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United States Weather Conditions
Oregon's Eagle Creek fire along the Columbia River Monday we reflected on the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States. It was a pivotal moment in the country’s history and Americans continue to recognize its importance in our lives on its anniversary each year....
Happy Labor Day
We wish you and your loved ones a safe and fun holiday weekend
Hurricane Harvey
Wiederhold & Associates has a long history with the Houston and Corpus Christi areas and its people. In fact, Mitali Paul, our Vice President of Business Development and Career Transition Specialist lives in Pearland. All of us in the Wiederhold family hope and...
Performance Excellence Simplified: Achieve Value Based Results
High performing leaders in healthcare organizations of today are challenged with the uncertainty of healthcare delivery in the future. Many hospitals face a challenge among key stakeholders. That challenge is a brand/reputation shift toward value based care. Mission,...
Bad Bosses and Good Leaders
We are facing a critical era of transformation in healthcare. As organizations strategize to find stability through turbulent times, managers, directors, and executives will feel added pressure to achieve continuous, dynamic results. The success of each department...
Process Management: Achieve Value-Based Results
“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing.” Such a profound quote by W. Edwards Deming, largely recognized as the Father of the Quality Movement. Dr. Deming's famous 14 Points, originally presented in Out of the Crisis,...
Enhanced Regional Referral
The Problem – Across the nation, health systems are reporting a sustained decline in Emergency Department utilization, resulting in decreased admission rates and reduced patient days. Regardless of the cause (Healthcare Reform, economic challenges, rising...
Leadership Key: Impact Conversations
By Joy W. Goldman | Leadership Coaching In the March, 2017 newsletter, I introduced the topic of trust and highlighted five ways leaders increase trust in their organizations. Today, I wanted to provide an overview of two very practical tools that can be used to...
Happy 4th of July!
Wishing you and your loved ones a happy and safe Fourth of July
Goal Setting: Preventable Patient Harm – ‘Target Zero?’
During a recent goal-setting cycle, I worked on setting reasonable, although loftier, strategic goal metrics due to significant LEAN expert resourcing for my management team to focus on making transformative leaps in process improvements rather than small, incremental...
Target Success with Advanced Networking Strategies
Because you've been a part of the Wiederhold & Associates Network, we wanted to share some exciting news with you first. As you know, networking/connecting is essential to your success both while in transition and gainfully employed. Networking with a purpose is a...
Building and Repairing your Online Reputation
The Internet has changed the game for job seekers. The paper resume has been swapped out for a LinkedIn profile. Face-to-face meetings have been replaced with Facetime. Your local word-of-mouth reputation is small potatoes next to someone with a well-developed online...
Wiederhold & Associates remembers our fallen on Memorial Day
Achieve Value-based Results in Healthcare: Knowledge Management/Transfer Through Data Analytics
Physician alignment, integration and engagement in integrated delivery systems are essential elements in navigating the complexity of healthcare service delivery. Healthcare organizations need a simplified approach to realize organizational vision of comprehensive and...
The Concept of Networking
The whole concept of networking is one of my favorite and most passionate subjects. In prior articles, we have touched on many aspects of effective networking, whether in transition or not. Building a broad and deep network is so essential to one's success that it...
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