
Connecting the Dots
Baptist Management System (BMS) is an improvement system that focuses on creating a holistic management system built on purpose, people, and process. BMS exist within the overall operating system of Baptist Memorial Health Care. BMS promotes and is based on the following 11 Guiding Principles: Respect, Humility, Trust, Empathy, Perfection, Process Focus, Scientific Thinking, Quality at the Source, Flow and Pull, Constancy of Purpose, Systemic Thinking. As we embed the 11 Guiding Principles into our culture, demonstrated by our ideal principled-based behaviors, we will be passionate about continually improving the experience and outcomes for our customers.
The information discussed in the Connecting the Dots podcast are meant as a discussion about the subject of continuous improvement. It might showcase what our best, most motivated users have achieved. Expected outcomes and results may vary. All testimonials are real, may not reflect another user's experience, and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results.
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Latest episodes

May 23, 2024 • 38min
Writing for Busy Readers with Todd Rogers
Todd Rogers is professor of public policy at Harvard. He’s coauthor of Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World. To learn more see this 1-page checklist or use this AI email editing tool. He leads award-winning workshops on effective communication for organizations around the world.Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release dateContact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.

May 16, 2024 • 36min
PDSA Cycles Record with Gemma Jones
Gemma is an Improvement Coach, Trainer, and Visual Facilitator, based in the UK and working globally. Gemma started her career in Engineering and quickly found a passion for Improvement. She spent 20 years in Manufacturing across numerous industries, then in 2019 she left employment to build her own business. Gemma's mission is to help organisations and individuals be the BEST they can be, by helping people SEE, helping people THINK, and helping people CHANGE.Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release dateContact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.

May 9, 2024 • 27min
Why Care? with Chris Butterworth
Chris is a co-author of three Shingo Publication award winning books - "4+1 Embedding a Culture of Continuous Improvement " , " The Essence of Excellence " and “Why Bother?” . He edited the Shingo Institute book “Enterprise Alignment and Results” and is a Shingo Institute Faculty Fellow, master trainer and examiner. Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release dateContact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.

May 2, 2024 • 29min
Reimaging Health Care Through Fiction with Dr. Jake Lancaster
Dr. Jake Lancaster is the Chief Medical Information Officer(CMIO) for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation and Chief Medical Officerfor the Baptist Medical Group. He also continues to practice as a part-time internist for the Baptist Medical Group (BMG). Dr. Lancaster completed his undergraduate degree in physicsat the University of Mississippi and Sally McDonald Barksdale Honors College,where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He earned his medicaldegree at the University of Mississippi, where he served as student bodypresident and was inducted into the medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha. Hethen went on to complete an internal medicine residency at the University ofAlabama at Birmingham, where he simultaneously completed a Master of Science inHealthcare Administration from the UAB School of Health Related Professions. After residency, he pursued a fellowship in the field ofClinical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and earned anadditional Master’s degree in Applied Clinical Informatics from VanderbiltUniversity. After completing fellowship, he went on to be the Chief MedicalInformation Officer at West Tennessee Healthcare in Jackson, TN, where he practicedas an outpatient internal medicine physician and hospitalist. He is board certified in internal medicine through theAmerican Board of Internal Medicine and clinical informatics through theAmerican Board of Preventive Medicine. He is a member of the American Collegeof Physicians and the American Medical Informatics Association. He is also aFellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and the author of thebook “The Matter of Medicine.” Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release dateContact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.

Apr 25, 2024 • 31min
KBI (Key Behaviour Indicators) with Richard Perry
Richard is a UK born Australian who has spent 40 years working globally on Business Improvement across Retail, Supply Chain, Telco, Banking and Education sectors. From this career there emerged a single thread of learning which was so consistent and so impactful that Richard felt compelled to pull it out, capture and share it. The resulting book places Key Behaviour Indicators (KBI's) at the center of an organization’s ability to achieve genuine high performance and move towards a target Culture. KBIs are not KPIs for people, they open a window into the Mindset of your organization. They tell you if your Culture is real or dead on a meeting room poster. Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release dateContact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.

Apr 18, 2024 • 31min
Debrief to WIN with Robert “Cujo” Teschner
Robert “Cujo” Teschner is a combat veteran. He’s a former F-15 “Eagle” instructor at the prestigious U.S. Air Force Weapons school—the Air Force “Top Gun” program. He’s also a former F-22 “Raptor” fighter squadron commander, having commanded one of America’s precious few operational F-22 fighter squadrons. During his time teaching at the Weapons School, Cujo served as the U.S. Air Force’s Subject Matter Expert on the practice of team accountability. His published work from that time is still in use throughout the Air Force today. Specifically, Cujo authored “The Vocabulary of the Debrief” and helped mold the Methodology of the Debrief, defining the language and accountability practices that the Air Force uses to the present day.A 1995 distinguished military graduate of the Air Force Academy and a 2013 distinguished graduate of the National War College, Cujo retired from the Air Force in December 2015, achieving the rank of full Colonel. But because of a battle with colorectal cancer, Cujo and his family decided to retire from the Air Force early. Team Teschner’s ambition was to focus on Cujo’s health and to accommodate the fact that his body was largely broken. This led to Cujo’s introduction to entrepreneurship.Back when he was teaching at the Weapons School, Cujo believed that the principles he was teaching applied to a much wider audience. In fact, as Cujo started to refine and update the Accountability practices he would teach for the entirety of his time at the Weapons School, he also started thinking about translating those principles to business. Once cancer forced him to give up his ability to fly high-performance fighter aircraft, he pivoted to teaching businesses the principles that allow all teams to thrive in disruption. And he’s never looked back.Cujo is now the founder and CEO of VMax Group, an international leadership training company. He is also the national bestselling author of Debrief to Win: How America’s Top Guns Practice Accountable Leadership … and How You Can, Too! His second book, Aiming Higher: A Journey Through Military Aviation Leadership also immediately went to #1 on the Amazon bestseller list. Cujo has built his growing company from scratch, and everyone in the company is committed to the company’s purpose: To teach and inspire real teamwork so that teams thrive in disruption and keep our economy strong.Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release dateContact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.

Apr 11, 2024 • 30min
Start where you are with Billy Ray Taylor
Billy Ray Taylor is the CEO of LinkedXL and author of “The Winning Link“. Billy previously worked at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company for 30 years; starting off on the plant floor and retiring as Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion and Executive Director of Commercial, Off Highway, and Support Manufacturing North America.Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release dateContact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.

Apr 4, 2024 • 31min
Improving all domains of outcomes using the Pulse Program with Korby Miller
Korby Miller discusses the Pulse Program at Prisma Health, focusing on enhancing outcomes by emphasizing data collection, transparency, and system improvement efforts. The Great Catch program improves safety reporting and fosters a culture of trust. Learning collaboratives drive patient satisfaction improvements, and prioritizing engaged individuals encourages behavior change for organizational growth.

Mar 28, 2024 • 38min
The Coaching Habit & The Advice Trap with Michael Bungay Stanier (aka MBS)
Michael Bungay Stanier has a gift for distilling big, complex ideas into practical, accessible knowledge for everyday people that helps them be a force for good. His books have sold over a million copies, with The Coaching Habit topping the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. MBS has been featured on the blogs and social media platforms of thought leaders including Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss, and Brené Brown, and has appeared on ABC, BBC, CBC, Ted.com, and innumerable podcasts―as well as in notable publications including the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Inc., and Fast Company. MBS is the founder of Box of Crayons, a learning and development company, that helps organizations move from advice-driven action to curiosity-led transformation. They have trained more than half a million people for clients including Microsoft, Salesforce, TELUS and Gucci. Before establishing Box of Crayons, MBS’s accomplishments included publishing an academic article on James Joyce and a Harlequin-esque short story; playing small roles in helping invent Pizza Hut’s Stuffed Crust pizza and creating “one of the worst single-malt whiskies in existence”; and spending 20 minutes writing what has remained GlaxoSmithKline’s global vision for more than 20 years. A former Rhodes Scholar, MBS is an Australian who now lives in Toronto, Canada. You can join others committed to being a force for change at MBS.worksLink to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release dateContact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.

Mar 21, 2024 • 25min
A Framework for Strategic Development and Integration of the Advanced Practice Executive
Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release dateContact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.