to the healthcare challenge is the fact that unhealthy lifestyle habits are killing us. Nearly 40% of all deaths in the United States every year are a result of smoking, poor diet, lack of exercise or alcohol abuse.
As individuals, most healthcare professionals don’t have much control over healthcare reform legislation or how other people choose to live their lives. But we do have control over these two things:
1.Personally: Taking better care of ourselves.
2.Professionally: Equipping ourselves with the skills and motivation to more effectively manage rapid healthcare change.
I’ll explore point #2, professional shedding, in depth throughout the rest of the book. But first, let’s look at what we can each do personally.
What You Can Do Personally
If we were honest with ourselves, many of us would admit that once we began our healthcare career, the daily stresses of delivering care began to override the core intent of our own health. The tacit message to the public has become, “Do as I say, not as I do.” We have to do something different to stay healthy and prepare ourselves to deal with the upcoming changes. Healthcare professionals must SHED!
It’s Not Just About Knowledge, It’s About Action!
Ironically, healthcare professionals have more knowledge about staying healthy than any other profession. We counsel our patients about it every day.
And yet, heart disease, cancer and diabetes all top the list of killers.But it’s not just about knowledge. If being healthy was just about knowledge, we wouldn’t have any doctors who smoked, nurses who are overweight or healthcare workers that didn’t start their day with exercise.
Just think about how our industry could be positively impacted if we, as healthcare professionals, started taking care of ourselves. We certainly would put a dent in the Surgeon General’s statistic: Seven out of ten illnesses are lifestyle related.
If we don’t set the example for the public, who will? If we don’t stand up and make our own healthcare important and embrace the foundational principles upon which our profession is based, the disease called “Didn’t SHED” will quickly rise to the top of the “Causes of Death For Healthcare Workers” list.
Are You Ready to SHED?
Take care of your body. Where else are you going to live?
DIAGNOSIS: People Don’t Know How to SHED!
The #1 Skill We’re Hiring For Is…
Recently, I was speaking at a major healthcare conference. Before I was introduced, the vice president of the 10,000 employee system stood up and announced,
“The number one skill we are hiring for today is the ability to learn on the fly!’
Ten years ago that statement would have been unthinkable. Back then, people asked: Where did you go to school? What’s your work history? Can you take a blood pressure reading? Not the “ability to learn on the fly.”
In reality, what the hospital executive was saying is the ability to adapt quickly to change is paramount. The new expectation is:“What we’re hiring you for today is probably not what we are going to be asking you to do tomorrow.”
No Organization Can Thrive Unless their People Can SHED!
Why do 75% of all change efforts fail? They fail largely because people feel left out of the process and lack the knowledge, skills and motivation to adapt to the organization’s new systems, processes and procedures.
Successful healthcare professionals will embody “temporary” as the norm and learn to promptly detach from ineffective roles, ideas and “the way we have always done it.”
Embody temporary as the norm.
The SHED Pill
Imagine you could administer a pill — the SHED Pill — to everyone you worked with and, as soon as you gave it to them, they would accept change faster.
After taking the SHED Pill, your team would have the skills and motivation to navigate all the turbulent changes going on in the healthcare industry. No negative attitudes. No resistance to change. They could immediately learn on the fly. In short, after taking the SHED Pill they would instantaneously be transformed into “Super-shedders”:
What would your organization be like if everyone was a Super-shedder? The results might be:
•Increased productivity
•Improved bottom line
•Healthier and happier employees
I must caution you… since the “SHED Pill” is still in clinical trials, and hasn’t been approved by the FDA, we will need to equip ourselves and others with the necessary skills and sustainable motivation to lead and master change on our own.
Commit to being a Super-shedder!
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