Five Lessons Learned in 10 Years of Experience: Invest in doing it right Culture matters Leaders need to lead Create a culture of psychological safety Sustain new habits with group coaching from certified coaches with proven experience Many years ago Abraham Maslow showed that adult learning is very different from the way children learn. Adults need to go through four […]
Five Lessons Learned in 10 years of Experience: Invest in doing it right Culture matters Leaders need to lead Create a culture of psychological safety Sustain new habits with group coaching from certified coaches with proven experience The challenges that Healthcare faces are the same throughout the country: limited resources, increasing regulatory burdens, dysfunctional payment incentives, suboptimal EMRs, healthcare provider […]
Five Lessons Learned in 10 years of experience: Invest in doing it right Culture matters Leaders need to lead Create a culture of psychological safety Sustain new habits with group coaching from certified coaches with proven experience It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to recognize the extraordinary stress today’s practicing physicians are experiencing. They find themselves seeing more patients in […]
The Center for Physician Leadership has been working together with health care leaders in supporting health care providers with the overwhelming challenges they are now facing. After Interacting with hundreds of physicians, APCs, and administrative leaders we thought we actually had an accurate understanding of just how severe the recent challenges have been, but we were wrong. Just this week […]
The term “burnout” in medicine may be defined as chronic, long-term, unresolvable job stress that leads to overwhelming exhaustion, and a lack of fulfillment. Job stressors such as administrative work, long hours, and, most importantly, loss of empowerment all work to reinforce feelings of futility. Ultimately, the stressors lead to feelings of being victims of change, or of having no […]
Willing to be wrong is more important than needing to be right. In his book, “The Road to Character,” New York Times columnist David Brooks talks about the two competing descriptions of Adam in Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible. There’s “Adam 1” who strives for worldly success and “Adam 2” who is focused on character and spiritual […]
In health care, there is nothing more complex than the simple. In a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, What is Value in Health Care?, Michael Porter, a Harvard trained Ph.D. in business economics, makes a compelling case for defining, measuring and rewarding value in health care. By shifting our focus on value, simply defined as quality divided by cost, […]