Aug. 19–22
Register- Program Spotlight: Leadership Development Program
- Podcast: The Softer Side of Leadership
- Summer Reading Is Sweeter With a Sale
- Options to Improve Your Operational Expertise
- Recent Grads: Additional Member Benefits Await
- Early Bird Registration Deadline Approaching for World Hospital Congress
Program Spotlight:
Leadership Development Program
Invest in your personal and professional growth as a leader and earn 19 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits at the Leadership Development Program.
ACHE’s Leadership Development Program, Oct. 23–25, in Chicago, combines skill assessments, personalized feedback, individual coaching and group exercises with educational sessions to enhance your leadership capacity to drive organizational success. Emerge equipped with valuable and enlightening information about your personal leadership style, communication and decision-making skills, and the impact that you have on others.
Register for the course today.
Podcast: The Softer Side of Leadership
In this Healthcare Executive podcast, explore agility and resiliency in healthcare leadership with Amer Kaissi, PhD, professor, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, and the 2019 winner of ACHE’s James A. Hamilton Award for his book Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare Leaders. During the podcast, Kaissi discusses his research, which revealed that the best leaders are not only ambitious, strong and accountable, but also humble, compassionate and kind.
Visit HealthcareExecutive.org/Podcast to listen and browse through more episodes. The podcasts are also available through Apple’s iTunes.
Summer Reading Is Sweeter With a Sale
Score summer reading deals during the Health Administration Press summer sale, July 15–Aug. 31. Order any book or self-study course and receive a 20 percent discount off ACHE member and nonmember prices when you use the promo code SUMMER19 at checkout. This sale does not apply to Futurescan 15-packs, ACHE Board of Governors Examination Flashcards and any multibook sets or bundles that are already discounted.
While perusing books available through Health Administration Press, be sure to check out some of our new releases including Dyad Leadership and Clinical Integration: Driving Change, Aligning Strategies and Five Disciplines for Zero Patient Harm: How High Reliability Happens.
Options to Improve Your Operational Expertise
This August, ACHE is offering two seminars on the topic of operations during the Seattle Cluster, Aug. 19–22. Each seminar is worth 12 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits.
Discover how to practice and sustain operational excellence through effective application of Lean tools at “Achieving a Sustainable Transformation to Operational Excellence,” led by ACHE faculty Marta Karlov, operational excellence professional, American Family Insurance, Madison, Wis., and Patsy Engel, faculty, Catalysis, Appleton, Wis.
During “Growth in the Reform Era,” explore how to build a structure for managing future growth initiatives and a process for instilling a growth orientation throughout your organization with ACHE faculty Scott A. Mason, DPA, FACHE, managing partner, SKM Enterprises LLC, Williamsburg, Va.
On Aug. 19 and Aug. 21, focus on your career at one of the following Career Resource sessions: The Benchmarks Workshop, The Benchmarks Plus Emotional Intelligence Workshop or the Emotional Intelligence Workshop.
Recent Grads: Additional Member Benefits Await
As a Student Associate, ACHE offered you a wide range of services to help launch your career in healthcare management. Now that you have graduated, we invite you to continue exploring the benefits of ACHE as a full Member.
Between Feb. 1–Aug. 31, eligible Student Associates can transfer to Member status free of charge. As a full Member, you will automatically belong to ACHE’s Early Careerist Network, begin accruing Member tenure toward the three-year requirement to become a Fellow of ACHE and can participate in ACHE’s Leader-to-Leader Rewards Program. Jumpstart your career and visit My ACHE to transfer to Member status or ache.org/Students for more information about transferring.
Also, don’t forget to update your contact information so you can continue to receive important communications about your membership, upcoming educational events and networking opportunities. Simply log in to My ACHE to update your preferred mailing address, email address and phone number.
Early Bird Registration Deadline Approaching for World Hospital Congress
The International Hospital Federation is offering discounted registration for its 43rd annual meeting now through Aug. 15.
The IHF World Hospital Congress, to be held Nov. 6–9 in Muscat, Oman, is a global forum that brings together leaders of key national and international healthcare organizations, drivers of healthcare policy, management, financial trends and solutions in healthcare management, and service delivery. Take a peek at the event program to learn more. Among IHF’s full, group and associate community of members, ACHE is an IHF Premier Member. ACHE members can avail themselves of the discounted rate by entering the promo code IHFCO2019 during registration.
This is a special year for IHF as it celebrates its 90th anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, IHF has created a special 90th anniversary video and collected testimonials from the IHF president; past presidents, including Thomas C. Dolan, PhD, FACHE, FASAE, president emeritus, ACHE, and IHF president, 2011–2013; and other IHF members.