GI Unit Leadership: (Re)Starting Your Quality Program (Virtual only) | February 2023-Presentation 3 Building and Cultivating your Team John Martin

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In this video, Dr. John Martin discusses the importance of building and cultivating a successful team in a medical practice. He emphasizes the need for recruitment, retention, termination, and outsourcing to be done according to a unified plan with a forward-thinking vision. Dr. Martin explains that building a team means developing it systematically and making it stronger and more intense. Cultivating a team involves fostering growth, improving through labor, care, and study, and creating a culture that can propel the team forward. A team, according to Dr. Martin, is a group of people who work together towards a common goal. He advises on how to recruit new team members who not only have the necessary clinical skills but also fit into the team culture and enhance it. Dr. Martin highlights the importance of retaining exceptional talent by providing opportunities for career and personal growth, recognizing and supporting their lives outside of work, and properly compensating each team member. He discusses termination when someone no longer fits into the culture or meets certain criteria. Dr. Martin also discusses the benefits of outsourcing to add talent and skills from outside the practice. He concludes by emphasizing the importance of human resources as a valuable and costly asset that drives practice income and should be diligently recruited and retained.

Keywords

team building

medical practice

recruitment

retention

termination

outsourcing

team culture