How Deep Are You?
Your Non-Lame Pharmacy Succession Plan
On paper and out of your head. That’s the simplest way of icing the concerns that we rehearse in our heads about our pharmacy hiring challenges and long-term staffing problems.
What is there was a one-pager that once drafted, would cure the rehearsal of negative thoughts you have about hiring and developing the right people in your pharmacy today (and tomorrow)?
There is one. Every professional hockey team has one. It’s called a depth chart and serves as a map of your future pharmacy workforce. It is a succession plan of where people can take you and a well-designed one allows for seamless interruption of patient care along decades of people and profession-induced change. In hockey, a depth chart gives coaches a summary of who they have in their line-up, from their top players, down to their future prospects. The deeper they are, the longer the gradient of talent on the team, the more confident and capable they are in navigating the future. Essentially, it allows them to constantly deploy a winning team of the course of a long season.
Here is an easy way to draft your pharmacy depth chart, allowing you to sketch out what you have, what you don’t and what you need to find.
