Healthcare Leaders: 5 benefits from reading fiction.
Take a broader view, build your leadership skills and feel restored - all from reading a book.
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Why Healthcare Leaders Should Read Fiction
While it may not feel like you have the time to read your emails let alone a novel, this week I’m making the case for picking up a novel. Looking at why reading can be restorative and support your leadership skills and development. Giving you an edge and a boost to manage all that is going on in the healthcare sector at the moment.
“The quality of our reading stands as an index to the quality of our thought”
Maryanne Wolf, cognitive scientist.
The evidence is out for why reading fiction supports you as a leader, developing capacities and capabilities that will support you with the challenges and context of healthcare right now.
Increasing understanding and building empathy
Build your emotional capacity
Enhance your decision-making
Improve your writing
It’s a restorative activity and can reduce your stress
Links and Resources
5 qualities of high-impact healthcare leaders
Why leaders should read fiction
Want to be a leader? Read more fiction.
How reading makes you a better leader
Find Katie on Goodreads and the new fiction for healthcare leaders bookcase
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