Improving Communication: The Puke or Shoot Continuum
No one likes to be sick and let’s face it… puking is the worst. Second to that I guess, is…
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Improving Communication: A Word (or two) about Coaching
What is a coach? Someone who supports you, someone who challenges you, someone who helps you improve? This picture was…
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Improving Communication: Key Strategies
In the last blog I discussed the importance of paying attention to the basics and how that impacts physician communication…
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Improving Communication: Pay Attention to the Basics
What do you notice about this bowl of M&Ms? It’s colorful, yes. Lots of primary colors, yes. Someone’s been eating…
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Launching a Bold Strategy?
We have all been there – bold strategic aspirations, full day planning events, strategy departments churning out brilliant visuals and…
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It Takes a Village: Closing Thoughts
In the previous post, we talked about how you can in a sense “crowdsource” the development of your enterprise data…
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Your Enterprise Data Warehouse: Crowdsource your EDW development
Let’s take the “village” concept from the previous blog post a step further—and here’s where it gets more controversial: to…
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Your Enterprise Data Warehouse: Why it will take a Village to Build an EDW
In the previous blog posts we’ve talked about how yes, you can do more with less by employing the proper…
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Your Enterprise Data Warehouse: Using the Right Tools for the Job (Part 2)
With the increasing demand for analytics at the same time as increasing pressure to cut costs, we have to figure out…
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Your Enterprise Data Warehouse: Using the Right Tools for the Job
In the first blog post of this series, I discussed the increasing pressures on analytics, reporting and data warehousing departments…
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Your Enterprise Data Warehouse: It Takes a Village
There’s no way around it: the good people in analytics, reporting, and data warehousing departments in the healthcare provider industry…
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Service Culture Training: Sustaining & Supporting
Organizations often believe that merely putting their staff through a training program about service will suffice for “fixing” their service…
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Service Culture Training: Implementing the Plan
Instilling or re-shaping the service culture of your organization doesn’t happen overnight. In this series we are sharing some tips…
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Service Culture Training: Developing the Plan
Shaping the service culture in a healthcare organization is not for the faint-of-heart. In this series we are providing practical…
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Service Culture Training: How to Get Started
One of the comments we received on our post that described the “Defy the Asymptote” concept was about patient satisfaction percentile…
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How Defiance Can Help Your Hospital Accelerate Change
At DTA, we’re big on defiance. Well, not all defiance, but good defiance with a positive outcome. By definition, defiance…
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What does DTA stand for?
I remember it well: it was a brisk fall morning in 2007 and we had just learned of yet another…
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