Next-Level Healthcare Leadership Begins with Self-Leadership

Abstract

There are so many ways that healthcare administrators, leaders, and managers can work on ramping up their leadership to the next level that it can be hard to know where to start. This article argues that the best way to begin your own development program is with self-leadership. It defines self-leadership and provides a brief history of the concept and a description of its theoretical underpinnings. It describes 10 practical benefits of self-leadership and the challenging obstacles leaders are most likely to encounter as they work on developing their self-leadership. This article then offers 15 practical cognitive and behavioral self-leadership strategies and explores the best ways to develop a next-level mindset. Finally, this article explains the 8 C’s of Self-Leadership model and suggests how leaders can assess their self-leadership so they become the best versions of themselves.