by Elise Sullivan | May 30, 2016 | Nurse Led Recovery
Groups of people can be more than the sum of the individuals – but only if the conditions inside them allow the individuals to shine. In 2010, MIT released their findings that collective intelligence of the groups they studied explained 40% of their performance. That’s a lot. And it didn’t matter how intelligent the individuals inside these groups were. Makes sense. We have experienced how the capacity of group of people has been defined – and in many cases, limited by the most dominant person – isn’t this right?
by Elise Sullivan | May 5, 2016 | Nurse Led Recovery
The power of the customer is growing and disrupting the health and aged care industry. Now one would expect that an industry that is built of people, for people, by people – such as health and aged care, would have no problem responding to this. But lo. This is not always the case. In fact, measuring ‘patient experience’ is a relatively new concept. I explore the reason behind it in this blog post.
by Elise Sullivan | Apr 19, 2016 | Nurse Led Recovery
It occurs to me that other people’s ego can stop us from operating at our best – at our highest level of capacity – and the other people can be your peers, other professionals or it can be your boss.
by Elise Sullivan | Mar 28, 2016 | Nurse Led Recovery
Managers and clinicians in public health are so busy they simply do not have time to think of better ways of working, of learning new ways of working that would make their work easier, more effective and more efficient. They are stuck in a busyness vortex that is keeping them stuck in time – and yet the demands on their time are increasing and changing. They are so fixated on getting things done on time, that they can’t stop to reflect if these things are the right things, or if it is possible for someone else, or something else, to do these things.
by Elise Sullivan | Mar 21, 2016 | Nurse Led Recovery
Nearly 60% of frontline managers underperform during their first two years and this results in performance gaps, and employee turnover. The reality is that great leaders never stop learning. But to get to that point they have to be supported to make the transition from great clinician to great manager.
