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 Paradise
Achieving increased efficiency, workforce stability, and financial success often feels like a performance mirage for healthcare organizations – in sight, but always out of reach. Many hospitals and health systems have attempted productivity initiatives, but have been left “shipwrecked” by past experiences; mired by ineffective data and lacking proper guidance. Lasting change comes from continuous improvement.
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.
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.
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.
Working to the Top of Your Title
In healthcare, successful leadership is both independent and collaborative. Effective leaders understand the importance of their unique role, but rely on the input and contributions of others to truly excel. Knowing the responsibilities associated with a specific management title or position distinguishes workload distribution and controls expectations.
The ALTIUS Holiday Productivity Playlist
The ALTIUS team is excited to unveil the second installment of our Productivity Playlist. This time around we are channeling the spirit of the season through some classic holiday songs, tapping into the power of productivity once again by tying its principles to festive music. Andy Williams: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Routine productivity monitoring supports a streamlined budget process by aligning staffing needs with projected volumes.
Productivity Checklist
This time of year, checklists help manage the back-to-school madness. They provide structure and direction on preparing for the coming year, especially while parents and students alike are still preoccupied with maximizing the waning days of summer. Checklists are also effective in other areas – they transcend in application and detail the elements required and/or steps to be taken in order to reach a goal.
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.
New Year, New You: 5 Ways to Improve Your Organization in 2021
As we bid good riddance to the stress and uncertainty of 2020, it is safe to say that everyone is excited to begin the new year. However, the challenges of last year have helped to guide growth, both personal and professional. That is why it is more important than ever to use the start of 2021 as a time for reflection and evaluation, determining how to further improve upon a foundation forged in the chaos of the pandemic.