Written By: Kristin Baird, RN, BSN, MHA How long does that heady rush that you feel when you land a top candidate last? A few months? A year? More? How about that sinking feeling you get when you realize that one of ...
The importance of nurse leadership is growing and changing. This infographic by Maryville University describes the different skills necessary to be an effective nurse leader as well as the generational differences that exist in the industry. http://online.maryville.edu/resources/nursing/infographics/the-role-of-nurse-leadership-in-todays-health-care-industry/ To learn more about the Baird ...
That’s the essence of this article by Joanne Finnegan published in Fierce Healthcare. Amazing things happen when we remember to ask patients what they want. http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/physician-leaders-ask-what-your-patients-want? To learn more about the Baird Model for Service Excellence, employee engagement or leadership development workshops, or ...
Written By: Kristin Baird Culture change is never fast. It’s never easy. It can, however, be controlled. Unfortunately, far too many CEOs and members of the leadership team abdicate their responsibility for controlling—or guiding—culture change because of their own behaviors, or ...
Written By: Janet Schulz, Senior Vice President - Consulting Division At Baird Group, we provide a variety of leadership development sessions. As a consultant here, I also have a lot of opportunities to attend leadership development presentations. Recently, I was fortunate to ...
Written By: Kristin Baird, MHA, BSN, RN If it’s good enough for millionaires, it should be more than good enough for healthcare professionals! Whether you call it the “Power Hour,” the “Sacred 60,” or something else, as this Forbes piece points out, ...
In April, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 5-star rating system for patient satisfaction. It’s a simplified approach to reporting The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) in a way that will, hopefully, ...
We’ve all been there—faced with a critical moment of truth when we might offer some much-needed feedback (constructive or corrective) to an employee, but we let the moment go. Maybe it’s because we don’t feel the setting is appropriate—perhaps we’re ...
Strategic planning may not be the favorite activity of many healthcare leaders, but it is arguably one of the most important. Unfortunately, too often the plan is created and then pushed aside—in the “old days” gathering dust on the shelf, ...
Rounding is nothing new in healthcare. It’s as old as some medical facilities themselves and also was a tactic used by Florence Nightingale as she went from one soldier to the next to provide care during the Crimean War! Rounding ...
