Does Your Clinical Laboratory or Pathology Group Have the Effective Leaders It Needs During These Challenging Times?

On May 5-6 in New Orleans, leadership will be a major theme when “the U.S. Army War College meets the Executive War College on Lab and Pathology Management” in a special workshop for executive leaders of labs and pathology groups Some would argue that leadership in medical laboratories today has something in common with the opening line of a famous 19th century novel. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” is the first sentence in “A Tale of Two Cities,” Charles Dickens’ famous...

Teaching Lab Managers to Be Coaches Gains Favor as Productivity Booster

Coaching Proves Effective Way To Improve Performance Of Lab Managers and Lab Staff In the midst of a sustained labor shortage—and facing the impending retirement of highly-experienced baby boomer managers—innovative clinical laboratories and pathology labs are taking special efforts to develop the management and leadership skills of their most promising younger managers. Coaching, rather than mentoring, is more often the preferred approach to achieve this goal. “Coaching programs in the lab...
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