CTI Leadership

In the Medscape 2021 Survey, 79% of the physicians surveyed confirmed that burnout started way before COVID while 21% reported that they experienced stress and exhaustion after COVID due to many factors including lack of PPE, watching their patients die without their families, and chronic stressful conditions due to COVID cases. Using a hassle factor index survey (free copy can be found here on CTI website) to help your nurses and physicians identify the hassle factors that are in their way causing them stress, frustration and extra work. The best solution to help reduce the bureaucratic tasks and spending many hours at work (the top 2 causes of burnout in the survey), is to hire a virtual assistant to take care of all documentation and bureaucratic task so physicians can spend more time at home. our family’s health and lives to our physicians all the time, let’s do everything we can to support those physicians and to take care of them first, so they can take good care of our families and loved ones when we need them.

You feel happy when life behaves the way you want it to. What are the signs of a In general, we can tell that people are happy when they smile and laugh readily, are quick to be happy for others and slow to feel or show anger or resentment, are able to enjoy simple pleasures, and feel and express gratitude easily. As I strive to create a meaningful and joyful life, cultivating certain behaviors and mindsets can help me (e.g., focusing on a sense of purpose and meaning, living in line with my values, being authentic and honest with myself and others, cultivating gratitude and compassion). 4 – Agility – Go with the Flow: Unhappiness comes when we feel we are not in control of a situation or when the situation does not turn out the way we were expecting.

One of my healthcare group coaching teams is not only short staffed, but also overwhelmed with demands for their services due to COVID and the demand for flu and COVID vaccines. It is time to accept that we are not going back to normal any time soon and to start dealing with the new normal. Determine which items on your list are so strategic and time–sensitive that not doing them would have major negative implications for the future. Decide on what can be delayed or discontinued in order to preserve the time needed to focus on higher priorities and bigger impact projects (

It is that time of year when we typically start thinking about goal setting, team alignment and engagement and even personal goals or new year resolutions. We typically set a fixed target for specific metrics, but in the midst of uncertainty, it is more appropriate to provide a range for success instead of a fixed target. Healthy optimism maintains confidence in our ability to lead and in our team’s ability to collaborate, innovate and execute in the best way possible in response to any challenge or opportunity. Focus on 90-day victories: After you’ve set clear goals and ensured alignment of resources, turn your focus to reading the terrain.