How many of these statements do you think are accurate?

How many of these statements do you think are accurate?

📌 There’s a workforce crisis everywhere in primary care.

📌 Many practices are working hard to improve recruitment and retention.

📌 Fewer practices are actively working on succession planning.

📌 Even fewer practices have a talent management program.

I would think all of them are true. I’d hazard a guess that succession planning and talent management are not even on the radar. They’re unfamiliar enough areas that most practices, understandably, might not feel confident enough or equipped to create and implement their own succession planning or talent management programs.

Yet, they can have a significant impact on retention and recruitment, and the sustainability of general practice. Some of the benefits to a practice can be:

📈 The team are more engaged

📈 Your recruitment is more successful

📈 You have greater staff retention

📈 Motivation and morale is improved

📈 Innovation and creativity increases

📈 The practice performs better

Maybe you're thinking that talent management, which succession planning can be considered a part of, doesn’t fit in primary care and is best left to big business. This absolutely isn’t the case.

I have had talent management and succession planning programs working effectively in practice, producing fantastic retention, multi-skilled staff, promotions from within and great success when recruiting.

We all want to make things better in primary care, and if what you've always done isn't working then why not try a different approach.

Let me know if you'd like to talk about talent management or succession planning.