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LSA Global Delivers Executive Team Accountability Session for Healthcare Provider

LSA Global

This growing healthcare client wanted to create senior team alignment to meet aggressive growth targets while fending off increased competition and regulations. Executive team goals , roles, team norms , success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned. Individuals were not working collaboratively to meet goals.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business

Even though medical institutions have designated “leadership” as a core medical competency , leadership skills are rarely taught and reinforced across the continuum of medical training. First, interpersonal literacy is crucial for effective leadership in modern healthcare.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. But the scale at Intermountain Healthcare, where more than 2,500 huddles occur every morning, makes it especially illuminating and instructive.

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What the Data Tells Us About Immigrant Executives in the U.S.

Harvard Business

companies spent 24% of their budget training on leadership development. We focused on foreign-trained talent of Chinese, Indian, and Middle Eastern descent. Canada is the top channel of foreign-trained executives to American companies with the UK as a distant second. 27% or 965) trained in the EU and Europe more broadly.

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Getting Doctors to Make Better Decisions Will Take More than Money and Nudges

Harvard Business

So healthcare leaders have long wondered: what’s the best way to change clinicians’ behavior and improve their quality and efficiency of care? Relying too heavily on financial incentives to boost performance can often lead to gaming of metrics (e.g., What the Research Says. Let’s first look at financial incentives.

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4 Steps to Sustaining Improvement in Health Care

Harvard Business

Dr. John Toussaint, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, describes the pilot unit as the “model cell,” a place for experimentation, learning, and modeling new methods for the rest of the system. Choose a Pilot Unit Within the Organization. It’s important to select this pilot unit carefully.

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business

We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. The National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare, of which I am a founding member, is piloting a system of metrics for well-being developed by J. Develop metrics around technology deployments that are noted above.

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