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Leader Alignment – up, down, and sideways

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Aug 20

Leader Alignment – up, down, and sideways

How well aligned are you with: · Your peers, · Your direct reports, and · Your boss?

Management in the Information Age: Overcoming Workforce Challenges

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Mar 27

Management in the Information Age: Overcoming Workforce Challenges

Overcoming modern workforce challenges requires leadership approaches moving from prior Industrial Age to Information Age management.

Do Patients or Care Givers Come First? It Depends…

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Mar 6

Do Patients or Care Givers Come First? It Depends…

“Who comes first?” For care givers, it’s their patients. For administrators, it’s their front-line care givers.

Why do Healthcare Systems Tolerate Toxic Workplaces?

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Jan 18

Why do Healthcare Systems Tolerate Toxic Workplaces?

A look at why there is so little action by healthcare leaders to address toxic workplaces...

Absence of Fairness – An Overlooked Driver of Healthcare Burnout

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Dec 11, 2023

Absence of Fairness – An Overlooked Driver of Healthcare Burnout

Absence of fairness is an overlooked yet significant driver of burnout. It takes place at both a micro and macro level.

Eliminate Physician Frustrations to Prevent Physician Burnout

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Nov 28, 2023

Eliminate Physician Frustrations to Prevent Physician Burnout

Do you experience clinical workflow barriers and frustrations? They can be the first steps to burnout.

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Nov 1, 2023

Why Do We Call it “Admin Time”?

Let’s call "Admin Time" what it really is, "Clerical Time" doctors spend doing work someone else should be doing.

Improve Practice Efficiency to Reduce Healthcare Burnout

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Sep 13, 2023

Improve Practice Efficiency to Reduce Healthcare Burnout

Here's how healthcare executives can reduce clinician burnout by innovating the work environment/work flow and improving practice efficiency

Shadowing Physicians: Going Where the Work Is Done

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Aug 14, 2023

Shadowing Physicians: Going Where the Work Is Done

Healthcare leaders need to go where the actual work is being done in order to make better informed decisions. Here's why...

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Jul 10, 2023

Funding Clinician Wellbeing Work

Here are three approaches for funding clinician wellbeing work to improve the workplace and reduce healthcare-related burnout.

Getting Aligned in the Healthcare Setting - Up, Down, and Sideways

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Jun 12, 2023

Getting Aligned in the Healthcare Setting - Up, Down, and Sideways

Are you aligned with your healthcare team and organization? Here's why it's so important to the culture of your leadership team...

Introducing Organizational Wellbeing Solutions - Designed for Healthcare Leaders

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

May 26, 2023

Introducing Organizational Wellbeing Solutions - Designed for Healthcare Leaders

Introducing a new consulting group - Organizational Wellbeing Solutions - helping healthcare leaders reduce their burnout and their teams'.

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Apr 10, 2023

Reducing Burnout - An Overview

Learn about the three areas of focus that are important in order to reduce burnout and achieve professional fulfillment.

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Mar 27, 2023

Understanding Burnout

Dr. Paul DeChant explains how healthcare and clinician burnout is the manifestation, in an individual, of dysfunction in the workplace.

How to Beat Burnout While Building the Bottom Line

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Mar 16, 2023

How to Beat Burnout While Building the Bottom Line

Dr. Paul DeChant, burnout expert, shows how to beat burnout through fixing workplace dysfunction, not simply building personal resilience

Fix the Clinical Workplace, Not the Clinicians

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Sep 4, 2022

Fix the Clinical Workplace, Not the Clinicians

Burnout is the manifestation in an individual of significant dysfunction in that person’s workplace. Clinical workplaces today are rife...

Dr. Michael Privitera: Human Factors Ergonomics Science, Leadership, and Burnout

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Dec 23, 2021

Dr. Michael Privitera: Human Factors Ergonomics Science, Leadership, and Burnout

Dr. Michael Privitera shares how Human Factors Engineering deepens our understanding of clinician burnout and effective primary prevention.

Dr. Robert Pearl – Fixing Healthcare for the Future

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Dec 15, 2021

Dr. Robert Pearl – Fixing Healthcare for the Future

Looking forward to Dr. Robert Pearl's kick-off keynote at the Healthcare Burnout Symposium in San Francisco this January 24th.

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Jan 22, 2021

The AMGA and the Pandemic

I’m pleased to share my discussion with Jerry Penso, MD, MBA, the President and CEO of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA).

Healthcare Boards Supporting Clinician Burnout

Paul DeChant MD, MBA

Jan 12, 2021

Healthcare Boards Supporting Clinician Burnout

What is the role of the board of directors in addressing clinician burnout? This is the focus of my discussion with Dr. Byron Scott.

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