Over the last three years, the healthcare community has found innovative and resourceful ways to not only combat challenges, but also thrive and grow. That is why the theme for this year’s Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit was Learn, Share, Connect: Accelerating change during dynamic times. Our presenters shared about developing their teams, building a resilient […]
This is the second blog in a four-part series focused on sustaining lean transformation in healthcare organizations. To read the previous blog post in the series, please follow the link below: Blog #1 Establishing and Sustaining a Lean Management System American educator and author, Reed B. Markham, once said, “If you are standing still, you […]
LOGAN, Utah, April 17, 2023 — The Shingo Institute, a program of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, has awarded John Toussaint, MD and Kim Barnas the Shingo Publication Award for their book, Becoming the Change: Leadership Behavior Strategies for Continuous Improvement in Healthcare.
https://createvalue.org/blog/shingo-publication-award-given-becoming-change/
This teaching article about Leader as Teacher and Coach is from Margie Hagene. Margie’s teaching and coaching focus is organizational effectiveness and continuous improvement/lean thinking. For over thirty years, she has helped executives and senior leaders recognize their changing roles and responsibilities in complex systems. By providing frameworks for thinking and learning, and evidence-based structures […]
It has been said that there is one constant in life…that constant is change. This is not just true in our personal and professional lives, but in the organizations where we work. So here is the big question…how do we manage it? How do we prepare for it? How do we thrive in it? How […]
Recently, I’ve been working with a non-profit board that is trying to reshape the organization’s mission. While they have a lot of hopes for the future and what the organization will accomplish, they find themselves spinning in conversation with no action forward. Without a plan, these will remain conversations of hopes and dreams. What are […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/moving-beyond-hopes-dreams-plans-realities/
In sports, it seems that winning is everything. Players who don’t perform are cut. Teams who don’t win championships lose players to a perceived better opportunity with another team. As one of the winningest basketball coaches in history, John Wooden might be an exception to that philosophy. He coached his players to prepare to the […]
Colby Parrott, Director of Organizational Effectiveness from The Vancouver Clinic, one of our Catalysis Healthcare Value Network members, shares strategies below of how to effectively develop people and support employee retention. Imagine if you only receive feedback on your work one time a year or if a one-to-one with your manager rarely happens. If these […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/developing-people-everyday-conversation/
Learn, share, connect is a phrase that we at Catalysis commonly use to describe our work with the healthcare community. And “catalysis” is a process that accelerates change, which is our mission. So it seemed fitting that we expand upon these ideas for the theme of our upcoming Summit. Learn, share, connect: Accelerating change during […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/learn-share-connect-accelerating-change-dynamic-times/
Are you on the path of organizational excellence, searching for what’s possible, where to go next, and ways to share your experiences and work with others in the lean community? We learn best when we can see something firsthand, interact with others, and combine our shared knowledge. The first step is finding a way to […]
