Does your organization have an iron sense of budget discipline—all managers, all the time? Do your managers have a supreme sense of accountability? Do your labor hour budgets remain constant to volume year after year? Have you eliminated productivity losses? Do you have financial predictability and security? Are budgets quick and easy to prepare? You can answer a resounding "yes" to all these questions when you attend this audiowebcast intended for middle and senior managers.

The elements for an effective productivity management system include labor standards that all managers will observe without fail; reforming the internal policies and procedures that govern productivity management; reporting and monitoring protocols that everyone can easily understand; incentives to outperform; and consequences for coming up short. All the elements must support and enforce the concept of manager accountability to standard. While many organizations may have one or more of these elements in place, very few have all the elements coordinated and working together as a system. Anything less represents a critical weak link in the chain that destroys accountability.

Too often, organizations approach productivity as a finance-only project, dooming it to flounder in the apathetic or downright hostile healthcare culture. Frustrated, finance professionals turn to ever-tighter central controls, more frequent and detailed monitoring, and to larger squads of "budget police," all of which are somehow defeated. The more we try tightening the screws, the less successful we seem to be. Managers find a way around it. Instead, this course teaches participants to think strategically, and to construct specific strategic mechanisms to ensure success.