14 Ways To Know Whether You Are Failing As A Hospital Administrator

I’ve been an administrator. I’ve seen hospitals in which a strong leadership team has improved the hospital’s market share and I’ve seen hospitals that have closed and that are struggling to stay open due to a failed administrative team. Here are some common traits I’ve seen in the failures: 1. You don’t know the names of the people who work in your corporation. You aren’t fooling anyone when you walk the halls without addressing people by their names. All this shows is that you don’t care to take the time to know them. If you don’t take the time to get to know them, why should they care about your corporation? 2. You spend a lot of time and effort seeking feedback about your employees’ performance, but you spend little or no time seeking feedback about your own performance. All this shows is that you are a hypocrite. People hate hypocrites. 3. Your hospital has a high employee turnover rate. This isn’t an issue with employees, it is a clear and unequivocal issue with management. People don’t leave their jobs, they leave their bosses. If your hospital has a high turnover in one department and you aren’t seriously evaluating that department manager’s work, you have no business running a hospital. 4. Your “help wanted” listings go unfilled. In an economy with high unemployment, the fact that people would choose to stay unemployed rather than work for you and your organization ...
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