrome, you'll find fresh content to keep you engaged and inspired.

Legacy and Succession Planning: Craft your legacy with a dedicated chapter on succession planning and a bonus chapter on creating a leadership legacy statement, ensuring your impact endures beyond your tenure.

Publication date: March 28, 2025


About Author(s)
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Laura Hills, D.A., has accomplished many things over a distinguished 40-year career but defines herself first and foremost as an educator. Her passion is to teach professionals how to lead and develop others, build better relationships, and communicate more effectively. She is well known for her books and articles and notably has been the staff development columnist for AAPL’s Healthcare Administration, Leadership, & Management Journal and The Journal of Medical Practice Management since 1998.

Dr. Hills has grounded her work in a rigorous academic foundation. She holds a Doctor of Arts in higher education with a focus on adult learning and leadership and wrote and published her award-winning dissertation on leadership legacies. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband Cornell Hills and is the mother of three adult daughters.

For over 45 years.

The American Association for Physician Leadership has helped physicians develop their leadership skills through education, career development, thought leadership and community building.

The American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL) changed its name from the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) in 2014. We may have changed our name, but we are the same organization that has been serving physician leaders since 1975.

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