September 14th, 2021
Your Internal Monologue can Sabotage your Leadership
Millions of messages play in your head all day, every day without the slightest awareness. Although they may seem innocuous, these mental nudges subtly shape your beliefs and drive both your emotions and actions. ...
September 7th, 2021
Grip Hearts and Engage Minds through Storytelling
When my father was dying, I sat by his bedside, holding his hand. Someone, I think it was my sister, told me I should go home and get some sleep. She said dad didn’t ...
August 31st, 2021
Leading Through Upheaval: Get Vulnerable
Healthcare has been in a constant state of change to the point of upheaval for months on end, putting even the most resilient and courageous to the test. Workers and their leaders are exhausted, discouraged, and ...
August 24th, 2021
With Nursing Shortages, How are You Ensuring Retention?
For years, healthcare leaders have been concerned about a nursing shortage, but COVID has brought the deficit to critical levels. In a recent article in the New York Times, author Andrew Jacobs sheds ...
August 19th, 2021
3 Questions to Ask Before Assuming Bad Attitude
I was coaching a new manager who said she was getting really frustrated with the bad attitudes of her team. She wanted them to deliver better customer service and felt they were being ...
August 12th, 2021
Accountability Strengthens the Culture
A culture of accountability doesn’t just happen. It takes persistence well after you state your expectations.
Parenting would be easy if you could tell your kids once, and only once, to do something and know for certain it ...
August 5th, 2021
Accountability is Not Micromanaging
Nobody likes a micromanager, someone who hovers wanting to know every detail of what you do. But don’t confuse micromanaging with holding people accountable. The two are miles apart in how they affect the employees and culture.
Holding people ...
July 29th, 2021
Feedback Isn’t Positive or Negative
Have you ever noticed that people tend to preface the word feedback with a qualifier such as positive or negative? The truth is feedback isn’t positive or negative. It’s feedback. Period.
The dictionary defines feedback as: information ...
July 27th, 2021
Effective Feedback is a Two-Way Street
Over the course of my career, I’ve been on both the sending and receiving sides of feedback. I’ve come to know that continuous improvement requires that you be able to do both well.
Training, preparation, and ...
July 15th, 2021
Create a Well Founded Service Recovery Culture - 3 Essentials for Success
Written By: Kristin Baird, RN, BSN, MHA
It takes more than smile lessons and a pocket full of gift cards to create a well-founded service recovery culture. There are three ...