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At Baptist Leadership Group, we maximize on-line technology to make participation in our educational programs faster, more efficient and less expensive for you.
 
All you need to participate is a phone line and a web browser.  A live question and answer capability allows you to type in questions throughout the program, and our presenters will answer them for the entire audience. And the best part – you can have as many people from your organization participate through the same phone line and web browser as you want. Each conference lasts approximately one-two hours and is led by a Baptist Leadership Group expert.

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Upcoming and Recorded Webinars
 
 
 
Goals, Alignment and Accountability: How to set the stage to become a high-performing, patient-centered healthcare organization
 
Presenters:   Scott Ginnetti,  Baptist Health Care
 
Summary: Does your performance management system award leaders with a good evaluation, even if they didn’t meet their goals? To overcome this common challenge in healthcare, we must align leader goals with organizational goals to drive accountability, from senior leaders to front-line staff. Goals must be clear and focused on outcomes using a consistent approach with pre-determined consequences -- positive or negative. Hardwiring accountability impacts HCAHPS performance, patient satisfaction, employee engagement, quality outcomes, and profitability – and creates world-class, high performing, patient-centered organizations.
 
Scott Ginnetti, Director of People Development at Baptist Health Care, will present the nuts and bolts of managing performance and creating accountability at your organization – through the use of best practices and techniques like goal setting, 90 day-plans, and feedback sessions.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 


 

 
Building a Winning Team in Healthcare Part II -
Coaching Solid Performers and Addressing Underachievers to Create a High Performing Organization
 
Presenters:  Beverly Begovich RN, BSN, MBA,  Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary: At Baptist Leadership Group, we recently conducted a survey of 32,000 healthcare employees, leaders and physicians about their culture. The biggest hurdle they cited was how to effectively manage poor performers. Many leaders struggle with this, and industry data shows it is one of the top challenges we face in healthcare.
 
Please join Baptist Leadership Group's Practice Leader, Beverly Begovich, for Part Two of our free webinar series on Building a Winning Team. You will learn the art and science of developing your solid performers and disciplining underachievers. We will share how to assess and coach employees on their performance to achieve the expected department outcomes or goals. You will learn how to have the Vital Conversations that enable you to: coach with an attitude of helping; pay attention to personal impact; recognize people's desire to do the right thing; focus on behaviors the employee can change; determine employees' "coaching communication style;" learn to ask great questions and listen to the answers; avoid telling "how to"—let them tell you; and that new habits take time … but not that much. These tools and techniques will help you build your own Winning Team on your journey to becoming a patient-centered, high performing organization.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 


 

 
Building a Winning Team: How to Select,
Retain and Manage the Performance of your Workforce
 
Presenters:  Beverly Begovich RN, BSN, MBA,  Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary: Improving your healthcare organization's overall performance means understanding the art and science of attaining, retaining, and developing your employees. Many leaders struggle with this, and industry data shows it is one of the top challenges facing healthcare.
 
Baptist Leadership Group Practice Leader Beverly Begovich presents Part One of a two-part free webinar series. She will share the importance of identifying specific competencies for the selection of high achievers; developing Standards of Performance and holding your leaders and staff accountable to them - every patient, every time. You will also learn the tools and tactics to select, assess and coach employees on their performance to achieve the expected outcomes or goals -- including how to retain high achievers, coach the solid performer and manage poor performers.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 


 

 
 
Presenter:  Katie Owens, Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary: HCAHPS is more than just a patient experience survey. It is a call to action for healthcare leaders and staff to place patients at the center of our work – every patient, every time.
 
Join us for Why HCAHPS Matters: A call-to-action to achieve patient-centered excellence. Our presenter, Katie Owens, will provide you an overview of HCAHPS, the survey, and its implications for value based purchasing. She will share practical, actionable tools, techniques and resources that will immediately impact the patient experience and your scores.
 
The content is based on our years of “road testing” processes, tools, and tactics at our “living laboratory” - our parent health system, Baptist Health Care in Pensacola, Florida. It is also informed by our work coaching healthcare organizations across the country. Our clients on average perform nearly 25 percentile points above the national average on HCAHPS surveys. This is evidence that our tools and techniques, when executed consistently and with good form, will lead to improved patient perceptions’ of their health care experience, and ultimately drive HCAHPS scores and your bottom line.
 
For your $75.00 registration fee, you receive free access to the presentation, two special white papers and more related content; a copy of our latest book The HCAHPS Imperative for Creating a Patient-Centered Experience; and continuing education credit.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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How to Create Positive and Meaningful Communication with Every Patient, Every Family, Every Time
 
Presenter:  Beverly Begovich RN, BSN, MBA, Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary: Providing consistent patient-centered communication from pre-registration to discharge creates positive patient experiences. And for hospitals all over the country, HCAHPS scores are emphasizing positive and negative perceptions of quality of care. They play an important role in how patients and their physicians decide where to go for treatment. Patient-centered care is more important than ever before as a driver of improved outcomes and the bottom line. Words that Work and RELATE is our proven communication model to improve the patient experience.
 
Please join Beverly Begovich for a free webinar on Thursday, June 23 from 11am to 12pm Eastern where she will share best practices, tools and tactics for two-way communication with patients and their families. You will learn how to increase positive perception of staff and your hospital, drive HCAHPS scores, and improve the patient experience and clinical outcomes by applying Words that Work and RELATE. Access to the webinar slides and additional related resources will be provided to participants after the webinar.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 


 

 
How to Take Your People to the Next Level: Tools and Tactics to Enhance Performance Management
 
Presenters:   Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary: If you want to achieve world-class levels of performance, you must hold leaders accountable for achieving results and ultimately aligning the actions and behaviors of their staff to support achieving the desired outcome. Yet, often times we hear that accountability is the biggest obstacle for organizations to overcome.
 
The essential first step for long term success is the introduction and hardwiring of a system of accountability to achieve desired outcomes. The objective behind creating a system of accountability is to create clarity for everyone, with a focus on outcomes, through a consistent approach with pre-determined consequences -- positive or negative for achievement of patient-centered excellence.
 
We will share best practices, tools and tactics for managing performance and creating accountability at your organization - like goal setting, 90 day-plans, and feedback sessions. You will learn how the Leader Performance System manages the process of leader accountability and helps drive and sustain organizational results. Access to the webinar slides and additional related resources will be provided to participants after the webinar..
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
Vital Conversations: The Art and Science of Performance Management
 
Presenters:  Beverly Begovich RN, BSN, MBA, Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary: Improving your healthcare organization’s overall performance means understanding how to coach your high achievers and manage your poor performers. Many leaders struggle with this, and industry data shows it is one of the top challenges facing healthcare leaders.

Vital Conversations is our performance management tool that teaches healthcare leaders the art and science of retaining, developing and disciplining staff members. Leaders learn how to assess and coach employees on their performance to achieve the expected department outcomes or goals.

You will learn the tools and tactics to hardwire the three critical skills of performance management: clearly communicating expectations to employees, defining specific behaviors that drive outcomes, and providing feedback to the employee on performance related to the expectations. Access to the webinar slides and additional related resources will be provided to participants after the webinar
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Getting the Right People on the Bus: How to Effectively Hire Employees that Create and Sustain a High Performing Healthcare Organization
 
Presenters:  Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary: Hiring the right people is paramount to creating a high performing healthcare organization. Your hiring process needs to move beyond just finding technical skills to focusing on patient-centered skills and behaviors. Using proven and practical assessments and interviewing techniques will create a hiring process that will maximize outcomes such as turnover and HCAHPS in your organization.
 
We will share how to hire employees using leading edge strategies and tools that go beyond the peer interview and other traditional HR approaches. You will learn best practices that help you bring the right people to your organization to improve and sustain a culture of patient-centered excellence, every patient, every time .
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
Harnessing the Power of Patient Flow Data:
How to Drive Patient-Centered Excellence, Operational Performance and Profitability
 
Presenter:  Pat Turbiville, Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary: The entire patient experience begins at the moment of arrival at your healthcare facility and is determined by every touch point during each hospital visit. Long wait times, lack of communication, disproportionate staffing, and underperforming employees have a direct influence on quality outcomes and your patients' perceptions of care. And with the arrival of HCAHPS and value-based purchasing, high patient satisfaction is a must to compete for limited dollars that will be available.
 
You will learn how to use patient flow data to create a patient-centered experience, resulting in increased satisfaction and loyalty, empowered employees at every level of your organization, and increased profitability.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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What is your organization's diagnosis?
How to treat for consistency and accountability - every patient, every time
 
Presenter:  Katie Owens, Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary:Does your organization need a diagnosis for patient-centered excellence?  Have you identified your "treatment plan," experienced some improvement, then fallen back to your previous state?  Do you think you're doing the right thing, but your results don't show it?  Do you struggle because you have "too much on your plate" for consistent focus? 
 
Our research shows that 50% of hospitals are failing when it comes to reaching and sustaining performance outcomes.  Why? Because many healthcare leaders lose focus on being consistent and accountable for the evidence-based solutions that drive patient-centered excellence - like Rounding, patient-centered communication, discharge phone calls, leader development and goal alignment.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Purposeful Rounding and HCAHPS
 
Presenter:  April Fairey, Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary:It's the simple things, done consistently and well, that can be the biggest driver of improved HCAHPS scores, and overall quality and profitability. Purposeful Rounding has a direct impact on the patient experience, your staff, and the entire continuum of care. And with the increasing importance HCAHPS in this new healthcare industry landscape, enhancing the total patient experience to drive patient perceptions has never been more important.
 
Rounding is an organized process of systematic visibility done with a purpose. Rounding establishes relationships so needs can be communicated. It creates an openness based on trust and fosters the sharing of valuable information that places the patient experience at the center of your work. It is a strategic approach to creating a culture of service excellence that specifically aligns with and drives top box scores.
 
You will learn how Purposeful Rounding fully engages your employees and retains high performers through consistent, transparent and open communication, and empowerment at every level of your organization. When consistently hardwired and deployed, it has an immediate impact on the patient-centeredness, and can help you create and sustain HCACHPS performance results for the long-term..
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The HCAHPS Imperative for Creating a Patient-Centered Experience
 
Presenter:  Katie Owens, Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary:HCAHPS is more than just a patient experience survey, it is a call to action for healthcare leaders and staff to achieve patient-centered excellence - placing patients at the center our work every patient, every time. It mandates accountability for the hospital experience based on patient's perceptions. Yet we are often asked by healthcare leaders, "How can we achieve sustainable improvement in our scores? What strategies do we use to create consistency in our processes and outcomes, from the Board room to the bedside?"
 
Improving the patient experience is the right thing to do, and has been proven time-and-again to drive quality outcomes and profitability. With the arrival of value-based purchasing, ignoring patient-centeredness and the implications of HCAHPS will result in devastating financial consequences for healthcare organizations.
 
You will learn the practical, actionable tools to immediately impact the patient experience and drive results, because we know that what we teach works. Our healthcare partners across the country average 25 percentile points above the national average.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Engaging the Hearts and Minds of Your Employees with Effective Communication
 
Presenters:  Eli Pagonis, Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary: Consistent, open, transparent communication is vital to a healthy culture, and your success as a healthcare o rganization. The ability to fully engage your employees and retain high performers using effective communication builds trust and commitment, reduces turnover, establishes ownership through information sharing, and demonstrates openness.
 
And with the arrival of value-based purchasing, it's not just about employee communication. Healthcare professionals must also evolve how we communicate with patients to prevent adverse events, and deliver a patient-centered experience. This will have a direct impact on your organization's scores and your ability to compete for and secure limited value-based purchasing dollars.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Improve Satisfaction and Loyalty by Creating a Patient-Centered Experience
 
Presenter: Pat Turbiville, Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary: The entire patient experience begins at the moment of arrival at your healthcare facility and is determined by every touch point during each hospital visit.  Long wait times, lack of communication, disproportionate staffing, and underperforming employees have a direct influence on quality outcomes and patients’ perceptions of care. And with the arrival of HCAHPS and value-based purchasing, high patient satisfaction is a must to compete for limited dollars that will be available.
 
You will learn what all hospital leaders need to know to create an approach and process that drives a patient-centered experience, resulting in increased satisfaction and loyalty, and empowered employees at every level of your organization. .
 
 
 
 
 
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Purposeful Rounding - Tools and Tactics that Engage Employees and Drive Patient-Centered Excellence
 
Presenter: April Fairey, Baptist Leadership Group
 
It's the simple things, done consistently and well, that can be the biggest driver of improved quality and revenue. Purposeful rounding has a direct impact on patients and staff, and the entire continuum of care. It is an organized process of systematic visibility done with a purpose. Rounding establishes relationships so needs can be communicated. It creates an openness based on trust and fosters the sharing of valuable information. Barriers come down when rounding is practiced consistently, and visibility comes to be expected and anticipated.

You will learn what all hospital leaders need to know to fully engage your employees and retain high performers through consistent, transparent and open communication, and empowerment at every level of your organization with Purposeful Rounding.
 
 
 
 
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Creating Effective Employee Communication at Your Healthcare Organization
 
Presenter: Eli Pagonis, Baptist Leadership Group, Director of Service Excellence
 
Summary: Effective communication is vital to a healthy culture, and your success as a healthcare organization.  The ability to fully engage your employees and retain high performers using consistent, transparent and open communication builds trust and commitment, reduces turnover, establishes ownership through information sharing, and demonstrates transparency and openness.
 
You will learn what all hospital leaders need to know to improve your current channels of communication, as well as new communication techniques that drive measurable results in employee engagement, patient satisfaction, and the bottom line.
 
 
 
 
 
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The HCAHPS Imperative
 
Presenter: Katie Owens, Baptist Leadership Group, Director of Performance Improvement and Research
 
Summary: HCAHPS impacts nearly every hospital in the country.  And with the arrival of value-based purchasing, the decisions that senior teams make now to deliver a patient-centered experience will have a direct impact on your organization's scores, and your ability to compete for and secure limited value-based purchasing dollars.  Bottom line profitability is at stake unless CEO's and Senior teams effectively align their organization to achieve top box results.
 
You will learn what all hospital leaders need to know to impact performance by leveraging your people and processes to improve patient perceptions of care, drive your HCAHPS scores to the highest levels, and maximize profitability.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Measuring and Assessing for Patient-Centered Excellence

Presenters:  Baptist Leadership Group


Summary: Our research shows that there is a cause-and-effect relationship between employee engagement and patient outcomes. In this challenging economy, healthcare leaders must decide the best way to spend limited funds to engage, train, develop and retain their employees. This, in turn, impacts patient satisfaction, quality, safety and ultimately, the bottom line. By linking existing employee data to critical patient outcomes, the actual impact and expected ROI for employee initiatives can be calculated. This removes “guesswork” from budget allocations, and ensures that dollars are invested only where they will drive results.

In this webinar, you will learn:
  • How to link employee data to measurable patient outcomes
  • How to identify the key areas of employee engagement that drive results
  • How to calculate the actual impact of employee initiatives
  • Practical tips for determining which programs to keep
  • How to engage key leaders and stakeholders in the process
 
 
 
 
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Patient-centered excellence. What does it take?
 
Presenter: Katie Owens, Baptist Leadership Group, Performance Improvement and Research Leader
 
Summary: As healthcare leaders you are using at least some of the common tools and best practices that improve the patient experience. They are not new: Rounding, Words that Work, Reward and Recognition, Discharge Phone Calls, Goal Alignment and Management, to name a few. How well are they working for you, and are you achieving your goals?
 
Our research over the past decade shows that 50% of hospitals are failing when it comes to reaching and sustaining patient-centered excellence.
Do you have the frustration of embracing a new initiative, experiencing improvement, then falling back to previous state? Do you think you’re doing the right thing, even though results are inconsistent? Would you like to understand why, so you can learn how to fix it?
 
Please join Katie Owens, of the Baptist Leadership Group, for a complimentary senior leader webinar on Friday, April 30 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EST. You will learn how to identify the gaps in consistency and execution in order to overcome obstacles, and achieve your goals in satisfaction, engagement, quality outcomes, and profitability
Yet our research throughout the past decade shows that 50% of hospitals are failing when it comes to reaching and sustaining patient-centered excellence.
 
Do you have the frustration of embracing a new initiative, experiencing improvement, then falling back to previous state? Do you think you’re doing the right thing, even though results are inconsistent? Would you like to understand why, so you can learn how to fix it?
 
Please join Katie Owens of the Baptist Leadership Group, for a complimentary senior leader webinar on Friday,April 30 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EST. You will learn how uncover the gaps in consistency and execution, in order to overcome obstacles, and achieve and sustain high scores in satisfaction, engagement, quality outcomes, and increased profitability.
 
 
 
 
 

 


 

 
How To Maximize Your Investment in Patient Satisfaction Data
 
Presenter: Katie Owens, Baptist Leadership Group, Performance Improvement and Research Leader
 
Summary: Your healthcare organization, like most, invests significant dollars and staff resources in collecting and assessing patient satisfaction survey data.  Our research indicates that one of the primary obstacles hospitals face in achieving satisfaction goals is the ability to translate reams of survey data into unit-level, actionable information.
 
Baptist Health Care has been the top performer in its satisfaction vendor database for 12 consecutive years.  Our experience has taught us, and our other healthcare clients, that the key to success in achieving and sustaining high scores lies in the ability to consistently operationalize survey data via core best practices.
 
Please join Katie Owens, Performance Improvement and Research Leader of the Baptist Leadership Group, to learn two key, evidence-based practices on how to make the most of your survey investment, and in doing so elevate your organization’s level of service excellence.
 
 
 
 
 

 


 

 
Goals, Alignment and Accountability: How to set the stage to become a high-performing healthcare organization
 
Presenter:  Baptist Leadership Group
 
Summary: Does your performance management system award leaders with a good evaluation, even if they didn’t meet their goals?  Aligning leader goals with organizational goals is key to driving accountability, which in turn impacts patient satisfaction, employee engagement, quality outcomes, and increased profitability.  These are the elements of a high-performing, world-class healthcare organization. We will present the nuts and bolts of accountability, alignment and execution.  You’ll also learn how you can easily automate the process using the Leader Performance System, our web-based performance management software tool that clearly establishes alignment, measures progress and helps drive results.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
Relating, Rounding and Measuring to Improve the Patient Experience
 
Presenter: Beverly Begovich, RN, BSN, MBA, Baptist Leadership Group, Consultant Leader
 
Summary: Beverly Begovich discusses effective communication strategies, connecting with senior leaders and creating a push system for reports that will strengthen quality improvement efforts.
 
 

 
 

 
It Depends on Who’s Listening:
The Communication Challenges Associated with Generational Diversity
 
 
Presenters: 
Bette Harriman, Baptist Leadership Group Consultant
Eli Pagonis, Baptist Leadership Group Director of Training & Development and Consultant
 
Summary: Baptist Leadership Group presents a webinar focused on navigating the murky waters of generational diversity. For the first time ever, today’s workplace is made up of four separate generations, all of whom are characterized by distinct mindsets, priorities, work-life issues, ethics and sources of inner motivation. Communicating effectively and meaningfully in an environment with such a wide range of age-based diversity is challenging, to say the least. And most likely how good you are at it depends on who’s listening!