Your Career is a Journey
Plan Ahead and Manage Effectively From my experience working with executives over the past 27 years I have learned a great deal about how executives tend to do a poor job in managing and planning for advancing their own career. Before I share my observations with you...
The Nursing Leadership Challenge
Everyone recognizes nursing plays a huge and vital role in our hospitals and healthcare systems today. Nursing, like any other area of healthcare, needs experienced coaches and mentors. Please remember the optimum word here is experienced. Here are some of my...
Executive Skill: Reading the Tea Leaves
How often in my conversation with executives do I hear the statement, “he/she is good at reading the tea leaves” or “he/she is not so good at reading the tea leaves”? What does it mean? To me, it indicates a sense of external awareness of...
“Manage Up” for Success
A big piece of onboarding is the ability to manage up- how you effectively work with your immediate Manager. My experience in this area indicates that we don’t give this enough attention. The conflict that begins here usually ends up in one being asked to leave...About Author
Jim Wiederhold
Jim believes his 39 years of experience--particularly his more than 26 years in healthcare--has prepared him well for what he does. His wealth of experience spans key areas, including finance, operations, management, leadership, sales and sales management, corporate, contingency, contractual and retained recruiting, outplacement and transition work and executive coaching.