Improve Healthcare Collaboration with A Checklist

I never imagined suboptimal healthcare collaboration would happen to me. Twenty-four hours before a group presentation, we were arguing over the format of our presentation rather than putting the final touches on it. From then on, I resolved to discuss process issues up front and teach healthcare colleagues to do the same. We use checklists all the time when doing procedures. Why not use them at the start of meetings or other group projects?

The Power of Not Knowing: Understanding Your Adversary

Most of the time, your eagerness to get your point across guarantees that you won't. It seems the harder you push to be heard, the harder they push back.

Building a Winning Workplace

A Winning Workplace requires more than aesthetically pleasing architecture, lovely interior design and beautiful landscaping. All of these are definite pluses, however. Image is everything, almost. A Winning Workplace requires an attitude of excellence from leaders for physical, emotional and fiscal responsibility to its people and outstanding care for its patients (services or products).

Forget Donald Trump! It's Personal And It's Still Business!

Relationships and not just profits are a vital ingredient in every venture. Every manager or leader of a group should endeavor to build positive relationships among his or her team if they are to get optimal performance from them. People need to feel that you care about them enough to give them another chance when things occasionally go awry.

Become a Credible Communicator: Make Honesty Your Policy!

To command attention when you speak, you have to be credible. Credibility in the workplace means believability. Are you striving to be a credible communicator, here is the right way to speak and write.

How To Conduct Meetings Like A Top Performer

Everyone participates in meetings or is the host of a meeting. Many are productive and others are a complete waste of time. We have developed a list of techniques for planning and holding effective meetings that will turn you into a top performer in your profession and organization.

Conflict Resolution in the Workplace and Management Tips

Good managers and supervisors are very essential to an organization. In today's business and legal environment, it is very important to understand on how to handle employees effectively.

Employee Partnership Through Delegation

If you want to develop high performance employee partnerships, you must do so by example. One way to lead by example is to exhibit self-confidence. You can show that you are a confident leader. A leader has personal power. A boss gets his or her power from the title on a business card. Show your confidence by delegating tasks and responsibilities to your team members. Delegate in a way that builds alliance relationships so team members become interdependent with one another rather than dependent or independent.

Effective Communication: Planning Buy-in

Is your organization driven by a clear vision and strategy that is understood and supported by every person at every level?

What Is an Employee Assistance Program

A concise article explaining the purpose of an employee assistance program.

Instant Messages Don't Just Disappear

Instant messages don't disappear when you close the Sametime (or other) instant messaging window, not in the corporate world anyway. Just about all corporations back up their network systems' activity daily. What corporations do with instant messaging varies widely.

Conflict at Work May Be the Snake Under the Rug (Part 1 of 2)

Failure to address important conflicts at work doesn't make the conflict go away and can often intensify it or breed distrust in the work environment. This article uses a parable by Peter Senge to consider what happens when conflict goes underground.

Relevance of Medical Metaphor in Corporate Turnaround

Medical metaphors are applicable in corporate as people can comprehend their medical and health conditions much better than corporate matters.

More Tips For Fitting In At The Workplace

A lot of times, the amount of satisfaction that one receives in a job is in direct relation to the way they interact with their co-workers. There are McDonald's employees that are happier then rocket scientists due to their attitude and demeanor while in the workplace. To that end, we've assembled some more tips on how to be happy on the job.