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15 Apr

Overview

An Overview for Contributors to the

Executive Diversity Career Navigator (EDCN)

The Executive Diversity Career Navigator is an online resource designed for healthcare leaders from underrepresented groups to successfully navigate their career path to senior level positions. By enhancing diversity in leadership, EDCN will help cultivate a diverse healthcare workforce that is best equipped to address disparities in care and access—effectively improving health for all.

On the road to senior level positions, aspiring healthcare executives from diverse backgrounds encounter various opportunities and challenges—some common to all travelers, some more pronounced for those from diverse backgrounds. The EDCN provides easy access to tools, tips, links, and invaluable information tailored to the needs and interests of diverse healthcare executives.

Six national healthcare organizations dedicated to advancing executive diversity collaborated to create EDCN:

A distinguishing feature of the EDCN is inclusion of the “voice” of experienced healthcare
leaders captured in text, video clips, and other engaging formats. Featured segments will include:

Mentoring Minute: video, written narrative, testimony or suggestions from experienced healthcare leaders
Excerpts from pertinent articles, books, and publications
Navigating Tips: direct quotes from diverse healthcare leaders on how they navigated their career advancement
Leader Q&A: diverse healthcare executives respond to career-related questions
Travelers’ Checkpoints: Checklists and other interactive tools with action steps pertaining to one of the EDCN categories or topics
“How I Got Here” – video, quote, or short text from seasoned diverse healthcare leaders on a specific aspect of how they achieved their position or how they traveled the road to the C-Suite

You are invited to lend your voice to EDCN and encourage aspiring healthcare leaders as they journey to senior management ranks. We have several easy ways for you to participate, requiring only a minimal amount of your time.

For more info and to participate, contact Naomi Tolbert, ACHE Diversity and Inclusion Specialist, ntolbert@ache.org; 312.424.9307. All questions and concerns can also be sent to diversity@ache.org.

10 Feb

Mid-Careerist

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Mid – Careerist

Chart Your Course, Know Yourself

Update your personal strategic plan
At this new stage of your career, it is important to assess and reset your career objectives as well as be prepared to take strategic risks.
Unconscious bias and other factors can make career risks more difficult for diverse individuals, but having a career plan will keep you on course and help jumpstart the next step of your mid-career.
Remain open to relocation
Once you determine your goals, keep moving towards them; this may require you to seek or accept different opportunities to achieve your goals. Look for an organization where you will be valued, and one that will provide opportunities for you to build a track record to move forward.
Consider different routes to your goals
Every journey can take an unexpected detour. As you advance in your career, it may become necessary to explore alternative routes to your career destination. Anton J. Gunn describes his unusual path to the C-suite.

Master the Job

Strengthen higher-level competencies
After a few years in the profession, you want to focus on improving the more advanced competencies for your position. Begin the process by assessing your current level of competency. You can also continue improving your competencies by becoming actively involved in your professional membership organizations, as summarized by Executive Recruiter John E. Green, Jr.
Expand cross-function proficiencies
Sometimes you have to leave your niche in order to discover your potential. Learn at least basic proficiencies in several other departments or related areas.
Hone team-building skills
Sharpen problem-solving skills
By this point in your career, you will be honing your skills in managing staff—oftentimes a group of individuals who are diverse on several dimensions. An essential skill to master is team building. Check out this quick tip from Shanna Johnson on strengthening your team’s connections.

Leverage the Relationships

Build collaboration skills
One of your most critical relationships will be with those who report to you. Effective managers understand there will be times when it’s most effective to manage your direct report relationship as a collaborative effort. John E. Green, Jr. suggests one way to approach this collaborative connection.
Use mentors for candid feedback
It is not always easy speaking to others about your short-comings or opportunities for growth, but it is essential to have a source who will give you the “real-deal.” Develop a close network of people with whom you can be vulnerable and honest so that you receive feedback that will help you go to the next phase of your career.
Establish stronger network with other recognized healthcare leaders
One way to do this is to become involved in professional organizations, which will increase your network, enhance skills, develop leadership skills, and more.
Learn how to talk with senior leaders
Learning to communicate more effectively with senior leaders can begin by recognizing the barriers—internal or external to yourself—that impede your outreach to those in the highest ranks. Then proactively work to overcome those real or perceived obstacles.

Gain Positive Visibility

Develop executive presence
You want to become known as exhibiting an authentic presence that represents you as having an ideal blend of leadership temperament, skills, competencies, and confidence. Good news: you can learn how to authentically have executive presence. Shanna Johnson offers a few tips for polishing your presence as a healthcare executive.
Take lead positions in outside groups
Expose yourself to projects that you are passionate about and committed to that may be out of your department or external to the organization. This experience is not only beneficial to your growth but opens the opportunity for others to see your potential as a leader.

10 Dec

Hello world!

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11 Sep

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Arrange Your Workspace

In Business, Photography | No comment T he term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De Stijl artists is a major source of reference for this kind of work.

11 Sep

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Business For Future

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he term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De Stijl artists is a major source of reference for this kind of work.

Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe adopted the motto Less is more to describe his aesthetic tactic of arranging the numerous necessary components of a building to create an impression of extreme simplicity, by enlisting every element and detail to serve multiple visual and functional purposes (such as designing a floor to also serve as the radiator, or a massive fireplace to also house the bathroom). Designer Buckminster Fuller adopted the engineer’s goal of Doing more with less, but his concerns were oriented towards technology and engineering rather than aesthetics. A similar sentiment was industrial designer Dieter Rams’ motto, Less but better adapted from Mies. The structure uses relatively simple elegant designs; ornamentations are quality rather than quantity.

Using sometimes the beauty of natural patterns on stone cladding and real wood encapsulated within ordered simplified structures, and real metal producing a simplified but prestigious architecture and interior design. May use color brightness balance and contrast between surface colors to improve visual aesthetics. The structure would usually have industrial and space age style utilities (lamps, stoves, stairs, technology, etc.), neat and straight components (like walls or stairs) that appear to be machined with equipment, flat or nearly flat roofs, pleasing negative spaces, and large windows to let in lots of sunlight.

This and science fiction may have contributed to the late twentieth century futuristic architecture design, and modern home decor. Modern minimalist home architecture with its unnecessary internal walls removed probably have led to the popularity of the open plan kitchen and living room style. De Stijl expanded the ideas that could be expressed by using basic elements such as lines and planes organized in very particular manners.