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Addressing Challenges Of Today's
Physician Leaders
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Pressures
on physician leaders are
greater
now than they have ever been. Changes to the healthcare
industry
and a greater focus on innovation and quality delivery have driven many
physician-executives to try and implement
new ways of
doing things that build
excellence, and ensure
competitiveness of their organizations in
today’s changeable market.
Whether you are a Chief Medical Officer, Physician-Executive, Director
of an Independent Practice Association, Leader of a Physician Network,
or simply a physician that has experienced the difficulties of managing
change
in your organization, each of you have felt the pressure to make the right change happen
smoothly in your health systems.
Maybe you are experiencing it right now.
See if any of
these challenges
sound familiar:
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You see that there is a gap
that needs to be bridged between the strategies of the
administration/executive team and the daily practice of the frontline
clinical staff ...
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You are under greater pressure to lead the
efforts
that drive new ways of thinking and delivering care in your health
system, and to motivate
others to do the same…
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You’ve
been bumping up against the
fact that
the speed
with which your initiatives must be implemented is in direct
opposition to the “norm” of how new
practice/treatments are
typically adopted over time in health care …which can be up
to
15 years!
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You struggle
with effective ways to communicate
your strategy, and are constantly dealing with the "what's in it for
them" attitude from your staff
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You are
tasked with being a strategic thinker
and
risk-taker … and have been dealing with the fall-out that
comes
from your more “risk-averse”
colleagues who are
unaccustomed to adopting change so rapidly
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Your efforts
at initiating changes in your
system
have been limited
by the autonomy your front-line physicians and
clinical staff have, allowing them to remain detached from
initiatives
and either fail to “buy-in” to the program or fail
to
follow-through on making practice changes
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Your
front-line physicians and clinical staff
do not
embrace the idea of change, and resistance
is high to changing the
status quo
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You are
working in an inherently complex
environment,
where cookie-cutter, “corporate-based” approaches
to
change
do not work, and you need to find a more meaningful
way of doing things for your group
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You have
discovered that the informal
systems
in your
group (social networks, etc.) have a lot of “clout”
when it
comes to successfully rolling out new programs, and you need to figure
out how to either harness
their energy, or limit the damage that they
can do
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You are
frustrated that evidence-based
and well-planned out
initiatives fail to
“stick” or
remain
sustainable over time
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You are losing competitive edge
to other health
care
providers, based on inefficient, chaotic or
“old-school”
ways of doing things
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There is a way to make change in
your health
system roll
out more smoothly, with less “resistance, more
“buy-in”, and greater sustainability in the
long-term.
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