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Zoom DEI Initiatives Take a Blow as Layoff Trends Affect the Diversity Team

HR Digest

While other companies were struggling to break even and keep their operations afloat, Zoom was one brand that was growing exponentially and it was well-placed to develop its operations and consider additional areas of growth, such as the development of Zoom’s internal diversity and inclusion policies.

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Lasting Change = Head Knowledge + Heart Knowledge

Michael Lee Stallard

We spend time discussing their own past work experiences and how they square with what we’re sharing about connection and disconnection—whether they felt fired up or burned out, and how the team functioned under those circumstances. As her team members responded positively, the physician could feel her actions were connecting with them.

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When Work Has Meaning, The Culture Changes

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds: In order to value team members, or help them find meaning in their work - that is, contribution to the greater good, to their community or even society - you don’t need to start a formal organizational initiative. The test team bonded together like no other team in that factory, because they felt their ideas were valued.

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Preview Thursday: Clarity First

Lead Change Blog

Ambiguity leads to substandard performance, as leaders and team members at all levels invest time and effort on priorities that don’t bring significant benefit. Ambiguity prevents organizations from operating with focus, discipline, and engagement. “living is easy with eyes closed.”. Lack of clarity runs the meeting with no agenda.

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Lessons from Mayo Clinic’s Redesign of Stroke Care

Harvard Business Review

At the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Stroke Center Practice, we conducted a project to design and deliver care more customized to the needs of individual patients while reducing cost and resource constraints. Source: Mayo Clinic Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Kern Center). NIH stroke scale (NIHSS) range.

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How Mayo Clinic Is Simplifying Prenatal Care for Low-Risk Patients

Harvard Business Review

To address this problem, in 2011 a group at Mayo Clinic led by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology launched an initiative to transform prenatal care from this medicalized model to an innovative wellness model. In 2016 it was added as a standard care option at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Home-monitoring equipment.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes.