Vital Signs

A Guide to Healthy Organizations for Physicians

In Vital Signs: A Guide to Healthy Organizations for Physicians, executive coach and consultant Jim Ice leverages his extensive organizational leadership expertise to provide a comprehensive framework for excellence and productivity for health care organizations.

Discover the Vital Signs of Exceptional Organizations

What if your organization’s culture and strategy worked in perfect harmony? What if your workplace environment inspired extraordinary results? What if you could become the visionary physician leader who diagnoses and resolves the systemic issues threatening your organization’s future?

Today’s complex health care environment demands physician leaders who can create empowering workplaces while maintaining focus on exceptional patient care. Vital Signs equips you with a Leadership Protocol to identify and address organizational challenges before they escalate, enabling you to foster a resilient, high-performing team that thrives amid constant change.

Through practical insights, evidence-based approaches, and implementable frameworks, this guidebook explores the critical factors that determine organizational health:

• The HEART Protocol™ — Evaluate the five critical systems of team health

• Vital Signs — Establish organizational health baselines and monitoring systems

• Symptoms — Identify both visible and hidden signs of organizational HEART disease

• Treatment Options — Implement targeted interventions and preventative measures to ensure a healthy, productive organization.