Team grit, combining passion and perseverance, predicts healthcare success. This article defines grit, offers strategies to identify it, and describes fostering gritty teams.
This article examines how healthcare leaders can build psychological safety, detailing its history, four stages, guiding principles, 15 strategies, myth debunking, hands-on exercises, and assessment questions.
The author outlines the signs to watch out for to help you assess whether your boss is toxic, and offers strategies to try if you’re finding yourself in this impossibly difficult situation.
Like many other companies, Deloitte realized that its system for evaluating the work of employees — and then training them, promoting them, and paying them accordingly — was increasingly out of step with its objectives. It searched for something nimb...
Researchers examine the negative impact that handing over choice responsibility can have on delegator-delegate relationships. They offer research-backed solutions for delegating decisions more fairly in order to offset some of delegation’s negative i...
To learn more about the problems that affect leadership teams, the authors interviewed more than 100 CEOs and senior executives in a multiyear research program. They identified three main patterns of dysfunction. This article helps leadership teams d...
Although most managers believe that they give each of their team members equal attention, respect, and consideration, four decades’ worth of empirical research says otherwise. Studies show that nearly all bosses have—or are seen to have—in-groups and...
Dealing with the negative emotions of employees isn’t easy, but knowing what to do or say can make a huge difference to their well-being, the quality of your relationships with them, and team performance. The trouble is, many leaders fail to respond ...
As recognized leaders, all physicians have a clear opportunity to further influence the quality of care for patients, as well as the education and development of others. However, the times require more adaptability when working with and/or leading in...
The transition from volume to value in healthcare has highlighted the importance of strong and genuine alliances between healthcare organizations and physicians. However, the absence of established guidelines for building such relationships has resul...
Studies have demonstrated that reducing the drivers of burnout does not enhance engagement, but that improving employee engagement does reduce burnout. To refocus the discussion toward improving engagement, this article reviews engagement through a t...
