Are your efforts to improve burnout, turnover and engagement working?
Let’s change the conversation.
Despite all the attention focused on burnout, it continues to escalate. There is a better way. The difference is fortitude.
Our groundbreaking research on fortitude has provided new insights to address issues related to burnout and turnover. At Nexus Insights, using our proprietary and evidence-based approach, we partner with you to create customized solutions to help high achievers find balance, meaning, purpose, and energy by improving fortitude. We empower healthcare professionals with the requisite resources to create personalized approaches to manage their own wellbeing. It works! Using experimental and control groups, we have empirically established that our solutions significantly increase fortitude and decrease burnout.
Fortitude
Fortitude is the strength of mind that helps people endure stress and hardship with courage.
Resilience is critically important for healthcare workers. Fortitude goes beyond resilience. Resilience is reactive – the focus is on helping people bounce back from stress and hardship. Fortitude is proactive – the focus is on building skills to prevent stress and hardship. We developed a quantitative measure for fortitude, through groundbreaking research working with thousands of healthcare professionals. Our empirical research on fortitude shows that people with higher fortitude are less likely to burnout! Our healthcare fortitude scale (HCF-12) explains 4 times more variance in burnout and turnover than any other existing measure, including resilience, grit, hardiness and mental toughness.
What can we do about it?
Fortitude is a mailable mindset — focused facilitation and coaching can improve an individual’s level of fortitude. And high fortitude is significantly associated with lower burnout and lower turnover intent.
Have you ever noticed that cutting hours for a provider rarely results in decreased burnout?
Our research shows the efficacy of burnout interventions, such as cutting hours or improving culture, is significantly moderated by fortitude. Stated differently, if you improve the workplace environment and an individual has a high level of fortitude, there will be a significant decrease in burnout. Conversely, if an individual has a low level of fortitude, that same intervention has no impact on burnout.
“I have attended a number of leadership training sessions with Drs. Weinzimmer and Hippler [Nexus Insights]. They have an ability to encapsulate and coalesce concepts, then communicate them in a language that physicians can understand and relate to, resulting in practical applications with real change and personal growth.”
— Mark Meeker, DO, FACP, CPE, Vice President Community Medicine
