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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...
Do You Know Your Numbers?
Do you know your numbers? (not just finance) “It’s a nice day outside.” Does this mean it’s 65 degrees, 75, 82? It depends on who you ask. Unless you ascribe a numerical measure to something it will never be fully clear to an audience. So many executives I advise are...
Elements of a Successful Turnaround Strategy
Hospitals/Health systems across the country are faced with increasing financial pressure including slow economic recovery, decreases in reimbursement, increases in uninsured or underinsured leading to increased bad debt write offs, and increased operating expenses....
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 what's being said around you....
What’s your value proposition?
Why should an organization hire you? What do you bring to the table that helps the organization win? What are you known for? If you aren’t communicating these answers briefly and succinctly (backed with facts), you are not standing out and will have a tougher time...
“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 the...
Enhanced Leadership Tools to Light the Way
Coaching comes in many forms but the goal is to help you become the very best version of yourself as a leader, executive, and whole person. As you know, I have been coaching executives for years to help them become their best. Through the power of technology, my...
Present Yourself Powerfully
To execute well in a network meeting or an interview, you must present yourself in a powerful way. As most of you are aware, the elevator speech has long been utilized as a tool in this area. This presentation focuses on who you are, what you've accomplished and where...
10 Steps to Ace Your Next Interview
As one wise recruiter once told me, "You can have a B resume which may open the door but you must have an A interview to walk through it." Let me share ten basic elements that consistently come up in our interview reviews that if addressed would make a world of...
Landing Your Biggest Sale, Yourself!
Landing Your Biggest Sale, Yourself! Facilitating a successful job transition and search is a complex and intensive process. I have found most healthcare executives are trained and focused in their healthcare leadership roles, but are not experienced nor educated on...
Keys to Your Successful 2016
First and foremost, I want to wish you much success in 2016. The new year is a time to start new journeys. As you know there are journeys we choose and journeys that choose us. So with that in mind, we took a real good look at the people we work with in career...
The Power of Gratitude
I constantly hear the statement that nothing happens between Thanksgiving and New Year's day. That idea becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that can prevent you from moving forward in the new year. The time between Thanksgiving and New Year's day is what I referred to...
Leadership Made Simple but NOT Easy – Achieving Cultural Transformation in Healthcare
HIGHLIGHTS SHARED AT THE TELEMED IQ SUMMIT 2019, NASHVILLE, TN Attaining most any goal or dream requires us to do something different, which goes against the natural human tendency to stay in our comfort zone. Transformation has to start with change, but we resist...
Bridge the Gap for Career Success
Twenty-seven years in this business and I'm still amazed at what people will say or do. The sad situation is that many times, these unintentional faux pas are the things that result in slowing down or ending a promising career. We all need to take communication...
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