Lara Goitein ([email protected]) is the founding medical director of the Clinician-Directed Performance Improvement program at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, ...

Supervisors and managers are expected to set clear standards of acceptable work performance and use timely verbal and, as necessary, written feedback as an initial way to correct unsatisfactory work ...

The following is excerpted from Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management by Bahadir Inozu, Dan Chauncey, Vickie Kamataris, and Charles ...

Hospital leaders are under tremendous pressure to achieve value-based care while doing more with less. Initiatives to support these goals and execute process changes are complex and require more than ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is continuing its efforts to disseminate knowledge on how operational safety performance at nuclear installations can be continuously improved. This ...

A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is a tool designed to give an employee with performance deficiencies the opportunity to succeed. It may be used to address issues with meeting specific job goals ...

A performance improvement plan, or PIP, is a formal, structured and specific plan that outlines a performance problem and steps for improvement. As a company leader, you can use a PIP to develop an ...

Here’s an open secret of leadership — most leaders hate having performance improvement conversations with their employees. It’s never fun telling someone that their job performance isn’t up to par, ...

Performance appraisals, or employee reviews, are useful tools for employee development initiatives. Performance appraisals can identify a company's top performers to ensure the most productive ...

In HR and talent management, Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) have long been the standard approach to addressing performance issues. Ostensibly designed to help employees improve, PIPs often serve ...