Company overview

Learn more about how our vast array of solutions and best-in-class technologies are powerfully serving the healthcare workforce. 

Our brands

They say you can’t choose your family – but we did. We think you will, too. Our family of companies can tackle problems of any size, big or small. 

Our role in healthcare

Learn more about how we use our unrivaled staffing experience, best-in-class technology, and strategic consultation to help your organization succeed.

Executive leadership

Meet our team of executive leaders who are guiding our efforts to make life better for providers, patients, and healthcare organizations. 

Core values

See how our core values guide all our business decisions and drive us to find new ways to make life better for those we serve in the healthcare industry.

Community impact

Learn more about how we give back to communities both near and far through fundraisers, team activities, medical missions, and more. 

Solutions overview

See how we’re delivering customized workforce solutions that are doing right by our healthcare partners and improving how healthcare is done. 

Technology

Check out our suite of high-tech solutions that perfectly complement our high-touch approach to a future-ready workforce. 

Strategic consultation

We’re experts in exactly one healthcare staffing solution: yours. Partner with our experts to build a workforce strategy tailored specifically to you. 

Physicians

See how our experts draw from the industry’s largest locums database to deliver customized solutions such as locum tenens, permanent placement, and telehealth.

Advanced practice

Get insights into how our team of APP-specific experts use in-house credentialing and licensing to deliver the right candidate to your facility.

Allied health

Learn more about the process we use to connect your organization with qualified therapists, technicians, technologists, assistants, and more.

Nurses

Find out what makes our nurse staffing truly stand out in the industry, and how we’re constantly looking for new ways to make the process smoother.

Telehealth

Tap into the nation’s largest network and deepest specialty bench of multi-state license providers to keep your virtual care strategies on track.

Blog

Visit our blog to get workforce insights, catch the latest company updates, and hear important stories from within the healthcare industry.

Resources

Get industry insights, workforce strategies, and more from our resource section. Each video, article, and tool has been created with your success in mind. 

Careers overview

Get the details on how a career at CHG fast-tracks your success and lets you play a role in helping 25 million patients receive care each year.

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Locations

Get all the details about our various locations nationwide. We have expanded our operations to better serve the needs of the healthcare community.

Benefits

Browse our benefit and wellness programs and learn how our team handpicks the best options to support you as a whole person.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Learn about the DEI goals we’re embracing to make our company¬–and healthcare industry at large–a better home for everyone.

Learning and development

See how our award-winning team of trainers can help you develop new skills and pursue the career path that makes you feel the most alive.

Employee stories

Check out stories from our people’s lives that highlight how CHG supports personal growth and helps you make a positive impact in the world.

Flexibility

Learn more about how our commitment to workplace flexibility puts you in the best position to be happy, comfortable, and effective.

Talent network

Visit our Talent network page to apply for a job, communicate with our talent acquisition team, or refer someone else for a job at CHG.

Recruiting process

Learn more about our hiring process and how we seek out the best opportunities for you to make an immediate impact.

Weathering difficult times with “Crucial Conversations”

In their book, “Crucial Conversations,” authors Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler explain that crucial conversations are important to have when opinions vary, stakes are high,  and emotions run strong.

It’s clear safe, empathetic, and actionable conversations are needed more than ever in today’s climate. In fact, many healthcare leaders are turning to these crucial conversations within their organizations to keep their workforce engaged and business results strong.

CHG’s learning and development manager, Quin Harward, partnered with AAPPR to discuss how healthcare leaders can use principles from “Crucial Conversations” during difficult times.

Determine how you respond under stress

According to the book, individuals might respond to tense conversations with silence or violence. Violence could mean shouting or somehow stifling the opposing views. Silence is taking an action to withhold information from a conversation. This might present itself as staying quiet or bottling up your thoughts. Both approaches come from feeling unsafe in the interaction and can cause the other person to also feel unsafe. In the end, conversations that include silence or violence responses aren’t productive.

“When people are at work, they’re far more apt to reserve themselves and not speak, especially when they’re dealing with people who have an assumed amount of power or authority or responsibility,” says Harward. “So, if they’re having a conversation with their director or manager or CEO, the chances of speaking up and trying to compel them may seem nonexistent.”

Leaning into difficult conversations and promoting a culture of transparency can help people feel safe to have more conversations in the long run. Use this resource to identify if you gravitate towards silent or violent responses.

Identify when you’re in a crucial conversation

Once you acknowledge how you react when the pressure’s on, help your discussions become constructive by asking three distinct questions:

  • What do I want for myself?
  • What do I want for the other person?
  • What do I want for the relationship or organization?

These questions can guide you to achieve what Harward says is the ultimate goals of crucial conversations – getting better results.

“In order to get the best results, we need as much information as possible,” he says. “When our motives are suspect, regardless of our intent, information is guarded and skewed. When we start with a clear intention, engage in respectful conversation where everyone has a chance to share openly and expectations are agreed upon, results improve.”

Build trust

It’s imperative to create a safe environment when engaging in a productive crucial conversation and the best way to ensure that is to build trust between the participants.

“If you don't have clear expectations to the next step, you're just setting yourself up for failure and all of your work and conversations go out the window,” says Harward. “This is where you can show that you trust them and that they can trust you and you can move forward together to create better results.”

Keeping your word will foster a trusting culture where employees feel safe and expect promises to be fulfilled.

Learn to separate facts from stories

“Facts are what is actually said or done, while stories are how we view those things,” says Harward. “We want to speak in facts and keep our stories to a minimum, which leads to our emotions being more in control and leading to both parties getting better results when we focus on those topics.”

As many healthcare facilities make hard decisions to stay afloat during the current recession, it’s important for leaders to use facts – not stories – to communicate why judgment calls like furloughs or budget cuts are made. By entering crucial conversations with only stories, you may elevate the stress and frustration for you and your people. By focusing on the facts, you will likely lead the conversation in a direction that is easily understood and even reduces the likelihood of your people creating their own stories for why you made your decisions.

Practice crucial conversations to build a stronger workplace

Having crucial conversations can be challenging, but with practice, you will find yourself having stronger and more productive conversations for both yourself and those around you. To find out more about these skills and how to use them watch the recordings of Harward’s two-part webinar series or order a copy of Crucial Conversations.

Let us know how we can support your facility’s staffing needs. Give us a call at 866.588.5996 or email ecs.contact@chghealthcare.com.

About the author

Adia Thornton

Adia Thornton is a marketing coordinator for CHG Healthcare. She loves to use her background in psychology to understand the customer needs. In her spare time, she enjoys curling up with a good book.

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