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What Happens to Organizations WITHOUT Effective Engagement Programs?

The verdict is in. The research is clear. Individuals who are actively engaged in their work have higher levels of personal wellbeing and productivity, plus lower levels of burnout.

Physician leaders looking to engage their team should avoid these mistakes and ask the important questions.

In an ideal world, leaders are able to work with their organization to build an effective engagement program. But alas, we are often not in the utopia we dream of.

So we ask: what happens when organizations refuse to create effective engagement programs and invest in their employees?

Lack of Connectivity

To recap briefly (if you’ve been following the whole time feel free to skip this opening paragraph), we’ve been spending this fall semester bravely wading through the many, varied and interwoven problems in the healthcare industry. More specifically, we’ve been looking at issues related to physician overwhelm and burnout as well as leadership’s responsibilities to work toward a solution.

Lack of Training: When's the Time?

It feels strange, because a physician is arguably one of the “most-trained” positions in the modern world. Physicians spend longer in higher education that any other profession. Yet the career transition from physician to physician leader involves minimal and inadequate preparation in the best of situations.

Why aren’t our physician leaders as well prepared for their role as physicians are? And what can we do to change this for the future?

One of the reasons physician leaders aren’t properly trained is they aren’t given time.

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