New Pay for New Work!
Robert T. Yokl
President & Chief Value Strategist
Greetings!
New Pay for New Work!
We just held our summer session of our Certified Value Analysis 3-day Training Program which brought into the daylight that only a small number of healthcare organizations are rewarding and recognizing their value team members for the hard work that they do.
This hasn’t ever made sense to me, since hospitals, systems and IDNs should be authorizing new pay for new work that these value teams are doing. By incentivizing your value teams you can keep them on track, on budget and keyed up to save even more money for your healthcare organization.
I’m so convinced that this is the right thing to do that we mandate that every healthcare organization that installs our LEAN Value Analysis Program also establish a rewards and recognition program to encourage their value teams to be peak performers. Or, why else would their staff squeeze into their already busy days, weeks and months all this new work. Rewarding people for extra work is not only logical but it’s a key facet of human nature!
Every client of ours who has adopted this philosophy of “new pay for new work” has been repaid for their investment by at least 100 fold. Likewise, their value team members’ productivity, creativity and doggedness has risen to a new level of superior performance.
Reward and recognition programs aren’t just the right thing to do for your value teams, but are a prerequisite for everlasting savings and quality improvements. Without this your value teams aren’t firing on ALL eight cylinders, just meandering along on three or four cylinders!
Isn’t it time you get your value teams into high gear?
Your Partner In Savings Beyond Price™,
Robert T Yokl
Chief Value Strategist
Strategic Value Analysis® In Healthcare
800-220-4274
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P.P.S. Don’t forget to check out my new blog article “Fail Often to Quickly Succeed”. This blog is all about how failure isn’t a stigma, but an opportunity for massive innovation.
