2025: A Springboard for Action
As we enter 2025, a new year, the key takeaways from a webinar I gave recently come to mind. It was all about creating a springboard for implementation that I presented to a group of participants in my Be the ...
Archive: Training
Addressing Skills Gaps in Healthcare: Making Lemonade Out of Lemons
For those in the trenches, the healthcare skills gap likely comes as no surprise. You’re well aware of the positions you’re struggling to keep filled and the challenges you’re facing in finding and retaining top talent. But the situation is a ...
Want ROI From Training? – Leaders Must Do These 4 Things
When healthcare leaders set out to train staff, it's important to have a plan to get a return on investment, or ROI from Training Customer service training only sticks when the training event is seen as the beginning and not the end. For over 25 years, I have been helping healthcare organizations ...
Delight or Drudgery? How Employees View Training Matters
Many things in healthcare require skill development and reinforcement. Sometimes those things require mandatory training to ensure quality and safety. But just because it's mandatory doesn’t mean it can’t be enjoyable. When you hear the word “mandatory,” how do you react? ...
Want an ROI on Training? Measure What Matters
U.S. corporations (including healthcare) spent $94 billion on training last year. The investment is significant, but are they getting their money’s worth and seeing an ROI on training? The ones that are getting the biggest bang for their buck are ...
Training vs. Learning – What 250 Healthcare Leaders Told Us
Just because you conduct training, doesn’t mean people are learning. And just because people learn something, doesn't mean they change their behavior. How can you ensure that every training results in behavior change? Start by finding out how they learn ...
The Best Investment Strategy May Not Be What You Think
Say the words investment strategy, and most of our minds immediately go to money and financial investments. But what if you shifted your thinking away from money to personal or professional development as an investment strategy? It’s January, so millions of ...
Is Training an Investment or Expense? Should the healthcare industry make a greater investment in staff training?
Corporate executives often argue over whether training is an investment or an expense, this debate is a particularly hot topic in the healthcare arena due to the high cost of employee training. Today’s workforce expects employers to invest in their ...
Leading Through Upheaval: Get Vulnerable
Leading Through Upheaval: Get Vulnerable Healthcare has been in a constant state of change to the point of upheaval for months on end, putting even the most resilient and courageous to the test. Workers and their leaders are exhausted, discouraged, and ...
3 Questions to Ask Before Assuming Bad Attitude
3 Questions to Ask Before Assuming Bad Attitude I was coaching a new manager who said she was getting really frustrated with the bad attitudes of her team. She wanted them to deliver better customer service and felt they were being ...
