Culture Bytes: Build a Leadership Improvement Strategy: 3 Targeted Tiers

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In this episode of Culture Change RX, Sue Tetzlaff discusses the importance of continuous quality improvement (CQI) in leadership, drawing from her extensive experience in healthcare leadership and improvement. She outlines three tiers of leadership improvement focus: individual leaders, senior leadership teams, and the entire leadership team. Sue emphasizes the need for systematic processes and models to strengthen leadership effectiveness and the impact of leadership on organizational culture. She also touches on the role of coaching and emotional intelligence in leadership development, encouraging organizations to assess their leadership improvement needs for the upcoming year.

• Continuous improvement is essential in leadership.
• Strengthening individual leaders leads to organizational strength.
• Dysfunction in senior leadership teams can hinder organization-wide progress.
• A systematic approach is needed for leadership team strengthening.
• Creating or adopting a leadership model enhances organizational effectiveness.
• Leadership has a significant impact on workplace culture.

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Hi! I’m Sue Tetzlaff. I’m a culture and execution strategist for small and rural healthcare organizations - helping them to be the provider and employer-of-choice so they can keep care local and margins strong.

For decades, I’ve worked with healthcare organizations to navigate the people-side of healthcare, the part that can make or break your results. What I’ve learned is this: culture is not a soft thing. It’s the hardest thing, and it determines everything.

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