title: Increasing Medical Practice Team Commitment: Twenty-Five Strategies.
abstract: Employee commitment is one of the most important principles of practice man- agement. Yet commitment is delicate; it must be carefully earned, and it can easily deteriorate. This article explores practical strategies the medical practice manager can use to assess, foster, and increase employee commitment. It de- fines commitment and how commitment is manifested in employee attitudes and behavior. It provides a 10-question guide medical practice managers can use to assess employee commitment, and a four-part roadmap that will inspire commitment through leadership. This article also offers 25 hands-on strate- gies to increase employee commitment, and more than a dozen questions to guide difficult conversations with employees when their commitment level to the medical practice is low or unclear. Finally, this article suggest four drivers of employee commitment and a five-part strategy medical practice managers can use to model commitment through their own leadership.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hills
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods*; D011216:Practice Management, Medical