Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Leader Alignment – up, down, and sideways
How well aligned are you with:
· Your peers,
· Your direct reports, and
· Your boss?
top of page
BLOG
Join other professionals working to prevent physician burnout.
Sign up for regular updates today.
Search
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.
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.
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.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Dec 5, 2023
Breakdown of Community in the Healthcare Setting
Breakdown of Community is driving healthcare burnout in ways you may not expect.
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 14, 2023
Breakdown of Community: A Driver of Physician Burnout
Let's discuss breakdown of community, an important driver of physician burnout, and why it's increasingly common in health care today.
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.
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...
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
May 16, 2023
3 Ways To Improve Healthcare Practice Efficiency To Reduce Clinician Burnout
Dr. Paul DeChant describes three ways to improve practice efficiency: daily huddles, workflow redesign, and optimizing technology.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
May 10, 2023
Efficiency of Practice
Efficiency of Practice in healthcare is the area that can make the biggest difference in physician's lives, by reducing work overload.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Apr 24, 2023
The Role of Personal Resilience in Beating Burnout
Personal resilience support is absolutely vital and insufficient to reduce healthcare burnout. Learn about effective ways to get started.
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.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Apr 27, 2020
Leadership Team Huddles
When things change daily, a daily huddle is vitally important to keep up with the pace of change.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Apr 12, 2020
Executive Huddles - A Key Learning From COVID-19 Crisis Management
A daily huddle of the C-level executive team will ensure rapid problem solving.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Dec 16, 2019
Breakdown of Community - Burnout Driver #4
Today’s post takes a deep dive into Maslach and Leiter’s fourth driver of physician burnout – Breakdown of Community.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Dec 11, 2019
Fixing Physician Frustrations at the Front Lines
The model creates a process and structure by which front-line workers (both clinical and non-clinical) identify current and potential proble
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Dec 1, 2019
Lack of Control
Physicians strongly value autonomy, and we should. Much of what we do requires making decisions and taking independent actions.
bottom of page