Tag: healthcare
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How Olympic Cycling Can Save Healthcare Organizations
It’s no secret, is it? Healthcare organizations and institutions are struggling – some more than others. However, all are faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges. Demand outstripping resources, failing cultures and disengaged staff, everywhere blockages and lack of flow. These are but a few of the common themes. Big money, large initiatives, great minds – all…
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What is Organisational Wellbeing?
In an organisation that I have been working with recently, we have been paying attention to wellbeing – and creating a ‘wellbeing plan’. Clearly an important aim, even if the term wellbeing is beginning to feel overused and at risk of inducing cynicism in those who are hoped to be the recipients of the well-intentioned…
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Forced Change in Healthcare
Healthcare is a pillar of every society. It is universally hoped that the existing healthcare system works optimally in that community. Everyone shares these ideals. However, many of the strengths of embedded healthcare systems can hinder progress in the face of changed circumstances and new challenges. It appears that we are in the midst of…
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Recently, I met a coaching client for her second session. As we greeted each other it was immediately apparent that her energy and mood had shifted from the first session. She seemed lighter, her shoulders were higher and posture straighter. There were smiles instead of tears. In the initial session, we had talked about pressures…
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Known Certainty
Recently, I met a coaching client for her second session. As we greeted each other it was immediately apparent that her energy and mood had shifted from the first session. She seemed lighter, her shoulders were higher and posture straighter. There were smiles instead of tears. In the initial session, we had talked about pressures…
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Leadership in Healthcare
What is Leadership in Healthcare? How can you become a better leader? This article discusses many of the misconceptions and shows a better way forward to developing authentic leadership
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Transformation of Organisational Culture
How can we transform a toxic organisational culture? Use this guide based on what we learn from childhood fairy tales
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Improving Strategic Decisions in Healthcare
Why is it Difficult for Doctors and Administrators to Agree? A problem within our healthcare systems is an often-unrecognised divide between senior administrators/executives and the doctors caring for patients in the very same organisations. Why is this, when all have the best interests of the patient cohort and the institution at heart? What can be…
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The Economics of Burnout in Healthcare
Care for our fellow humans cannot, of course, be reduced solely to figures or numbers. However, we are in the midst of a burnout epidemic in healthcare across the world and it may help us to acknowledge the seriousness of this point in time with the aid of an economic analysis. We all hear daily…
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How Do We Create a Team?
Some teams appear to come together effortlessly, while other groupscannot seem to coalesce even with major interventions devoted tothe task. The process of forming functional teams can be one of thehardest tasks within an organisation. Becoming a successful team happens more easily when members establish good communication patterns and acknowledge the qualities and abilities of…
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