Welcome to Leadership in the Literature, a roundup of recent articles/multimedia on leading and managing from Allina Health Library Services

  1. Coaching to develop leadership of healthcare managers: a mixed-methods systematic review | Hu - 2024 - BMC Medical Education 
    Coaching is commonly used to facilitate leadership development among healthcare managers. However, there is limited knowledge of the components of coaching interventions and their impacts on healthcare managers’ leadership development. This mixed-methods systematic review aimed to synthesize evidence of coaching to develop leadership among healthcare managers.

  2. A Pragmatic Approach to Assessing Supervisor Leadership Capability to Support Healthcare Worker Well-Being | Dyrbye - 2024 | Journal of Healthcare Management
    (Available in MN only, email library@allina.com for a copy outside of MN). 
    We sought to build upon previous studies that have demonstrated how healthcare workers’ ratings of their immediate supervisor’s leadership capabilities relate to their well-being and job satisfaction

  3. Racism, Equity, and Inclusion: Can Clinical Simulation Train Health Care Workers to Build an Anti-Racism Culture?|  Aga -2024 | NEJM Catalyst
    Clinical care delivery continues to suffer from biased social norms, stigma, and racism. Innovative approaches to being prepared for these experiences when they arise are needed. The goal of the HealthPartners Institute’s Clinical Simulation program is, in part, to train clinicians and newly graduated registered nurses entering clinical practice to be prepared for racist care delivery encounters and to implement anti-racism interventions as part of their daily work. A component of the initiative is an educational, instructor-led clinical simulation modality that includes a curriculum with application scenarios. In addition, after the simulation scenarios, a debrief session ensures the opportunity for reflection (as individuals and care team members), discussion (to tease apart distinct ideas/elements), and dialogue (to bring together insights for a shared perspective). Participants express support for this simulation methodology in trainings designed to support anti-racism as well as other stigmas and biases.

  4. The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload. | Whillans -2024 | Harvard Business Review
    (Available in MN only, email library@allina.com for a copy outside of MN). 
    This article presents psychological pitfalls that lead to the scheduling and attending of too many meetings in the workplace and how to avoid this meeting overload. Topics include overcoming the fear of missing out in the context of meetings, incentivizing hitting deadlines without check-in meetings, and the mere urgency effect.

  5. Examining the Relationship between Workplace Fun and Innovative Behavior among Nurses: The Mediating Effect of Innovation Support and Affective Commitment | Hashemian - 2024 | Journal of Nursing Management  
    Aim. This study investigated the role of cultural, organizational, and managerial support, workplace fun, affective commitment, innovative behavior with innovative output, and also the mediating role of innovative behavior in the framework of a causal model. 

  6. Impact of Collaborative Leadership, Workplace Social Capital, and Interprofessional Collaboration Practice on Patient Safety Climate | Kida - 2024 | Journal of Health Care Quality
    Patient safety climate is an important factor in promoting patient safety for healthcare organizations. This study investigated the relationship between collaborative leadership and patient safety climate, the mediation effect of workplace social capital, or interprofessional collaboration practice.

  7. Stop Playing Favorites | Ginka – 2024 | Harvard Business Review
    (Available in MN only, email library@allina.com for a copy outside of MN). 
    Although most managers believe that they give each of their team members equal attention, respect, and consideration, four decades’ worth of empirical research says otherwise. Studies show that nearly all bosses have—or are seen to have—in-groups and out-groups. Employees on the wrong side of these divides experience a reduction in engagement, satisfaction, commitment, citizenship, innovation, and performance. Bosses usually argue that any differentiation is unintended and that their reports are reading too much into minor disparities. Both claims might be true. However, it is the view from below that counts. Perceived unfairness is real in its consequences. Managers should first acknowledge these issues and then work hard to head off or repair conflict. Those who don’t may lose key contributors they’d prefer to retain, exacerbate the challenges presented by underperformers, ruin team performance and morale, and hurt their own reputations. Start by regularly reviewing your treatment of team members. Ask yourself: Did I seek everyone’s company? Did I acknowledge their capabilities? Did I assist their growth? If you are routinely answering no for certain subordinates, they need more attention from you. When a relationship has already gone off the rails, it’s important to rectify the problem: Prepare for a direct conversation, engage empathetically, and then make a plan for how you’ll interact with one another in the future.

  8. Using Artificial Intelligence in Electronic Health Record Systems to Mitigate Physician Burnout: A Roadmap | Fawzy – 2024 – Journal of Healthcare Management
    (Available in MN only, email library@allina.com for a copy outside of MN). 
    Physician burnout, a significant problem in modern healthcare, adversely affects healthcare professionals and their organizations. This essay explores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to positively address this issue through its integration into the electronic health record and the automation of administrative tasks. Recent initiatives and research highlight the positive impact of AI assistants in alleviating physician burnout and suggest solutions to enhance physician well-being. By examining the causes and consequences of burnout, the promise of AI in healthcare, and its integration into electronic health record systems, this essay explores how AI can not only reduce physician burnout but also improve the efficiency of healthcare organizations. A roadmap provides a visualization of how AI could be integrated into electronic health records during the previsit, visit, and postvisit stages of a clinical encounter.

Multimedia

  1. Innovation 2.0: The Influence You Have | Hidden Brain Media (Podcast)
    Think about the last time you asked someone for something. Maybe you were nervous or worried about what the person would think of you. Chances are that you didn’t stop to think about the pressure you were exerting on that person. This week, we continue our Innovation 2.0 series with a 2020 episode about a phenomenon known as as “egocentric bias.” We talk with psychologist Vanessa Bohns about how this bias leads us astray, and how we can use this knowledge to ask for the things we need.

  2. Why Meetings Suck and How to Fix Them | WorkLife with Adam Grant (Podcast)
    Meetings often drain our joy and sap our focus – and meeting overload kills productivity. So why do we have so many of them, and is a better world possible? Adam investigates the science of improving meetings and explores how workplaces are fighting meeting bloat.