Speaker 1: So, I get questions a lot about what's a great healthcare leadership development program? This is for those who want to be at the highest levels of leadership in a hospital or healthcare organization. There are over 5,000, almost 6,000 hospitals in America, and they all have leadership teams. And so, every year, there's always somebody who wants to be at a higher level of leadership in healthcare, and they're looking for a leadership development program to get them to that next level. And there's a lot of places you can look for the insights and the leadership development tools to help you to get inside of healthcare and also inside of just general leadership. The first place that I'll tell you, well, let me just tell you this. The most important thing for you to understand is that we need leaders in healthcare. We really need them in healthcare. As we can see through the pandemic of 2020, 2021, and now into 2022, we need strong, capable leaders who are willing to lead at an organizational level. As a matter of fact, I'm reading the news every week about CEOs of hospitals who are retiring or getting fired. So, there is a leadership vacuum at the top of healthcare that is growing bigger and bigger by the moment. People are not ready for the moment that's here. They just are not ready for it, and so they're starting to walk away. It was good to be a hospital CEO when times were good, but when times get tough, people are showing that they don't have the leadership skills, the acumen, or the intense focus and the passion to lead through these tough times. People are very tired. So, when you have that, that's going to leave a vacuum, and in that vacuum, you're going to see worse outcomes in healthcare. We don't have good leaders who replace these leaders who are retiring. So, when I say a vacuum, you're talking about poor patient outcomes, you're talking about more expensive services, less effective bottom line, not good community engagement. A lot of hospitals may end up closing their doors because they lack leadership, which means that everybody is desperate for a healthcare leadership development program to develop the leaders within their organization to help them to get to the next level. I'm pretty sure you're looking for one, too, because guess what? Healthcare is such a lucrative career that if you become an executive at a hospital or healthcare system, you can live a pretty good life, do great work, you can do well and do good at the same time, and there's nothing wrong with doing well and doing good at the same time. So, here's the first step that if you're looking for a good leadership development program, you should start with the American College of Healthcare Executives. This is the National Trade Association, or the National Professional Association, where all hospital leadership attends every year, the American College of Healthcare Executives. They do a conference every year, a leadership conference, they have a lot of workshops and training programs that they operate virtually and in person in every state and every region in the country. There's plenty of opportunity for you to get connected and to get some leadership training that will help you to be better in that environment. You can also go to the National Association for Health Service Executives, also known as NASI. This is a great association that helps underrepresented minority leaders find their place in healthcare and make a bigger difference of the patients that they serve in communities. I'm a member of both of these associations, and I've gotten great value out of both of them. Here's what I want you to understand. If you're looking for a top level leadership development opportunity, it's not going to come just by showing up at an association. You actually have to be intentional to build out a leadership roadmap for yourself. The leadership roadmap will include several things. Number one, it might include another advanced degree. Number two, it may include a leadership learning library of books and resources that you rely on to help you to become a better leader. The most important thing it's going to include is you to increase your aptitude and your skillset on the important part of leadership, and that is your people knowledge. Everybody thinks that if I'm an expert in healthcare, that's going to make me a great leader. Absolutely not. As a matter of fact, all of the things that you learn about healthcare can make you a terrible leader, particularly if you are a clinician, because the things that you learn in medicine about taking care of patients and how you should take care of patients won't help you to be an effective leader. You got to learn how to be effective on the people side of the equation, because effective leadership is 87% people knowledge and only 13% product knowledge. The product is healthcare, but the people make up the bulk of the organization. So what are you doing to develop your mindset and your skillset to teach and train leadership from a people perspective? Because you have to be ready to go as a leader and help other people to be leaders. So I'm going to tell you right now, you won't find that at any conference or any association. You're going to find that with the right coach, the right mentor, and the right concepts that focus on leadership. So let me give you three that I teach fundamentally for every leader that falls into any of my training programs, that's in any audience that I give a keynote speech, is three basic principles to be effective as a leader. That every person you lead is going to ask you three questions every single day. Question number one is, do you care about me? Question number two is, will you help me? And question number three is, can I trust you? And if you don't answer yes to those three questions every day, it doesn't matter how many degrees you got, how many conferences you go to, you will not be an effective or an impactful leader. If you want to be an impactful leader, if you want to be an effective leader, you got to learn how to answer yes to those three questions. And people don't want to hear yes to the words of those three questions. They want to see yes in your actions. So how you lead every day to answer yes to those three questions is what I provide to you in my leadership learning library, in my courses, and the free resources that I provide for you at AntonGunn.com. So if you're looking to find a great leadership development program in healthcare, there's a lot of other places you can go, or you can go to a place that's going to help you to be the kind of leader that everyone will admire, to teach you those skills as an executive so you can have a lasting impact on every life that you touch. That's my interest. That's my goal and my focus for you. So if this made sense to you, and you want to connect with me to figure out how to start your leadership journey, follow me on LinkedIn or connect with me on LinkedIn. Send me a message and say, Anton, I'm ready to learn. I want to thank you for watching. Have a fantastic day. Take care.