By Kristen Brady
These 3 steps may help healthcare managers concentrate
and streamline the impact-planning and goal-setting process -- then turn
employee engagement results to clinical improvements:
Begin
with the bigger picture
Healthcare leaders enjoy information. However, some
love information so much, they’ll get lost in the figures and forget the reason
behind collecting them. High performance managers can interpret and understand
their employee engagement results of surveys; however, they do not lose sight
of the eventual objective: developing better outcomes for employees and
patients. By routinely communicating the outcomes and purpose of higher
engagement, managers offer direction and set a firm foundation up for
improvement.
Talk
about your purpose
Most managers do not have talks about employee
engagement often enough or consistently with their staff. However, to maintain commitment
and momentum, managers have to make discussions concerning engagement that is central
to team communications. Good managers ensure their staff may answer the
following questions:
- What is in it for our patients?
- What it is in it for the organization?
- What is in it for the team?
Have
a goal at improving an operational or clinical outcome
As your staff knows the bigger picture and how
engagement produces improved outcomes, set an operational or clinical goal --
like decreasing patient falls, reducing readmissions, or cutting central
line-related bloodstream infections – as well as make accomplishing it a priority
for your department or unit. Talk about why this objective is critical, and ask
the team to identify team and individual strengths which may assist them in
meeting it. Below are a few questions to spark these talks:
- What certain actions might we take to improve the outcome?
- Where are our strengths as a team? How might we use those strengths to assist us in meeting our objective?
- What objective should our employees concentrate on for the following several months? What might make the largest difference for our patients?
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About the Author:
Kristen
Brady is the founder and owner of Kaboom
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