Physician leadership, patient flow and the BID Team Huddle

Posted by Dike Drummond MD

Physician leadership, patient flow and the critical importance of the 3 minute team huddle

How often do you find yourself putting out fires and running late in your office day? If it is more than just an occasional inconvenience … you need this simple and powerful patient flow and physician leadership tool.

Tags: Dike Drummond MD, Physician Coaching, Physician Leadership

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Physician Leadership: Monthly Staff Meeting Power Up and Team Venting Process

Posted by Dike Drummond MD

Physician Leadership: Power Up your Monthly Staff Meeting

How can you get your team to carry some of the load, smooth out your patient flow and make sure your systems are constantly improving?

The answer to those questions is in this week’s physician leadership video lesson.

This video focuses on how you power up your monthly staff meeting by asking 3 simple but powerful questions. You stop “giving orders” and focus on asking questions and watch your team step up and do some of the heavy lifting from now on.

Watch until the end where I show you a 2 Minute Team Venting process for those times when the group simply must let off some steam before they can focus.

NOTE:

This is just one of 48 video, audio and document resources in these Smart Phone APPs to Prevent Physician Burnout

Tags: Physician Coaching, Physician Leadership

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5 Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: Captain James T. Kirk

Posted by Dike Drummond MD

5 Leadership Lessons from Captain James T. Kirk … is the title of a Forbes Blog Post written by Alex Knapp. Now I have always loved the old school Star Trek episodes with Kirk at the helm – except for the “Trouble with Tribbles” show. And James T. Kirk certainly had a distinctive leadership style. Here are the 5 lessons Mr. Knapp pulls out of his Kirk recollections.

1) Never Stop Learning

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Doctors and Nurses: Doctors need to Order Less, Listen More

Posted by Dike Drummond MD

Doctors and Nurses form a TEAM in healthcare

Often that team is quite dysfunctional because of a basic cross wiring in the command and control of the team.

A doctors and nurses post on KevinMD.com last week hit a nerve. It was titled “Listening to Nurses is a Key to Being a Good Doctor”.

I couldn’t agree more.

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