An essential attribute of strong healthcare leaders is adeptness at managing their priorities, their schedule and their plans.

Leaders need a clear process for approaching the types of difficult decisions that may break new ground or cause disruption and discomfort.

Jill Geisler offers guidance on how best to respond to a staff member's resignation.

Jill Geisler explores the issue of micromanagement, which she says is often to be avoided but can sometimes be appropriate.

The 2026 Theme: Next Level Leadership

Wise healthcare leaders exude confidence and humility and aren’t intimidated by colleagues whose expertise surpasses their own.

In every class I lead about inclusive leadership, I talk about the burden of “invisible work” faced by traditionally underrepresented employees. Managers, including those with the best of intentions, ask women, people of color, and…

I don’t even have to ask if you are managing change these days. If you’re a supervisor of any sort, it comes with the territory. It might involve technology, systems, job roles and responsibilities, collaboration, consolidation, regulation or even…

Jill Geisler walks managers through some key rules of change - and the manager's role in addressing them.

Leading with confidence inspires team members to do their best, while leading with hubris and arrogance fails to inspire.

Federal leaders have provided an abundance of flawed leadership, bad management, and questionable ethics in the past few months—decisions and actions that cause short—and long-term harm that’s still being calculated.

Governing, as defined by Oxford Languages, is having authority to conduct the policy, actions, and affairs of a state, organization, or people. But how one goes about governing is another matter. In this Spotlight, Markkula Center staff and scholars analyze the role of compassion in the current presidential administration’s approach.

Regular hfm columnist Jill Geisler advocates for leaders to show empathy in how they treat staff in situations requiring downsizing.

Jill Geisler acknowledges that personality assessments can be useful but never for determining whether people are leadership material.

HFMA contributor and leadership expert Jill Geisler offers 10 ways to tell if you’re on track to be a successful leader.

HFMA contributor Jill Geisler says leaders often face issues that come down to basic business etiquette and offers a framework for considering how the concept can enhance workplace interactions.

Confront the reality, based on past experience, of an administration that may be hostile to a free and independent press. Tell people you won’t stand down on values.

Listen to people — individually. Each has a unique reaction to this moment. Don’t assume you know how they feel until they choose to tell you. Support them.

Ask managers how they’re doing these days, and you’re likely to get the universal answer: “Busy. Really busy.” Today’s leaders must navigate meetings, projects, personnel issues,…

I’m accustomed to hearing people refer to office politics when talking about challenges at work. It’s a negative descriptor, one that implies success is determined by game-playing. Such…