There are two types of team-based healthcare clients that I have:
- Those that see the importance of continually improving their team’s collaboration and want to continually improve.
- Those that have low staff morale, high turnover and they want to get their team “back on track”.
Regardless of the situation, I have one piece of advice for everyone.
DON’T DO NOTHING.
If you don’t want to hire someone to help you, then do it yourself.
Not investing in your team and helping them to communicate better together will only cost you in the long run.
Especially when you can see what a high-functioning team looks like. I’m fortunate, as my business allows me to gain a unique opportunity to see the strengths of many different medical clinics and healthcare organizations.
Rather than focus on the negative aspects of not investing in regular team workshops and retreats, I thought I’d focus on the benefits of doing so.
Here are 5 ways that your medical clinic team will benefit from a Team Synergy Workshop.
1. Increased productivity. Respectful candor. Kind transparency. Knowing (and feeling) that feedback is coming from a “good place”. The Team Synergy workshops are specifically designed to open channels of communication between every member of the team to foster the streamlining of systems to enhance productivity in your clinic.
2. Stimulates innovation & creativity. When people feel comfortable to share ideas for improvement with one another, amazing things happen. Especially when embracing the main tenet of improvisation… “Yes, And”. When someone is comfortable sharing an idea with another person, and the other person not only agrees with it (by saying “YES”) but also by adding to it with an idea of their own (“Yes, AND…) – you’re entering the world of innovation. This is a powerful mindset to embrace, which results in processes constantly being iterated to improve processes… which ultimately benefits your patients.
3. Enhanced continuity of care within the clinic. As good as every system is, not every situation fits neatly in it. If there isn’t open communication between every member of the staff, errors can be made. We’ve heard of continuity of care between Health Care Professional clinics, but this can also happen within a clinic.
4. It instantly increases staff morale. A workshop participant once observed: “We’re too busy in our clinic to lift our heads and see what’s happening around us.”. A Team Synergy workshop has activities that are specifically designed to lighten the mood, get to know one another, build internal and external self-awareness. The one overwhelming benefit that is often overlooked with a Team Synergy workshop? Everyone is simply out of the clinic for a breather!
5. It’s fun! Having a workshop facilitator that acts as a catalyst to bring things together is crucial. Equally important is injecting humour. The concepts and frameworks introduced at the workshop is what will improve office efficiencies and productivity. The fun is what they will remember.
The benefits of doing a Team Synergy workshop with your medical clinic are numerous.
AND there are different types of workshops for enhancing your medical clinic or healthcare team, depending on what you would like to accomplish.
If you would like to learn more, here are 3 ways that Human Scaffold can help:
- Want to consider a TEAM SYNERGY WORKSHOP? No problem, let’s talk about some options: http://humanscaffold.com/contact
- Want to bootstrap it and do it yourself? No problem… and feel free to reach out and I can share some ideas with you.
- You can also check out other ideas to help enhance your medical clinic in my blog: http://humanscaffold.com/blo3
