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

  1. Exploring the dimensions of authentic leadership and its impact on nursing outcomes : An integrative review | Huges - 2024 | Nursing Mangement
    Based on this comprehensive literature review, a clear and compelling body of evidence illustrates the substantial influence of authentic leadership to positively impact nurse well-being, quality of work culture and environment dynamics, and patient safety and quality outcomes.
     
  2. Your team members aren't participating in meetings. Here's what to do. | Valasquez - 2024 | Harvard Business Review
    (Available in MN only, email library@allina.com for a copy outside of MN). 
    This article discusses the issue of low team participation in meetings and provides strategies for leaders to address this problem. Research has shown that many people find meetings unproductive and leaders often lack formal training on how to conduct effective meetings. The article suggests that leaders should focus on fostering a safe and inclusive team culture by understanding individual and group dynamics. 
     
  3. Mapping leadership, communication and collaboration in short-term distributed teams across various contexts: A scoping review | Morian - 2024 | BMJ Open
    Increased globalisation and technological advancements have led to the emergence of distributed teams in various sectors, including healthcare. However, our understanding of how leadership, communication and collaboration influence distributed healthcare teams remains limited.
     
  4. The nurse as coach: Building high performing teams | O'Grady - 2024 | Nursing Administration Quarterly
    The provision of modern health care in the United States faces significant challenges, as evidenced by multiple national reports of a workforce in distress. In response to these challenges, the practice of coaching emerges as a transformative skill, recommended for individuals in high-stress environments. Coaching in health care focuses on developing nurses and building teams by fostering self-understanding, deploying strengths, improving relational strategies, and gaining moral clarity. It serves as a potent strategy for nurse leaders to navigate the complexities of their systems. This paper explores the practice of coaching as an important mindset and skill. A coaching mindset is characterized by trust, deep listening, curiosity, embracing both/and thinking, discernment over judgment, and fosters an environment where nurses can flourish. 
     
  5. Unequal treatment: Disparities in care continue | Wilkins - 2024 | NEJM Catalyst
    A survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council finds that views on inequities in care delivery vary according to race and ethnicity.
     
  6. Nurse manager success factors: The foundation for succession planning | Magri - 2024 | Nurse Leader
    An estimated 70,000 nurses, including nurse leaders, are expected to retire annually. Proactive succession planning programs are key mitigation strategies for this impending shortage of nurse leaders. Determining success factors that support a program to develop future nurse managers is the first step and lays a foundation for succession planning. Convening focus groups among current nurse managers to identify, in their own words, what it takes to be a successful nurse manager, and mapping those factors to the academic health system behavioral competencies and American Organization for Nursing Leadership manager competencies created the foundation for an established succession planning program.
     
  7. Turn employee feedback into action | Burris - 2024 | Harvard Business Review
    (Available in MN only, email library@allina.com for a copy outside of MN)
    To manage the employee experience, leaders must deeply understand employees' perceptions, feelings, and desires and respond thoughtfully. This is particularly crucial when immense resources are invested in gathering employee feedback through pulse surveys, town halls, and data scraping from internal communications. But leaders are often overwhelmed by the data and struggle to translate it into actionable insights. The authors conducted detailed interviews with executives and HR leaders from more than 20 multinational companies in sectors such as technology, financial services, and consumer goods. Their work reveals that although technology has simplified the collection of data, the real challenge lies in making sense of it and integrating it into a coherent strategy
     
  8. 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)
    Goal: 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.


Multimedia

  1. Empowering women in healthcare: Leadership and insights | Healthcare Executive (Podcast)
    Jessica Long, COO, and Rachel Thompson, MD, CMO, Core Clinical Partners, discuss their career journeys, the future of healthcare leadership for women and the essential skill needed to be successful in the field.

  2. How to win people over | Hidden Brain (Podcast)
    We humans are a social species, and so it’s not surprising that we care a lot about what other people think of us. It’s also not surprising that many of us stumble when we try to manage others’ views of us. This week, organizational psychologist Alison Fragale explains why that is, and offers better ways to win friends and influence people.