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Healthcare leader tending flowers, sprouts, and weeds as a metaphor for a healthy workplace culture

How to Build a Healthy Work Culture: Stop Watering the Weeds

Healthcare leader tending flowers, sprouts, and weeds as a metaphor for a healthy workplace culture
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How to Build a Healthy Work Culture: Stop Watering the Weeds

Every leader wants to build a healthy work culture. Yet every leader also has employees who resist new initiatives, question every decision, complain to co-workers, or quietly undermine change. If you’re not careful, those few...
Triangulation in healthcare
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Triangulation in Healthcare: The Silent Culture Killer Leaders Must Address

One of the most damaging communication habits in healthcare rarely shows up in an incident report. It’s called triangulation. And triangulation in healthcare can quietly damage trust, relationships, and workplace culture. Triangulation happens when an...
Leading people in healthcare
Healthy Work Environment

Leading People in Healthcare Is Different Than Managing Operations

Leading people in healthcare is very different than managing operations. Yet most leaders are promoted because they're exceptional clinicians or operational experts, not because they've been taught how to lead people. As we're developing our...
Healthy Work Environment

Why Charge Nurse Development Can No Longer Be Optional

Healthcare organizations invest significant time and resources in developing frontline leaders. Yet one of the most influential leadership roles in the organization often receives little to no formal preparation. Charge nurse development is frequently overlooked,...
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How to Strengthen the Preceptor – New Graduate Nurse Relationship

The preceptor-new graduate nurse relationship can make or break a nurse’s transition into practice. Think about that for a second. Before a new nurse fully connects with the organization, the manager, or even the team,...
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Incivility in Healthcare: The Gateway to Workplace Violence

One of the biggest misconceptions in healthcare is that incivility in healthcare is simply part of a stressful environment. Something to tolerate. Something to work around. But the data and lived experiences of healthcare teams...
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What HR Leadership Partnership Really Looks Like in Healthcare

In Part 1 of this 2-part series, we talked about why you cannot hardwire a healthy culture without HR. We also introduced the idea of Human Return on Investment (HROI) and why disruptive behaviors are...
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Why You Can’t Build a Healthy Work Culture in Healthcare Without HR

A healthy work culture in healthcare cannot be built through training alone. Organizations shape culture through the systems they design, reward, and enforce. HR leaders play a critical role in aligning leadership expectations, accountability structures,...