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Books
 
  Indispensable Health Care Manager The Indispensable Health Care Manager: Success Strategies for a Changing Environment Leebov and Scott; Hardcover; 288 pages; $40. ACHE 2003 Health Care Book of the Year! Identifies ten role shifts needed by managers who want to add significant value to their organizations and enhance their employability. Self-assessments, case situations and concrete tools that build key leadership competencies. Great for individual coaching or leadership development.
     
 
  Achieving Impressive Customer Service Achieving Impressive Customer Service: Seven Strategies for the Health Care Manager Leebov, Scott, and Olson; paper; 312 pages; $35.95 Best Seller! Seven powerful strategies critical to effective service management. Easy-to-use tools for hiring for customer service, removing barriers, soliciting customer feedback, installing standards, scripts and protocols, and much more.
     
 
  Service Savvy Health Care Service Savvy Health Care: One Goal at a Time Leebov, Afriat, and Presha; Paper; 276 pages. $34.95. All the specifics you need to pursue three “breakthrough” service improvement objectives. Toolkits focus on “creating great first impressions”, “great explanations”, and “effective service recovery/complaint management.”
     
 
  Service Quality Improvement Service Quality Improvement: The Customer Satisfaction Strategy for Health Care Leebov and Scott; Paper; 362 pages. $52.95. A goldmine of approaches to help you build a service-oriented culture and focus all employees on service excellence and continuous service improvement.
     
 
  Series

Customer Service Guides for Frontline Employees by Wendy Leebov.

Great standalone resources on specific customer service skills; terrific texts for employee development. Scripts, protocols and mind-stretching exercises.

         
 
  Assertiveness Skills Assertiveness Skills for Professionals in Health Care paper; 53 pages; $11.95. Helps employees be effectively assertive in interactions with patients, families, physicians, and coworkers. Clarifies assertiveness, aggressiveness and passivity. Case situations, self-assessment tools and practice exercises. Great for individuals/groups.
     
 
  Customer Service Customer Service for Professionals in Health Care paper; 65 pages. $12.95. Reinforces a customer orientation and develops key customer-oriented behaviors. Self-assessment and practice exercises make employees more conscious of customer needs and adept at meeting these needs daily. Terrific text for staff development.
     
 
  Telephone Skills Telephone Skills for Professionals in Health Care paper; 62 pages. $12.95. How to handle the phone with professionalism, tact and impressive customer service. Scripts, self-assessment tools and practice exercises. Great for staff development.
     
 
  Resolving Complaints Resolving Complaints for Professionals in Health Care paper; 58 pages. $11.95. For frontline employees, shows that customer complaints are a second chance to make things right. Builds tact, compassion, creative problem-solving and follow through. Case situations, self-assessments and practice exercises for sharpening complaint-handling. Great for individuals and groups.
     
 
  Working Together Working Together for Professionals in Health Care paper; 48 pages. $9.95. How you can personally influence the quality of your relationships with others to enhance job satisfaction, customer satisfaction and workplace harmony. Scripts, self-assessments, and practice exercises. A great gift for individuals and terrific for training and team-building.
     
 
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  Health Care Managers in Transition Health Care Managers in Transition: Shifting Roles for Changing Organizations Leebov and Scott; Hardcover; 232 pages; Best-Seller; $40.95. An easy read for managers that explains critical demands of their jobs in today’s challenging, turbulent environment. Self-assessment devices, case examples and concrete tools for making critical role shifts.
     
 
  Patient Satisfaction Patient Satisfaction: The Practice Enhancement Guide for Physicians Leebov, Vergare, and Scott; Medical Economics Books; 1990, $54.95. Concrete tools for creating a medical practice that attracts, pleases and retains patients and their families.
     
 
  Continuous Quality Improvement The Health Care Manager’s Guide to Continuous Quality Improvement Leebov, and Ersoz; Paper; 234 pages, $24.95. How to manage for continuous improvement in clinical and service processes. Models and tools for customer-driven management and process improvement teams.
     
 
  Service Excellence Service Excellence: The Customer Relations Strategy for Health Care Leebov; Paper; 349 pages. 1988. Reprinted 2003. $21.95. Originally called “the bible of service excellence”. Tools and strategies that align everyday practices with your service priority. How to strengthen “Ten Pillars of Service Excellence” including leadership, accountability, customer feedback, training, recognition, communication, physician performance, and employee satisfaction.
     
 
Tools
 
  Tools

 

The Language of Empathy: 77 Practice Exercises for Healthcare Employees Leebov and Hensler-Cullen; 2003; notebook with reproducible worksheets and facilitator’s guide. $29. Collection of 5-minute practice situations that help caregivers expand their feeling vocabularies and express empathy to patients and families. Great with individuals and groups for quick coaching and practice.

       
   

 

Service Improvement Toolkits for Healthcare Managers Leebov. 2003. Ready-to-use tools for managers and service improvement teams determined to institute improvements in key dimensions of customer service; overall strategy, thorough explanations of each tool, templates and worksheets. Each toolkit alos has a 90 minute plan for a manager "briefing" that orients managers to the toolkit.

Manager’s Toolkit on Improving Explanations to Patients and Other Customers$50

Manager’s Toolkit for Improving Customer Service on the Phone $50

Manager’s Toolkit for Improving the Way Staff Members Handle Complaints $50

Manager’s Toolkit on “First Impressions Last” $50

Manager’s Toolkit on Strengthening Interdepartmental Cooperation $50