GForce Streamlines Purchasing for Surgery Partners

GForce has been working with the Surgery Partners team to design and implement Requisition Self-Service and Punchout in their current environment. GForce has also helped Surgery Partners clean up and organize their Item and Vendor Master in their Lawson ERP system in order to ensure accurate purchasing. This cleanup has allowed Surgery Partners to implement a better EDI solution into their workflow and allowed them to integrate their purchasing with a GPO solution. We are excited to help them streamline their purchasing process!

Surgery Partners, Inc is a leading operator of surgical facilities and ancillary services with more than 180 locations stretching nationwide from Alaska to our home state of Georgia. They provide exceptional integrated healthcare experiences between providers and patients.

GForce is proud to work with them!

Death of the Whiteboard

As the world continues to move toward remote work as the norm, the collaboration continues to decrease. Workers and teams are increasingly separated by location, by screens, and even by time zone.

Another consequence is the death of collaboration with a whiteboard. Working through challenges and problems to come up with a solution can be messy and time-consuming. Teams sometimes just need to come together and work it out visually by writing and drawing things out on a shared canvas.

This is incredibly challenging when everyone is behind a screen where it is hard to bounce ideas off one another. The value of everyone being in the same place, working on the same whiteboard, seeing each other's body language, and working things out together... the value is unmatched.

This tip of the month is about encouraging you and your organization to embrace whiteboard and team canvas work. Keep it a part of your daily work processes and allow the natural flow on in-person problem solving to lead your team to great decisions. It is incredibly valuable for GForce and will be incredibly valuable for you!

Organization Means Differences

Thoughts on Organization and Differences in the Workforce

You probably hear this too often from your employer, your boss, or your mother, “stay organized.” For me, that last one is especially true.

But, as any working person knows, organization is crucially important to one’s success. Being organized allows for efficiency, it allows for progression in one’s work and workday, and gives people the opportunity to structure many tasks that could easily overwhelm someone.

With that said, I have been at GForce for several months at this point, and although organization is so important to success and taken as gospel for many professionals; organization means and is practice differently to every single person. In short, being organized has just as many methods of being accomplished as there are people in this world.

And, hint-hint, THAT IS A GOOD THING!

Since starting my career, I quickly learned a valuable lesson. Each teammate and individual that have worked with or alongside of has their own unique method of accomplishing their tasks. On top of that, what organization means to one person does not look the same to another person.

This realization dawned on me at about 3 PM on my first day on the job at GForce, when my colleagues were organizing their day much differently than I had at my previous job. Instinctually, my mind jumped to all the differences in how they operated compared to me (and how MY WAY made much more sense). But, I had to take a step back. My colleagues had been thriving in their careers and in their fields for years and sometimes decades. I thought, maybe I should observe and learn from their organizational methods. And I did.

For the next several months, I watched and learned from my colleagues and saw how they structured and operated their days. I incorporated many of their methods and tried and failed with others. In the end, I learned and built organizational skills that worked for me while giving organizational advice to others. Recently, one of my colleagues said to me “we learn from each other, everyday.” That is undoubtedly true at GForce and I am so glad it is.

Overall, the main lesson I have taken from this time is that everyone is organized and operationalizes differently. And in a company, that is a strength, not a weakness. Rigidness and similarity, although valuable at times, is not always the most important point for organizational success. Luckily at GForce, our leadership team truly values each worker and their methods to achieve organization and success. That flexibility has allowed myself to be successful, and I think has benefitted GForce and our customers.