Looking Forward: Health Promotion Project
As I’m approaching the end of my Master of Health studies journey, I’ve been thinking about the next steps I should take and how I should...
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Alexandra Thomson
Jan 16, 20235 min read
The Legacy of the Ottawa Charter: A Landmark Document
The Ottawa Charter has been praised as a catalyst for “a paradigm shift in the way in which public health problems are conceptualized and...
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Alexandra Thomson
Jan 16, 20232 min read
What is the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion?
A leader behind the creation of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, Ilona Kickbusch, describes it as “a living document with deep...
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Alexandra Thomson
Jul 6, 20227 min read
The Rise of Personalized Healthcare Using Genomics
Healthcare is shifting from being reactive to proactive. An emerging trend is personalized healthcare using genomics, which is the study...
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Alexandra Thomson
Jun 11, 20221 min read
Psychedelic Therapy
In the context of a therapeutic environment, a patient undergoing psychedelic therapy uses a psychedelic to experience a profound shift...
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Alexandra Thomson
May 19, 20223 min read
Using Health Trends to Inform Decision-Making
Designing a healthcare system that promotes equitable health outcomes and delivers relevant services requires monitoring and reporting on...
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Alexandra Thomson
Feb 20, 20225 min read
Role Model Being an Innovator
How do role models' behaviour and attitudes influence role aspirants' propensity for innovation? Role aspirants are people that are...
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Alexandra Thomson
Feb 3, 20225 min read
The Types of Change Agent that Best Reflect Me: How I Lead Change
Facilitating organizational change involves destabilizing the status quo by articulating a compelling vision whilst emphasizing change is...
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Alexandra Thomson
Nov 9, 20213 min read
Developing Emotional Intelligence
Performance = Potential – Interferences This simple formula, proposed by Gallwey (2001) in his book The Inner Game of Work, concisely...
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Alexandra Thomson
Nov 3, 20211 min read
Optimizing Staffing Levels
Please download my assignment here: Note: Please click on the speaker icon on the bottom right hand corner of each slide to hear the 60s...
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Alexandra Thomson
Sep 29, 20216 min read
Leadership with a Focus on Productivity and Team Well-Being
My leadership philosophy is that a leader should encourage each team member to be the best version of themself to optimize their...
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Alexandra Thomson
Sep 26, 20213 min read
Role of Spiritual Leadership in the Workplace
Integrating spirituality in the workplace is controversial and there are many challenges associated with a leader that practices...
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Alexandra Thomson
Sep 19, 20214 min read
Leading Through a Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic is a clear example of a crisis that created extreme levels of uncertainty. There are ongoing challenges including...
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Alexandra Thomson
Sep 19, 20215 min read
Culture and Leadership Styles Well Suited for Healthcare
Change management in the health care setting is complex; it involves continuous improvement of standards of practice and culturally...
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Alexandra Thomson
Sep 18, 20213 min read
Leadership vs. Management
A leader is someone who "does the right thing" and a manager "does things right" (Bennis & Nanus, 2003). Very often, differentiating...
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Alexandra Thomson
Sep 17, 20213 min read
Appreciative Inquiry: Glass is Half Full
A "glass half full" way to analyze an organization is to focus on what is there as opposed to what is missing. Stated another way, the...
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Alexandra Thomson
Sep 15, 20214 min read
Ethical Leadership
Authentic, attentive, and empathic leaders are more likely to emphasize the importance of ethical decision-making (Kovach, 2018). ...
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Alexandra Thomson
Sep 15, 20214 min read
Evolution of Leadership Theory
The “Great Man” theory of leadership is one of the first theories to describe how a leader comes to be (Grossman & Valiga, 2012). This...
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Alexandra Thomson
Sep 13, 20212 min read
Pseudo Leaders & Pseudo Teams
Some people in leadership positions are not true leaders themselves; they can be referred to as “pseudo leaders” because they have few...
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Alexandra Thomson
Jun 12, 202114 min read
Pre-Surgical Evaluation of Epilepsy Patients: Using EEG-fMRI for Optimization of Surgical Planning
Epilepsy is a network disease that cannot be reduced solely to the dysfunction of the seizure-onset zone (Shamshiri et al., 2019). This...
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