You’ve Been Training for This For the last few weeks, I’ve been having a similar conversation with leaders—the same conversation I’m having with myself. We’re forgetting what we’ve already been through. Why We Can’t See What We Know...
Jump-Start Your Succession Plan: Create an Emergency Management Plan Are you having trouble figuring out your succession plan? You’re not alone. Most leaders I work with get stuck in the same spiral of questions: Who will replace me? Who will replace them? Do we...
Clinical staff undergo years of intensive training to master technical procedures, understand complex diagnostics, and deliver life-saving care. However, while medical schools and nursing programs excel at teaching the hard science of healthcare, the “soft...
Retiring without retreating Did you know that retirement doesn’t have to mean retreat? If you want your retirement to be a retreat — a time to relax, travel, and enjoy the fruits of decades of hard work — that’s wonderful. You’ve earned it. But...
My new “The Pocket COO” AI tool is still being tested. I’d love for you to try it today. This chat tool is informed by all my leadership writing, blogs, books, and trainings. There are three different approaches to answers: 👉 I’m looking for...
In my conversations with private coaching clients, when I say “you’ll need to follow up up to 12 times,” I often see dismay on people’s faces. 12 times?! Some intrepid clients then ask for the exact steps, the precise formula for those 12...
As a leader, you have so much coming at you. Demands. Obligations. Emergencies. It’s easy to fall into an “answer every question” mode – like you’re playing a game of Whack-A-Mole. (No offense to moles.) Did you realize your answers may...
As a leader, it’s easy to think you need to have all the answers. After all, people are asking you lots of questions. They’re looking to you for guidance and direction. And for most of your formative years – grade school, high school, college, early...
Ever feel like a magnet is pulling you through life—and you’re not sure who chose it? I was talking with a client recently who described her week as “being dragged from meeting to meeting.” She wasn’t choosing her days. She was reacting to...
Originally published in my Follow Up Friday newsletter – a weekly reflection on leadership, relationships, and living with intention. I’m writing this while preparing for my dad’s celebration of life service. His was one of the three unexpected...
