Healthcare leaders often find themselves juggling a myriad of responsibilities - evolving patient needs, staffing challenges, and the pressures of financial sustainability - making it hard to prioritize and focus efforts. That is why it is critical to implement routine “check-ups” for your organization, evaluating the current state of operations and identifying real-time opportunities for improvement. When leadership is guided by data-driven insights, strategies are more purposeful and the impacts more meaningful.
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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 in Healthcare: Brought to You by the Letter “Y”
The healthcare industry is constantly facing mounting pressures—rising costs, staffing challenges, the introduction of AI, and increasing patient expectations. Effective productivity management is about aligning resources with demand, optimizing processes, and leveraging technology to deliver the best care at the lowest possible cost. Healthcare leaders must prioritize productivity not just as an operational strategy for data-driven decision-making but as a means of continued stability.
You Had Me at Productivity
Productivity management in healthcare should be a love story. It is where staff hours and operational volumes come to get married, creating lasting alignment between resources and demand so that everyone can live happily ever after. Sadly, many organizations’ experiences with productivity have been more of a bad romance.
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.
Productivity: A Love/Hate Relationship
Love is in the air, and in healthcare, change is always on the horizon. A focus on productivity and workforce optimization may be part of your organization’s 2021 initiatives, but you may be personally struggling with getting behind the proposed strategies. You are not alone – many industry leaders and professionals have a love/hate relationship with performance improvement.
Celebrating Success
In these trying and unstable times, one thing has been evident; people have the innate ability to rise to a challenge with #positivity and professionalism. More than ever, it is critical that #healthcare leaders recognize the contributions and sacrifices their staff are making to ensure the health of the communities they live in and the prosperity of the organizations they serve. The ALTIUS team focuses on educating and elevating our clients, encouraging them to support each other by celebrating their #successes.
How do you determine the “right” productivity target?
At ATLIUS, we stress the importance of having the right person, in the right place, performing the right task, for the right clinical outcome. This approach is then ultimately supported by having the right productivity target in place. The question is, how do you determine each departmental target so that it results in the highest level of efficiency and the best overall outcomes? While there are various ways to establish productivity targets, we have seen the strongest performers follow our primary approach to target setting: varying targets by department.
Management Scare Tactics that Backfire
Many healthcare leaders adopt a "tough love" approach when managing employee performance and expectations. This method may work well for some staff members, but not all will embrace the negativity it can create. Understanding your team and the styles they respond positively to is critical in realizing continued operational success and employee satisfaction.