Executive Retreats
I facilitate retreats. These engagements may involve senior leadership teams (eg the C- suite or the Board) or leaders at all levels of an organization. The goal is to create an environment that helps each team solve their most challenging issues. No marketing speak or corporate jargon. Participants connect, share alternate perspectives, promote understanding, and spark behaviors that embody organizational culture to improve patient care.
The typical steps:
- identify the complex challenge each team will work on (the challenge may be the same for the group as a whole or each table may choose their own)
- develop shared reality that includes agreement and disagreement
- understand fears and worries
- develop shared vision
- identify multiple options for how you might proceed
- choose a way forward
- identify the enabling management and leadership frameworks and tactics needed to drive results
Sample Challenges from Recent Retreats:
- How can we most work together most effectively as an executive team?
- How can we increase the well-being and engagement of staff?
- How can we attract and retain top talent?
- How can we improve our all-staff survey results?
- How can we create and drive effective strategy for next year?
- How can we create and empower leadership dyads and triads?
- How can we improve our quality scores?
- How can we best align two distinct physician cultures?
- How can we establish an efficient process for the morning discharge of hospitalized patients?
- How can we increase procedural volume at our ambulatory surgical center?
- How can we create an integrated multispecialty center of excellence for spine care?
