What Would You Do with More Time?
Recent studies suggest the average executive makes about 139 decisions per week and only 50 of them are impactful.
Let’s put the emotional weight and stress of leading an organization aside for a moment and look just at the numbers. Getting the most value out of only 25% of your time doesn’t look great on a performance review, does it?
At Outcomes Institute we always explore the system as the root cause of individual performance. So, what’s going on?
When your week is a conveyor belt of crises, budgets, staffing gaps, and political triage, the important work of examining and improving your hospital, your systems, never makes the cut.
You feel the system’s friction every time a good nurse burns out, a dashboard updates, or a patient walks away wondering if anyone actually cared.
It feels this way because changing systems requires attention that ~250 weekly decisions do not allow.
It’s next to impossible to redesign a workflow between a board call and a supply chain fire. You cannot understand dynamics between units while negotiating a union contract. You cannot build a standard of care in the thirty seconds between your back-to-back meetings. So, the machinery stays broken, and your people compensate with heroics.
At the Outcomes Institute, we create the space that does not exist inside your calendar. We bring the experience of having served in your roles. We make the system visible. We discover the friction points, and the moments where your people are asked to carry the weight of bad design. We help you see what is driving performance so you can stop treating symptoms and start treating structure. We build the clarity that allows your existing investments in data, tools, and good people to finally work together.
When the system is clear, those 139 decisions a week? They will still be there, but your effort, leadership and creativity will be focused on the ones that matter.
If that type of future sounds interesting, we should talk. What critical decision needs more of your focus today?