Dear Colleague,
As we wrap up the Everyone Leading Safety skill in the Advanced Team Collaboration program this week, it’s a great time to reflect on what we’ve learned together.
Over the past several weeks, we’ve explored how each team member can help build a stronger culture of safety by leading through their actions, modeling safe behaviors, supporting teammates and working together to solve challenges. These tips reinforce an important message: creating a safe environment depends on every member of the team, regardless of role or job title.
This week’s tip
Everyone Leading Safety Tip #5: Learning Safety Across Teams
The best teams are always learning. Taking time to share experiences, discussing what worked well and learning from challenges helps everyone grow while strengthening the care we provide.
This week’s tip highlights several ways teams can continue learning together:
- Learn from previous successes and missteps by talking openly about experiences and what they teach us.
- Advance safety together by sharing knowledge and supporting one another’s growth.
- Help foster a culture of curiosity and continuous learning where questions and new ideas from your teammates are welcomed.
When team members learn from one another, everyone becomes better equipped to recognize risks, improve processes and contribute to a safer workplace.
Call to action:
With your team, take time during a meeting to discuss how you’re growing your safety skills together. How are you sharing knowledge and learning from one another? What can your team do to continue building a culture of safety?
As you complete this skill, remember that every meeting or huddle, every helping hand and every opportunity to learn together strengthens our culture of safety. Thank you for investing in your growth through B Excellent and for helping create an environment where teammates support one another and patients receive the safest, highest-quality care possible.
Wrapping up the Everyone Leading Safety skill
After you complete this week’s tip, you should now see 100% completion of the Everyone Leading Safety skill in your progress tab. You should also see your Overall Progress in the Advanced Team Collaboration program reach 67%.
Take a moment to review your progress and ensure you’re current with the program. Staying up to date with each week’s content helps you get the most from the Learn, Try, Share experience, reinforces the skills you’ve already learned, and prepares you for the next phase of your Advanced Team Collaboration journey.
Team Member Impact Spotlight
This week’s featured comment comes from Ronna Ventro, certified/registered medical assistant at the BHMA CVA Outpatient Clinic in Johnson City, on the Raising Teamwork for Safety tip.
Ronna shared that supporting her teammates helps make the workload more manageable while ensuring patients receive the best possible care. She described how trust, open communication and mutual respect have strengthened her team’s relationships and contributed to the quality of their work. Her experience is a great reminder that caring for one another goes hand-in-hand with caring for our patients.
We encourage all team members to continue leaving comments on the Practicing Excellence platform. Your stories and examples help bring these lessons to life and provide practical ideas that others can apply in their own work. This is also a great opportunity to learn from one another and discover new ways to integrate B Excellent into our everyday work. By sharing experiences, successes, and lessons learned, we can strengthen our commitment to these behaviors and support one another in providing the best possible care to those we serve.
