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Lead Infinitely is a teamwork and leadership workshop series that aims to bring care teams together to educate on leadership and teamwork principles while also strengthening bonds and building respectful and trusting professional relationships. Its curriculum is designed for intact frontline care teams, and individuals partipate with an interprofessional team from their clinical service line. 

Teams participate in a five-session series, each lasting one hour and scheduled to fit within the work day. Topics include:

  • Leading Collectively: teaming, collective intelligence, and the mutual learning mindset
  • Leading with Humility: narcissism and humility in leadership
  • Leading with Civility: the price of incivility and benefits of civility in teams
  • Leading with Discovery: managing change through the concepts of discovery-driven planning and idea flow

The goal of the series is for clinical care teams to walk away equipped with a strategic plan to optimize patient care by forging trusting, respectful professional relationships to enhance team communication and performance.

Book Recommendations

  • Leading Infinitely

    • Carse, J. P. (1986). Finite and infinite games: A vision of life as play and possibility. Free Press. 
    • Sinek, S. (2019). The Infinite Game. New York: Portfolio/Penguin.
  • Leading Collectively

    • Larson, J.R. (2010). In Search of Synergy in Small Group Performance. Psychology Press, New York, NY.
    • Edmondson, A. C. (2012). Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate, and compete in the knowledge economy. Jossey-Bass. 
    • Schwarz, Roger M. (2013). Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated.
  • Leading with Humility

    • Collins, J. (2001). Good to great: Why some companies make the leap...and others don't. HarperBusiness. 
    • Holiday, R. (2016). Ego is the enemy. Profile Books.
    • Willink, J., & Babin, L. (2018). The dichotomy of leadership: Balancing the challenges of extreme ownership to lead and win. St. Martin's Press.
  • Leading with Civility

    • Porath, C. (2016). Mastering civility: A manifesto for the workplace. New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing.
  • Leading with Discovery

    • Miller, D. (1990). The Icarus Paradox: How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall. Random House Value Publishing. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.
    • Grove, A. S. (1996). Only the paranoid survive: How to exploit the crisis points that challenge every company. Doubleday. 
    • McGrath, R. G. (2019). Seeing around corners: How to spot inflection points in business before they happen. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 
    • Utley, J., & Klebahn, P. (2022). Ideaflow: the only business metric that matters.Portfolio / Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

Literature

Collectively Intelligent Anesthesia Care Teams

Discover how fostering collectively intelligent teamwork in anesthesia care can transform patient safety and provider well-being. This article explores groundbreaking research on team communication, social sensitivity, and dynamic collaboration, revealing how embracing curiosity, empathy, and mutual learning leads to safer, more effective care. Download

 

Sherrer MattWhether your team works at UAB or outside of our institution, we are dedicated to sharing the Lead Infinitely concepts with clinical care teams that are interested. If you would like more details on the workshop series, please contact Matt Sherrer, M.D., MBA, FASA, FAACD, at dsherrer@uabmc.edu.