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TGG for Healthcare Organizations

Your Best Clinicians
Are Leaving.
Not Because
of the Work.

Your unit is technically excellent. People are also burning out, walking out, and silently disengaging. That is not a clinical competence problem. It is a communication and emotional intelligence problem. And it is exactly the problem TGG was built to solve.

"I think we all recognize how profoundly these skills influence physician effectiveness, team dynamics, patient engagement, and ultimately quality of care. I would have regretted not connecting you with our leadership after seeing the impact of this work firsthand."

Dr. Frank Lodeserto, MD
Cape Fear Valley Health System | Fayetteville, NC
64%
Reduction in safety incidents related to communication failure when EI gaps are addressed
JCAHO Communication Data
30%
Average reduction in nursing turnover in organizations that embed structured EI development programs
AHRQ Workforce Research
23%
Performance advantage linked to higher EI in collaborative and leadership-facing roles
EQ Consortium / MHS
85%
D1 athlete graduation rate, driven entirely by structured emotional and relational support, not talent alone
NCAA GSR, 2024
What Happens in the Hallway Before Rounds

The Team That Finds TGG
Is Looking for This.

Right Now

It is 6:45 in the morning. Your charge nurse and your attending physician have not spoken civilly in four months. The tension follows every handoff. It shows up in the pause before someone speaks in rounds. Your best travel nurse mentioned it in her exit interview. You have tried everything HR gave you. None of it touches what is actually happening.

The Bridge

TGG comes into that environment not with a workshop and a workbook, but with a clinical instrument that shows every member of that team exactly how they are wired under pressure, what they need from the people around them, and why the silence in that hallway is not about personality. It is about unmet communication needs that have never been named.

The Data

Healthcare organizations that address EI gaps see a 64% reduction in safety incidents related to communication failure. The cost of one preventable adverse event exceeds the entire cost of a year-long TGG partnership. Communication failure is the leading contributing factor in over 70% of reported sentinel events.

Six Months From Now

Six months from now, those morning rounds have a different energy. Not because the problems are gone. Because the team now has a common language for working through them. The attending still pushes hard. The charge nurse still holds the floor together. But they know how each other is wired. They know when to approach and when to give space. The patients feel it. The nurses feel it. The exit interviews stop mentioning the tension.

The Reality of Healthcare Leadership

The Unit That
Communicates Well
Delivers Better Care.

The healthcare teams that perform at the highest level are not the ones with the most certifications. They are the ones who have the shared language to work through the hard moments in real time, under pressure, without losing trust.

Your people already have the clinical competence. TGG gives them the relational and emotional tools to use it at its full potential, together.

You are losing nurses you cannot afford to loseBurnout is not a workload problem. It is an emotional regulation and relational support problem. TGG identifies who is at risk and builds the skills that make staying possible.
You have two leaders who cannot be in the same roomEvery high-performing organization has at least one version of this. Communication Mapping turns the behavioral data that explains the conflict into a shared language that resolves it.
Your handoffs are technically correct and emotionally brokenThe protocol is followed. The trust is not there. The silence in the hallway is not about the chart. TGG names what is actually happening and builds the tools to change it.
Healthcare team in collaborative meeting
The TGG Process

Three Steps. One Transformed Team.

01

Clinical Assessment

Every leader and team member completes the validated Emotional Intelligence Assessment and the Communication Mapping profile. 133 items. 15 subscales. Decades of peer-reviewed validation. This is the clinical baseline that makes everything that follows actionable, not opinionated.

02

Individual Debrief

Dr. Thurman delivers a private 45-minute clinical debrief for each participant. Not a generic feedback session. A precise, data-grounded conversation about exactly how each person is wired, what they need from their team, and where the highest-leverage growth opportunities live.

03

Team Integration

The individual profiles are brought into a shared team session that builds a common language for communication and conflict. This is where the hallway changes. Where the shift in morning rounds happens. Where the exit interview conversations stop.

From a Healthcare Leader

"A year from now, your team has a common language for the things that used to tear it apart. Your best people are still there. Your leaders are more effective and less exhausted. Your patients experience the difference even if they cannot name it. That is what a TGG partnership produces."

Healthcare Leader, TGG Partnership Client
Southeast Region

Your Team Deserves
a Common Language.

A 20-minute briefing is enough to know whether TGG is the right fit. We will walk through what a partnership looks like for your specific organizational context.

Healthcare Client Voices

More Voices From the Field.

"I definitely have a deeper understanding of my personality and of my coworkers!"

Susan Kremposky
Physical Therapist Assistant | Revolution USA

"I was less aware of team members communication styles; however, after the team building workshop I am equipped with tools to enhance communication with co-workers."

Dr. Kris
Healthcare Leadership Influencer