Vital Signs

In Vital Signs: A Guide to Healthy Leadership for Physicians, executive coach and consultant Jim Ice draws from decades of leadership development experience to deliver a powerful prescription for health care leadership excellence.

You are a talented physician, but are you the leader you aspire to be? What if you could become the grounded physician leader that other health care professionals look to as their template for success?

In today's demanding health care landscape, physician leaders must create engaging workplaces while inspiring their teams to deliver exceptional patient care. Vital Signs takes you on a personal leadership development journey that illuminates the powerful truth: Who you are is how you lead. ­The most successful physician leaders understand that investments in their own leadership capabilities will multiply across every team interaction.

Packed with actionable insights, real-world examples, and practical frameworks, this guide examines the critical factors that determine your leadership health:

• The HEART Protocol™ - Evaluate the five critical systems of leadership effectiveness
• ­Vital Signs - Diagnose your personal leadership beliefs and behaviors to ensure personal leadership health
• ­Symptoms - Recognize and treat both the overt and the subtle signs of leadership HEART disease
• Treatment Options - Address immediate issues and create preventative strategies that will guide you toward optimal leadership health.

Complement your personal leadership journey with the companion volume, Vital Signs: A Guide to Healthy Organizations for Physicians, which delivers strategies to optimize your team's performance and organizational culture.