Aligning Your Priorities and Focus
Consulting
Consulting is available when you need extra support to achieve a goal. Are you attempting to position yourself to tackle a new market? Are you looking to grow and improve your small business or private practice? Or perhaps your business is hurting due to high turnover, and you are noticing dwindling patient outcomes and want to launch a “back to the basics” approach to realign your mission and vision. On either end of the spectrum extra support is needed to ensure all efforts are streamlined toward realizing success.
If you choose Pickard Solutions to help, we will start with a consultation so we can discuss your business goals and work to identify the gaps in productivity, knowledge, or personnel you may be experiencing. A few areas we will work on will be reviewing process, identifying best practices, efficiency evaluations, leadership review and identifying or refining your businesses strategy. Consulting items are available as an entire package where we pair together to work on short term and long-term goals. Or specific services can be identified to help you achieve maximum benefits with the resources you have available to invest.
One key item we recommend for all small business is focusing on efficiency.
Getting the most out of your day
Efficiency and Effectiveness Evaluations
Everyone wishes they had more time in the day. When we pause and examine what we spend our time on during our workday there are undoubtedly moments of redundancy, rework, or wasted time. There are also many negative habits that decrease productivity and staff satisfaction. Did you know that taking breaks throughout the day can boost productivity? Did you know that answering every email as soon as it comes in is not a sign of efficiency rather a sign of poor priorities?
Utilizing time motion studies tailored to the needs of healthcare I will evaluate any area of your company that you as an executive leader want to better understand. Do you have concerns about the processes in your organizing causing rework or "talking the long way around"? I will dive in with your staff to examine processes, people, and the everyday work to find areas to shave time, improve efficiencies and improve your bottom line.
Specific areas to conduct Efficiency Reviews
- Key positions – Focusing on interruptions, and task prioritization
- Meeting evaluation – The who, what, when and where of meetings matter
- Human resources evaluation – are candidates coming in as fast as you would like? What are the barriers to quick hires?
Containing the Chaos
Change Management
Change management is needed when a company decides to adjust a significant portion of their business. Examples include technology shifts, a culture change, significant staffing restructure, implementing new procedures or policies, or adding a new service line.
Areas we can assist with include:
- Identify current staff strengths and opportunities for upskilling
- Identify change champions within your organization
- Continuous communication with team
- Foster staff buy-in
- Develop sustainability plan
- Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPI) with management
- Provide direction on long-term monitoring of success
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
