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This week on the Healthcare Experience Matters podcast we are exploring the practical application of new research on leader behaviors. This is a fantastic recap on what’s new in this field and how we can apply it to our everyday working environments in patient care.
This episode is a condensed version of a recent live learning event from the Healthcare Experience Foundation’s content team. This learning event has been edited down and repackaged into a friendly podcast listening experience. We hope you enjoy this opportunity to catch up on this important subject matter.
This chat is led by the Healthcare Experience Foundation’s Kathleen Lynam. Kathleen is Executive Coach and Senior Advisor with HXF. She has dedicated her entire career to patient care and physician coaching.
She is a national speaker, presenter, and champion for patient care. Before stepping into the world of healthcare administration and, specifically, coaching, Kathleen spent over 40 years as a front-line nurse and Chief Nursing Officer at various medical centers and hospitals throughout New Jersey and New York.
In today’s broadcast, Kathleen shares what new research demonstrates are high impact behaviors for this year and beyond. This includes practical implications for leadership agility, teaming, and conflict strategies that foster engagement across staff and physicians.
According to Kathleen, making change starts with looking in the mirror and doing the things that we can control.
“It’s really important to hold up the mirror and begin with the leadership behaviors that we, ourselves, demonstrate,” Kathleen said.
Leading with agility and the power of empathy are other key concepts covered in-depth during today’s discussion.
“We have learned from experience that leaders who lead with empathy and concern are the one’s we most remember, as opposed to those who are more process oriented,” she said.
Kathleen also discusses the art of de-escalating touchy situations in the workplace while offering us some key advice. There are plenty of pearls of wisdom regarding conflict resolution and calming down a potentially hostile environment in this podcast.
“When someone is angry with you, forget the words and focus on the emotion,” she reminds us.
The foundation of most of today’s discussion comes down to strong emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence has been covered on our podcast in some other great episodes:
As Kathleen wraps up today’s discussion, she mentions the importance of recognizing the “continuum of incivility” that may be present in our workplaces and she offers solutions about dealing with it.
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Meet Kathleen Lynam, RN, MPA
Today, Kathleen Lynam brings extensive clinical, operational, and executive level experience in both small and large healthcare organizations across the country to her role as Executive Coach. But Kathleen is so much more than a coach. She is a national speaker, presenter and champion for patient care. Before stepping into the world of healthcare administration and, specifically, coaching, Kathleen spent over 40 years as a front-line nurse and Chief Nursing Officer at various medical centers and hospitals systems throughout New Jersey and New York. She knows what strong teams look and act like, having served in various leadership and coaching positions for large healthcare systems like Duke University Health System in Raleigh, Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, New York as well as urban hospitals and community medical centers in the Bronx and Queens.
Now, with over 40 years of diverse experience in healthcare management, Kathleen is acutely aware of the power of positive patient care experiences on not just administrators seeking to improve outcomes, but also nursing teams working to make a difference in the lives of their patients.
Whether it’s working side-by-side to help front-line nurses and teams uncover different ways to wow patients and families, or working side-by-side with CEOs and CMOs of hospitals to solicit authentic feedback from members of their teams, Kathleen’s greatest delight is empowering healthcare teams with an engaging, hands-on approach that helps both organizations and individuals thrive.
Kathleen is a respected executive coach who has worked with organizations across the country to achieve results through embracing a culture of “every patient every time.” She has authored numerous articles on patient-centered communication, physician engagement and coaching, and has been a featured writer and speaker for notable organizations and publications such as PX Advisor Magazine, The Beryl Institute, Duke University, Dominical College School of Nursing, AACP, and the Society of Healthcare Pharmacists.
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