Managers Who Lead: A Handbook for Improving Health Services was published by the MSH Management and Leadership (M&L) Program in June 2005. It empowers health managers at all levels of a health system—in the public or private sector—to lead teams to face challenges and achieve results. It answers questions such as: How can I lead and manage more effectively? How do I create a shared vision and a clear path for achieving it? What can I do to improve work climate? How can I prepare myself and others for higher levels of responsibility? How do I lead change inside and outside my organization?
The handbook provides practical approaches for applying key leading and managing practices that managers can use with their teams to face challenges, overcome obstacles, and realize their vision of better health for all. Real-life examples illustrate how to transform work groups and organizations into high performers. It offers exercises and guidelines facilitators and managers can use to strengthen individual and team performance, and the accompanying CD-
ROM includes a wealth of additional
resources for developing the ability to lead.
Managers Who Lead is based on more than 20 years of experience in working with health professionals around the world in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to strengthen the performance of health organizations and improve people's health. The handbook is a synthesis of the work and lessons learned in the area of leadership by the M&L Program. It builds on the ideas and approaches of renowned leadership thinkers and researchers and applies these approaches to the challenges that health managers face. Managers will come back to this book again and again for guidelines and inspiration.
Managers Who Lead: A Handbook for Improving Health Services can be downloaded from the MSH Resource Center. Print copies are also available in the eBookstore.
