The GREAT Every Time Skill-Building Program: 5 Modules
Objective for the GREAT Every Time program: To inspire every member of your team to advance from good to consistently great in everyday situations (greetings, handoffs, and goodbyes) by employing best practices that reduce customer anxiety and earn trust and cooperation.
GREAT Every Time is a comprehensive, long-term training program designed to produce sustainable behavior change.
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Benefits for Patients and Their Families- Reduced anxiety and stress
- A perception of emotional safety, heartwarming care and emotional support
- Greater trust and cooperation with their care providers
- Better health outcomes
Benefits for Staff- Reconnection to the caring mission that drove them into healthcare
- Greater gratification in their work
- Pride in making an important difference to people at their most vulnerable times
Benefits for Your Organization- A reputation for not only great care, but exceptionally caring service
- Improved performance on CAHPS and other patient satisfaction surveys
- Greater employee satisfaction and retention
- A stronger position as provider of choice in your competitive healthcare marketplace
Note: This Program Is for All of Us...whether we serve patients and families directly, or we serve the people who do—our internal customers.
The Results:
A healing environment in which patients and families are:- Less anxious
- Impressed by everyone’s warmth and caring
- Positive about their total experience
Five Modules called “Skill-Builders”
GREAT Every Time consists of five “Skill-Builders”. Each one strengthens a single skill and helps people apply the skill when interacting with their customers. Each Skill-Builder includes a compelling video-based employee workshop, tools for hardwiring, and reinforcements.
Skill-Builder Components Key to Optimal Results Employee Engagement
A short, video-based Employee Workshop (to engage your team and teach the skill)
| Hardwiring
Follow-up options to help staff master, apply and consistently use the skill in their everyday work
| Reinforcements
Script samples, skill reminder cards, posters, recognition tools, and suggestions for leaders to keep the skills alive
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Read on to learn about each Skill-Builder.
| Skill-Builder | Rationale | Learners will be able to: | #1: GREAT Every Time
| Many employees feel that their performance is already good. While they may be right, good is not GREAT. This Skill-Builder makes a powerful case for aspiring to a higher standard and highlights the benefits to the people we serve, ourselves and our organization.
| Understand the importance of aspiring to GREATness in their everyday routines by:- Attending to the details, and
- Designing and mastering a personal approach to everyday situations that is based on best practices and consistently impressive
| #2: Reduce Anxiety, Enhance Satisfaction
| In health care, because we serve people who are sick and vulnerable, making people “happy” is a less relevant and realistic goal than reducing people’s anxiety. This Skill-Builder makes the case for focusing on ways we can prevent and reduce the anxiety of the people we serve, especially by the way we communicate with them.
| - Recognize the powerful link between anxiety reduction and patient satisfaction
- Take initiative and communicate in ways that reduce the anxiety of the people we serve
- Employ three keys to easing anxiety to enhance the healthcare experience
| #3: GREAT Greetings Every Time
| First impressions last. When we greet our customers, the quality of our greetings affects how our customers move on to experience our colleagues and our services. This Skill-Builder demonstrates effective vs. ineffective greetings and demonstrates best practices.
| Identify and apply best practices for impressive greetings that build trust, reduce anxiety and pave the way to a positive experience
| #4: GREAT Handoffs Every Time
| Patients and families become increasingly anxious as they move from one person or service to another. This Skill-Builder shines the light on handoff situations and identifies best practices that ease customer anxiety.
| Identify and apply best communication practices that reduce customer anxiety as we transition our customers to another person or service
| #5: GREAT Goodbyes Every Time
| Our last interactions with the people we serve create the memory they carry away with them. This Skill-Builder illustrates the differences between poor, lackluster and great goodbyes and provides tips for making our goodbyes positively memorable.
| Identify and apply the key elements of impressive closings that leave customers feeling clear and respected, as well as positive about their experience with us and our services
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The Toolkit for Each Skill-Builder

This toolkit includes easy-to-use tools for employee engagement, hardwiring and reinforcement.

Also Included When You Purchase This Program:- Program Implementation Guide
- Team Facilitator’s Guide
- Initial consultation on adapting the program to your specific needs and realities
Hear Jamie Markel,
Director of Organization Development, as she comments on GREAT Every Time at WellSpan Health
Leadership Development to Maximize Results from GREAT Every Time - Prepare managers to facilitate and manage the process with their teams
- Strengthen key skills that help them engage their teams, hold them accountable, and strengthen caring relationships with other departments and services
Four customizable leadership sessions are available:
- Kickoff: The Great Customer Experience: Leading the Way to Breakthroughs
- How to Engage Your Staff in Enhancing the Patient/Customer Experience
- Accountability Essentials
- Building Bridges: From Turf to Team
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