THIS is a good thing! Take a look at this U.S. Census Bureau data:
Here are some excellent resources and a Harvard Business Review article to help you be more effective in negotiating your next salary. Many of these tips can also be applicable to those negotiating a raise, or other kinds of compensation, for example more time off instead of health-care if your spouse covers you, or, more flex time.
How to Negotiate Your Next Salary – Amy Gallo – Best Practices – Harvard Business Review.
You may also want to check out my August 1st radio interview with social scientist, Jonathan Jordan on Recent Breakthroughs in the Neuroscience of Negotiation.
The challenges of the healthcare industry today require hospitals and health systems to apply all available resources to a strategy toward reducing cost and improving quality. One of healthcare organizations’ greatest resources — and often the key to the success of new initiatives — is their employees. Attracting and retaining skilled employees necessitates a nurturing environment that encourages and rewards innovation through both material and nonmaterial benefits.
While tangible benefits, such as health insurance and compensation, are important to employee satisfaction, what may be more important are intangible benefits, such as respect and recognition. “It’s not about the money,” says Paul Spiegelman, founder and CEO of BerylHealth, a company focused on the patient experience. “People want to feel valued.” In fact, most of the following pillars of success involve abstract concepts that, while difficult to define, may ultimately separate a “good” workplace from a “great” one.
READ MORE HERE:
10 Pillars of Success for Top Healthcare Workplaces | Hospital Management & Administration.
The former head of product development at Genentech talks about the rise of sequencing, how the FDA should change, and what the future of health care delivery will look like.
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann On How Healthcare Is Changing – Forbes
What do you think of her ideas? Do you agree? Please share your comments.
Remarkable bosses aren’t great on paper. Great bosses are remarkable based on their actions.
Results are everything—but not the results you might think. Check Out this excellent Jeff Hayden article for INC.
How Great Bosses Motivate Employees | Inc.com.
I think he has it nailed. How about you?
Do you do these things? Have another opinion? Have additional ideas?
If, so please share with us in the “Comments” section.
According to this recent Small Giant Community Article there are four keys to a great hire, which is the foundation of a great culture:
• Know Who You Are
• Cast Your Net With Familiarity
• Let Hiring Reinforce Your Values
• It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye (But it shouldn’t be)
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By Victoria Stagg Elliott, amednews staff. Posted Feb. 23, 2012.
Hospitals are no longer waiting for physicians to get themselves trained for leadership positions.
Some are providing in-house leadership education, hoping that increasing numbers of aligned physicians will do more than clock in, provide good patient care and then clock out. Hospitals seek independent physicians connected with the institution for training as well as those they employ.
“It’s clear that we need physicians to do more than just run the medical staff,” said James Rice, PhD, project director for the consulting firm Management Sciences for Health, who has written several reports on physician leadership issues. “But for physicians to go into leadership and management roles, serve on committees for the medical staff, take on part-time medical directorships, run accountable care organizations, be on process improvement teams, a new set of competencies%
via Hospitals ramp up physician training for leadership roles – amednews.com.
Here’s some really great news, (and we could all use some), about the U.S economy that just came out from the University of Michigan News Service. Clearly things are picking up from what I hear anecdotally from clients, but it’s good to hear these positive projections from such a credible source. Read on for more detail and please share this with others who are discouraged or feeling “stuck.”
Coaching tip: Seek out positive news, and when you find it, allow it to sink in.
Have a great day!
Lisa
University of Michigan News Service | Recovery continues for U.S. economy, adding 5 million jobs.