Strategies for Accelerating and Sustaining Change in Healthcare Organizations

Session
Leadership and Management

Author
Junell Scheeres
President
LS2 Performance Solutions LLC

Description
This one day workshop provides participants with a hands-on learning experience to introduce tools and techniques that help health care organizations accelerate and sustain change. Participants will actively engage in scenarios and practice linking strategy, scorecards and improvement activities in order to become a trusted advisor and effective change facilitator.

Abstract
Strategies for Accelerating and Sustaining Change in Healthcare Organizations This one day workshop provides participants with a hands-on learning experience to introduce tools and techniques that help health care organizations accelerate and sustain change. Participants will actively engage in scenarios and practice linking strategy, scorecards and improvement activities in order to become a trusted advisor and effective change facilitator. Specific activities to be covered include:

The Change Effect:
Leading Change: What you need to know
Leading Change in Healthcare: What's different and why
Assessing Readiness for Change:
An organizational assessment tool
Developing the Change Strategy:
Identify and prioritize performance goals
Select the right projects
Apply the right tool/technique/intervention
Change Management:
Prepare the organization for change
Equip the change team
Project Execution:
Guiding the project team
How to keep projects on track
What to do when things go wrong
Recording Results
Managing the Transition:
Roles and accountabilities
Assessing progress
Celebrating results