Posted by Kristin Baird How does a leader get everyone to achieve optimal performance? One sure way is to make clear expectations from the beginning. Over the past several years of coaching leaders, I’ve noticed that many coaching conversations center on setting ...
Posted by Kristin Baird When you ask most people in healthcare why they chose their careers, they will tell you that they wanted to help others. That internal drive to serve others can get buried in the daily grind, especially for ...
Posted by Kristin Baird Face it. Dig beneath any organizational issue and you’re likely to unearth varying degrees of communication problems. Organizations are, after all, comprised of people and dependent upon good relationships among those people to achieve organizational goals. Gossip ...
Posted by Angela Fieler The data is in. It’s official. There is a relationship between improving employee engagement, improving HCAHPS scores, and improving net profit margins. Press Ganey just published a study in Harvard Business Review, showing hospitals that improve over time in ...
Posted by Kristin Baird Communication is at the core of the patient/provider relationship. While both verbal and non-verbal communication come into play during every encounter, it is often the subtle things that make the biggest impact. I was shadow/coaching a hospitalist a ...
Posted by Kristin Baird Having an engaged workforce and loyal patients doesn’t happen by chance. And it won’t happen with just one smile-lesson-type class. You need to foster a culture of feedback. While training is an important element in creating a great, consistent patient ...
Posted by Kristin Baird Culture is created and sustained by the stories told by its people. When you think about your organization, what stories are being shared? How are you seeking stories? What channels are you using to share stories that advance ...
Posted by Kristin Baird Have you ever checked in for a medical appointment at the scheduled time only to be left waiting? I’m willing to bet that anyone reading this blog will say yes to this question. The challenge in most ...
Posted by Kristin Baird It’s no secret that an engaged workforce is necessary for a consistently positive patient experience. And nurses are pivotal in this equation. Nurses who develop resilience can prevent burnout. This allows them to engage with patients on ...
Posted by Kristin Baird A colleague recently called to talk about how he could get nurses more engaged in the patient experience. When I asked what he was currently doing, he mentioned several ways he was keeping them apprised of the ...
