We had our lens trained on health care, when we spoke about Green Teams on the radio show last week.
Hospitals and healthcare systems are just that -systems. Applying triple bottom line thinking to a large system takes an enormous degree of organization. But it also takes something that’s hard to bolt-on -passion.
Our conversation revolved around the invisible thread of human motivation that runs through those three overlapping entities: employees, patients and the community.
How do they communicate with each other? Dr. Joan Plisko, Technical Director of Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (MD H2E) and Colleen Cusick of Johns Hopkins talked about the decentralized, yet coordinated team activity they lead. What came out, however, was the huge communication part of the equation.
Communication?
In the age of so many easy-to-implement tools from enterprise email to ad-hoc Facebook Groups? Sometimes different parts of a company don’t know what each other is doing, and rather than see this as a problem, this is an opportunity for a Green Team, said Dr. Plisko. She used the example of eWaste in healthcare systems.
Here’s a snippet of our conversation about communications for Green Teams.
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