During this festive season, there is one gift that keeps giving long after the holidays end: productivity. It is not the frantic, last-minute present that leaves staff scrambling, but one that continuously supports decision-making, improves efficiency, and drives meaningful change. Productivity is timeless, practical, and impactful - here is how to make it the gift that truly matters to your organization and ensure it checks all of the items off your operational wish list: Meaningful Data Healthcare leaders need reliable, accurate, and timely data to guide strategies that enhance both outcomes and operations.
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The Altius Recipe for Perfect Productivity
This time of year, kitchens everywhere are buzzing with activity; mixing, baking, tasting, and sometimes – improvising. In healthcare, building a productive department is not all that different from cooking up a holiday feast. It takes the right ingredients, teamwork, and a willingness to adapt when things get a little lumpy.
Productivity: A Sensory Experience
Leadership is not just a skill—it is a full-body experience. The best healthcare leaders use all five senses to stay attuned to their teams, effectively manage their operations, and ultimately achieve their goals. Leadership is about seeing the opportunities ahead, hearing what your team really needs, feeling the pulse of the workplace, tasting the difference between good and great decisions, and smelling potential issues before they become actual problems.
Productivity: A Leadership Development Homerun
Spring training is currently underway! Baseball professionals are honing their skills, enhancing their knowledge, and focusing on the necessary stats to be successful this season. Is your team “game ready?” Like the MLB, hospitals and health systems should consistently develop their leaders, giving them the tools and training needed for them to reach their full potential. What most organizations do not realize is that leadership development is embedded in productivity management.
Productivity: Lessons from the Circus
Healthcare is a high-stakes industry with “death-defying” feats performed every day. Much like a circus, leaders juggle a lot of competing priorities - strong financial performance, employee engagement, patient/staff satisfaction, and high-quality outcomes. Finding operational balance is an ongoing struggle that often feels like a tightrope act that must be mastered.
The Productivity Party – Part One!
During the summer months, there is a lot to celebrate. Whether the gathering is to recognize an achievement, a milestone, or simply to share a bit of comradery, parties, like productivity, bring people together. This year, while you are toasting a birthday, the great weather, or just spending time with family and friends, consider serving up one of the ALTIUS team’s productivity-approved cocktails/mocktails! Margarita Refreshing and bold, this zesty party staple has a long history, likely dating back to the 1930s, when there were no bottled mixes or blenders.
The ALTIUS Guide to Drafting Your Fantasy Team – Part II
ALTIUS is back with the second installment of our Fantasy team series. To adequately discuss “team selection” through recruitment and retention strategies, we must first delve into the art of coaching: the good, the bad, and the misconceptions! Whether you are a hospital executive or department/service-line manager, it’s a high stress/big reward position. Leaders are the face of operations, setting the tone and establishing expectations.
The ALTIUS Guide to Drafting Your Fantasy Team
It’s that time of year again! The weather is cooling down, the leaves are changing, and football season has officially begun. In the spirit of the ever-popular Fantasy leagues, ALTIUS is kicking off a new series of effective tips to help healthcare leaders “draft” the most capable teams. “Who’s on your bench?” That’s the first topic we will tackle! Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of your current staff as well as having a “game plan” for any anticipated vacancies is crucial to sustained efficiency.
It’s All Relative!
Simply stated, productivity is the measure of input to output. It is typically tracked to gauge changes in performance over time. The most common way that healthcare organizations assess productivity is through internal comparisons against historical operations.
The “Lucky Charms” of Leadership
The recent challenges to and changes in the delivery of healthcare have spotlighted the demand for more enhanced leadership development moving forward. Throughout the pandemic, staff have displayed their resilience and ability to adapt, made possible by the innovative leaders that guided organizations through recovery towards stability without any predetermined path. This “trial by fire” approach was necessary given the unprecedented situation at hand, but has, in hindsight, proven the value of certain traits that need to be cultivated in future leaders.