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#229: Encore Episode: From Workplace Drama to Workforce Empowerment with David Emerald
In this episode, we talk with our special guest David Emerald about his powerful frameworks, self-leadership, and transforming organizations.
David Emerald is a co-founder of the Bainbridge Leadership Center (Bainbridge Island, WA). He is the author of The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic), a teaching story about Self Leadership, and has recently published his second book called 3 Vital Questions: Transforming Workplace Drama, a teaching story about workplace drama and its heavy costs to organizations.
David shares the different elements of the Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT)™, including the three roles—Victim, Rescuer, and Persecutor and The Empowerment Dynamic (TED), which provides an antidote to the toxic roles of the DDT.
We also talk about the 3 Vital Questions that have helped countless individuals and teams engage in productive and powerful interaction to achieve desired outcomes.
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November 29, 2023
#228: Encore Episode: How to Support Leaders in Creating and Developing Sustainable Results Through VUCA Tools with Dr. Ann Deaton
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Ann Deaton about supporting leaders in creating and developing sustainable results through VUCA tools.
Ann is a leadership and team coach. She is the author of the book, VUCA Tools for a VUCA World: Developing Leaders and Teams for Sustainable Results.
During her two-decade career in healthcare, she held supervisory and leadership roles in several healthcare and rehabilitation systems, where she had the opportunity to experience both the suffering that comes with unacknowledged paradox and the success that accompanies consciously assessing both/and thinking.
Ann discusses VUCA Tools and how it influences companies and support leaders to thrive during these challenging times.
We also talk about some common polarities that many leaders and organizations are grappling with today.
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November 22, 2023
#227: Encore Episode: How to use Polarity Intelligence™ to Invite Differing Perspectives and Create Team Psychological Safety
In this episode, we explore how Polarity Intelligence™ supports Team Psychological Safety.
We discuss how to invite the voices of those with differing perspectives and look for any interdependencies of those perspectives. We also talk about advocacy and the role it plays in creating an environment of inclusion.
As we close the episode, we share the risks and benefits leaders face when they do or don’t use Polarity Intelligence™ to create an environment of Team Psychological Safety.
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November 15, 2023
#226: Encore Episode: The Importance of Creating Margin for Leaders
In this episode, we talk about creating a margin in your life and why it’s important for Thriving, Resilient and Unstoppable (TRU) leaders.
We know leaders continue to experience numerous Covid surges, staffing shortages, increasing demands on their work, and other challenges that have kept the work intensity high that causes fatigue leading to exhaustion and burnout.
In fact, most healthcare leaders continue to experience pain from the stress and work overload they deal with every day and trying to balance everything on their plates.
In this podcast, we introduce the concept of “margin” in four areas in our lives to achieve balance and some of the underlying polarities.
We also talk about some tips on creating margin in your life and some of the negative consequences of not having margin in your life.
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November 8, 2023
#225: Encore Episode: Reduce Negative Tension in Your Life and Leverage the Predictability of Polarities
Tension exists in all aspects of our life. Many of the tensions we experience are perpetual, in other words, they never go away.
When the tension isn’t managed or leveraged, it can feel heavy or negative. You may or may not already be realizing, if the tension isn’t going away, your best chance for a positive outcome is to learn to manage or leverage the tension.
In this podcast, we have fun combining two of our passions (Polarity Intelligence™ and the game of golf) to show you how to leverage chronic tensions.
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November 1, 2023
#224: Encore Episode: How to Become the CEO of your Life
Today’s episode is all about “How to become the CEO of your life”.
We believe that if you're not taking full responsibility for your life and you're blaming circumstances and making an excuse not to do the things that serve your purpose, then you're not the CEO of your life.
Maybe you have a limiting belief that you don't have a choice, or you’re not in control of your own life.
But if you're the CEO of your life, you can give yourself the agency to realign your purpose, you have the choice to take control and create empowering beliefs for better outcomes of your life.
In this podcast, we talk about how every leader has the agency to be the CEO of their own life.
We also discuss three characteristics of being a CEO and what it takes to live those characteristics and own your life.
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October 25, 2023
#223: Encore Episode: Is Problem Solving the Most Valuable Skill a Leader Can Have?
One of the core characteristics of a strong leader is they are an excellent problem solver. As clinicians, you are also trained to solve problems for the patients/clients you serve.
But what we’ve come to learn is not all problems are solvable, and problem-solving skills don’t work on all the challenges that leaders face.
So, then what do you do? Today, we are going to tell you what you do. We are going to talk about an essential competency every leader must have to overcome unsolvable problems and achieve sustainable outcomes.
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October 18, 2023
#222: Encore Episode: How to Create a Vision for Your Professional and Personal Life
Do you have a vision for your life personally and professionally? In the work we do with leaders we often find they don’t have a clear vision for their life.
Without a clear vision it’s difficult to feel personally aligned, to make mindful choices, or to know what actions to take.
As Yogi Berra says, “You got to be careful, if you don’t know where you are going, ‘cause you might not get there”. You end up feeling frustrated, full of regret, and wondering “how did I get here?”
In today’s episode, we are sharing with you how to create a clear vision for your personal and professional life, so you can be a TRU (Thriving, Resilient, Unstoppable) leader.
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October 11, 2023
#221: Encore Episode: TRU Series Polarity Intelligence™
In this episode, we focus on leveraging Polarity Intelligence™, which is Pillar #2 of our Dynamic Balance EffectTM (DBE) Framework.
Polarity Intelligence applies the “missinglogic” to leverage the unavoidable tensions and challenges impacting your daily life.
The thing is, most leaders feel these tensions are problems to solve because it’s the only lens they’ve ever known. If you treat them as problems and you don’t realize that you’re experiencing unmanaged polarities, you will realize your greatest fears and end up failing.
In this podcast, we talk about the numerous tensions that act on you and how to identify and leverage them to establish a balanced life.
We also talk about four crux personal polarities and their early warning signs, and negative outcomes if you over-focus on one over the other.
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October 4, 2023
#220: Encore Episode: Attention Leaders! Busy is a Badge of Burnout
How many times do you say, “I’m fine, I’m just really busy” when people ask you how you are?
Being busy becomes a status symbol as a leader. In fact, the more you can do, the more you’re asked to do, and the more you feel you’re bringing value to your team and your organization.
In this podcast episode, we talk about why being busy is a badge of burnout, not honor. We also discuss the importance of setting boundaries for leaders and some warning signs of wearing a badge of burnout.
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September 27, 2023
#219: Encore Episode: Calling all Leaders! Work-Life Balance is Possible
You've probably heard that work-life balance doesn't exist.
Or maybe you've tried to balance your personal and professional life, especially during these challenging times, but you feel like it's impossible to achieve.
As leaders, we're taught to look at challenges and issues as problems to solve and we think that problem-solving is the logic we apply to all challenges we face.
Are we right?
The thing is, not every problem is solvable, and if you can't recognize that the challenge isn't a problem to solve, then you're going to fail over time.
In this episode, we reveal that Work-Life Balance is possible and why you can achieve it as a leader.
We also discuss why some problems are not solvable, what a polarity is, how they work, and how you can take a different approach to manage them.
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September 20, 2023
#218: The MissingLogic® Journey Beyond Healthcare
One of the common questions we frequently get asked when speaking to other leaders is whether we will be doing work outside of healthcare.
And guess what? We're absolutely thrilled to announce that we’re expanding our reach beyond healthcare leaders.
With over 20 years of experience working with healthcare leaders and different organizations, we always knew that what we have been doing was applicable to all leaders.
Therefore, we believe it's time to expand our reach and work with all leaders in all industries.
In this podcast episode, we share some incredibly exciting changes that are taking place at MissingLogic and some up-leveling to the podcast that you're not going to want to miss!
We also talk about why we started our podcast with healthcare leaders and why we are running some stellar encore episodes for the next several weeks on our podcast.
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September 13, 2023
#217: Being in the Flow State as a Leader
Have you ever experienced a moment when you are deeply immersed in whatever you are doing, focused with extreme clarity and creativity, and felt incredible joy and fulfillment? That's being in the flow state, and we're going to explore it today.
You may or may not know being in the flow state doesn't occur during our easiest or most relaxed moments, but usually when we are stretched to the limit with a task associated with something we enjoy and are good at.
In this podcast episode, we talk about being in the flow, how you can leverage it, and why maximizing your impact as a leader is important.
We also talk about the benefits of being in a flow state and some recommendations to create opportunities to be in the flow state as a leader.
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September 6, 2023
#216: Applying Polarity Intelligence™: The Journey towards a New Leadership Competency with Cory McCann and Kelly Martin
In this podcast episode, we talk with our special guests, Cory McCann and Kelly Martin, who share their journey toward the new leadership competency of Polarity Intelligence™.
Cory serves as the Assistant Vice President for Leadership Development for Intermountain Health. As a certified PACT™ Practitioner, she leverages Polarity Thinking™ to coach teams to supplement problem-solving with a "Both/And" approach to achieve sustainable results over time.
Kelly is a current leader at Intermountain Health, where she is a director of hospital care management over five hospitals in the greater Salt Lake City area.
In this podcast, Cory and Kelly share their personal experiences with Polarity Intelligence and the impact it has had on their personal and professional lives. We also talk about their greatest hope for having Polarity Intelligence as a norm for healthcare leaders and organizations.
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August 30, 2023
#215: Improving Leadership Teams through Improv featuring Dr. Candy Campbell
In this podcast episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Candy Campbell about improving leadership teams through improv.
Candy is an award-winning actor, filmmaker, nurse, and the author of the book “Improv to Improve Your Leadership Team: Tear Down Walls and Build Bridges.”
She co-founded an improv and stand-up comedy company in the San Francisco area in the early ’90s, which was the impetus to launch three solo shows, a doctorate degree, a documentary film, and six books.
In this podcast, Candy shares how improv can play a crucial role in our work and how these principles can help teams create positive results in the workplace.
We also talk about the role of improv in creating “transformational relationships” and some of her recommendations for several leaders who work in dyad teams.
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August 23, 2023
#214: Micro-stressors and their Impact on Well-Being and Performance
In this podcast, we talk about micro-stressors and how they impact your well-being and performance as a leader.
We've been seeing increasing levels of stress, overwhelm, and uncertainty around how to lead during these challenging times. Therefore, now is timely to explore micro-stressors in leadership.
You may or may not know we are facing not just one or two micro-stressors every day but dozens a day just trying to survive. In fact, micro-stressors go undetected most of the time, and it's hard to battle them head-on.
In this podcast, we talk about the different sources of micro-stressors and some recommendations to combat them. We also talk about some examples of the ripple effect of micro-stressors and the negative consequences if you don't increase your awareness of them.
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August 16, 2023
#213: IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice: A 2023 Update with Dr. Tony Breitbach and Dr. Katie Eliot
In this podcast episode, we talk with our special guests, Dr. Tony Breitbach and Dr. Katie Eliot, who share an update on the 2023 IPEC Interprofessional Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice where they both serve on workgroups for updating the competencies.
Tony is a Professor, Certified Athletic Trainer, and Vice Dean at the Doisy College of Health Sciences at St. Louis University. He serves on the Executive Committee of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) and helps lead Communication working groups for Interprofessional.
Katie is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Her primary teaching and scholarship focus on interprofessional education and collaborative practice.
In this episode, Tony and Katie share the latest updates on their interprofessional partnership with BE-Collaborative and the work they have been doing together.
We talk about the overall intention behind 2023 revisions to the IPEC core competencies, how they are involved with the process, and some of the comments on the overall core competency statements.
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August 9, 2023
#212: Breaking the Myths about Work-Life Integration
In this podcast episode, we’re going to break some myths about the concept of work-life integration and how work-life balance is possible with a polarity mindset and a strategy.
There are some false assumptions that achieving work-life balance is not possible, and work-life integration is the best option for finding a way out of burnout into a more balanced life.
While both of these approaches are trying to get the same outcome, people don’t realize it isn’t a problem to solve but a polarity to manage.
In this episode, we talk about the false beliefs in work-life balance, how it leads you to false choices, and the two main factors that influence work-life balance.
We also talk about the importance of knowing your ‘why’ in creating work-life balance and some positive outcomes when looking at your professional and personal life.
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August 2, 2023
#211: Leveraging a Polarity Mindset to Address Incivility and Bullying in Healthcare ft. Drs. Luanne and Scott Shaw
In this podcast, we talk with our special guests, Dr. Luanne and Dr. Scott Shaw, who share how a polarity mindset can help minimize bullying and create healthier work environments. The Shaw’s are our first married couple as guests on our podcast and share their mutual passion of applying a polarity mindset to work environment challenges.
Luanne earned her Doctorate of Nursing Practice with an emphasis on health systems leadership from Grand Valley State University.
Scott is a Professor of Human Services at Grace Christian University. Scott was a clinical supervisor & therapist at Lutheran Child & Family Service of Michigan from 2000 to 2010.
In this podcast, Luanne and Scott share the importance of having a polarity mindset for leaders and how this intelligence can bring hope to our work environments.
We also talk about some of their motivations to look at bullying with a polarity thinking lens, their experiences with polarities, and how they applied them in their works.
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July 26, 2023
#210: The Power of Friendship at Work
Did you know that a significant amount of our time and life is spent at work? In fact, more people are working remotely or in hybrid positions, which becomes more challenging to establish relationships with others.
We know healthy relationships are the cornerstone of a healthy work culture and the foundation for meaningful conversations and moving through challenging times.
When we don’t prioritize building and nurturing relationships in the workplace, it can lead to negative consequences such as low productivity, decreased retention, and employee dissatisfaction.
In this podcast, we talk about the power of friendship at work and how establishing healthy relationships can positively impact individuals and organizations.
We also talk about the different principles of healthy relationships and other ways to support different types of relationships at individual and organizational levels.
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July 19, 2023
#209: Changing the Perception and Narrative Surrounding Mental Health and Suicide ft. Vonnie Woodrick
In this podcast, we talk with our special guest Vonnie Woodrick who shares her passion for changing the perception and narrative surrounding mental health and suicide.
Vonnie is a compassionate and enthusiastic social change agent. Her founding of the nonprofit organization 'i understand' exemplifies her determination to change the stigma surrounding mental or brain health, illness, and loss to suicide.
She's the author of the book, 'i understand pain, love, and healing after suicide,' which is currently in 52 units of the Michigan Sheriffs' Department Victim Advocates Unit. This book is a resource for families who have lost a loved one to suicide.
In this episode, Vonnie talks about the petition to update the definition of suicide from intentionally taking one’s life to recognizing it as a terminal side effect of mental illness.
We also talk about her experience working with healthcare providers in education and mental health support and how her journey led to hope and understanding.
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July 12, 2023
#208: Leadership Challenges in the Healthcare Environment Today
In this podcast, we talk about leaders' top challenges in the healthcare environment today and explore some recommendations to address them.
You may or may not know some of the challenges in healthcare stay the same, and they never seem to go away. In fact, some of them are new or have been exacerbated due to the current realities.
We know a bit because we talk and work with healthcare leaders every day, and we have identified some top challenges today that leaders are dealing with.
That's why we can certainly relate because we experienced these years ago in our organization and in other organizations we supported, and they are still showing up in organizations across the country.
In this podcast, we talk about why some challenges repeatedly show up in healthcare and some of the negative consequences when we fail to address them.
We also discuss why it's essential to identify the interdependent pair of polarities and some suggestions to help leverage and manage personal and professional polarities.
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July 5, 2023
#207: Leadership Development for Emerging Polarity Intelligent™ Healthcare Leaders ft. Michelle Pena and Kris Pohlmann
In this podcast, we talk with our special guests, Michelle Pena and Kris Pohlmann, from Trinity Health Grand Rapids, who share their long-term journey with MissingLogic to grow Polarity Intelligent™ leaders within their healthcare organization.
Michelle is an accomplished executive nurse leader with extensive experience in healthcare operations and strategy. She currently serves as the Chief Nursing Officer for Trinity Health Grand Rapids and Trinity Health Medical Group Grand Rapids.
Kris is the Administrative Clinical Services Director for Trinity Health Grand Rapids, who specializes in clinical services for the geriatric population and orthopedic services.
In this podcast, Michelle and Kris talk about leadership development for emerging Polarity Intelligent leaders and some of their journeys with MissingLogic and Trinity Health Grand Rapids.
We also talk about their insights to have a partnering relationship with each other to achieve a greater purpose of growing a thriving and resilient team. They also share what makes them excited about supporting and investing in new emerging leaders to develop a core competency in Polarity Intelligence™.
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June 28, 2023
#206: The Emerging Polarity Intelligent™ Healthcare Leader
We know that there are many challenges in healthcare today, and new ones have emerged related to the post-pandemic era, such as massive change hangovers, financial challenges, and new generations with different perspectives and expectations.
Therefore, we need a new type of leader with new intelligence and the skills to navigate today’s current realities. One that can see the complexities and challenges in a new way, put effective and sustainable strategies in place, and engage with others to create healthy healing work environments where people and organizations can thrive.
In this podcast, we talk about emerging Polarity Intelligent healthcare leaders and some of the major tensions these leaders are dealing with in today’s work environment.
We also talk about why it’s essential to set an intentional course to develop Polarity Intelligentleaders and some of the negative consequences if you don't embody Polarity Intelligence™.
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June 21, 2023
#205: Addressing Bullying and Incivility in Healthcare featuring Renee Thompson
In this podcast, we talk with our special guest Dr. Renee Thompson about the importance of addressing bullying and incivility in healthcare.
Renee is a sought-after speaker, author, consultant, and leading authority on creating healthy workforces by eliminating bullying and incivility.
She is also the CEO and founder of the Healthy Workforce Institute and has been repeatedly published, interviewed, and awarded for her work to eradicate disruptive behaviors in healthcare.
In this podcast, we talk about different ways to recognize nurse bullying, the differences between bullying and incivility, and some reasons why we can’t seem to dissipate these disruptive behaviors in healthcare.
We also talk about some of the accreditation organizations addressing bullying and disruptive behaviors in healthcare and her advice on the behaviors you should look out for among your staff as well as key confronting strategies.
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June 14, 2023
#204: Creating a Better Healthcare Culture through Improv featuring Cory Jenks
In this podcast, we talk with our special guest Cory Jenks about creating a better healthcare culture through improv.
Cory earned his doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of South Carolina in 2011. Since then, he has practiced as a retail pharmacist, outpatient clinical pharmacist, and inpatient clinical pharmacist.
He currently practices as an Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, where he applies his passion for lifestyle interventions in the management of chronic disease.
He is also an accomplished improv comedian, having started his comedy journey in 2013, where he coached, taught, and performed improv for thousands of people. He authored the book Permission to Care: Building a Healthcare Culture that Thrives in Chaos where he shares how to integrate improv principles into your clinical and leadership practices.
In this podcast, we talk about how Cory got interested in improv comedy and how it helped him connect with his patients and create a more adaptable, empathetic, and humanizing healthcare experience.
We also talk about how improv can help healthcare leaders to become more resilient and some improv takeaways that healthcare leaders can start using today.
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June 7, 2023
#203: Being Your Future Self Now in Becoming a Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable Healthcare Leader
In this podcast, we talk about the importance of being your future self now in becoming a Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) healthcare leader.
You may or may not know that stepping into the identity of the person who has achieved the desired outcome is something we have been living with for quite some time.
But there were a few years where the results we desired weren't coming to fruition, and it was when we learned that we were using backward thinking that things began to change for us.
In fact, this concept is not new to us, and we’ve done this in our business, so we want to reinforce and emphasize its importance in this episode.
In this podcast, we talk about the concept of being your future self now and how healthcare leaders can apply it to survive and thrive.
We also talk about the three steps for living and creating your future self now and some examples of flipping stories from "Have-Do-Be" to "Be-Do-Have" perspectives.
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May 31, 2023
#202: The Importance of Leveraging Planning and Executing as Healthcare Leaders
In this podcast, we talk about the importance of leveraging Planning and Executing as healthcare leaders.
We know that effective organizational change requires a partnership between leaders and managers. They are both essential in planning a vision for change and executing the necessary actions to bring that vision into reality.
In fact, when Planning and Executing polarity is not leveraged, it creates greater tension and can lead to ineffective organizational change, wasted resources, and unsustainable outcomes.
In this episode, we talk about the benefits of Planning and Executing and some of the negative consequences if you over-focus on one to the neglect of the other.
We also talk about the different early warning signs when you are overemphasizing planning or executing and some actions you can take to ensure that the plan is in place and properly executed.
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May 24, 2023
#201: Making Self-Care a Number One Priority: A Personal Story with Elizabeth Correia
In this podcast, we talk with our special guest Elizabeth Correia about how she committed to making self-care a number one priority in her life and how she stays true to her commitment.
Elizabeth is a transformational speaker, author, coach, and Founder of Correia Enterprise, a women’s platform for personal growth and lifestyle design.
She has dedicated her life story and mission to helping women use their gifts and voice to heal and step into their greatest potential by gaining courage, confidence, and skills to share their life-changing work with the world.
In this podcast, Elizabeth shares her health story and how she developed her passion for personal growth and lifestyle design.
We also talk about some habit hacks to keep self-care goals intact and how healthcare clinicians or leaders can put themselves first before others.
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May 17, 2023
#200: How Good Partnerships Start with Good Partners
We are so thrilled to have reached our 200th episode, and what a perfect opportunity to discuss how good partnerships start with good partners.
We know good partnerships are important in business, marriage, or informal partnerships like council infrastructures, interprofessional teams, or even between patients and healthcare providers.
In fact, developing a partnership with your team can increase the time and energy spent on relationship-building and help you achieve your shared purpose.
But what characteristics can you and your team embody to be good partners?
In this podcast, we talk about the different characteristics of a good partner and the essential skills needed to support the partnership and enable it to thrive.
We also talk about the common elements of partnerships and some of our experiences as business partners, and what you can learn from them.
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May 10, 2023
#199: The Importance of a Strong CNO/CFO Partnership in Leveraging the Mission and Margin Polarity with Roberta Young and Camie Patterson
In this podcast, we talk with our special guests, Roberta Young and Camie Patterson about the importance of strong partnerships in leveraging the Mission and Margin polarity.
Roberta is the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and Vice President of Patient Care at Lake Region Healthcare. She has been a nurse and healthcare leader for over 42 years and has had the privilege of serving many patient populations, communities, and healthcare staff.
Camie joined Lake Region Healthcare in 2019 and serves as a member of the Executive team as a Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) where she ensures financial reports are prepared accurately and timely and works with leaders to make improvements so that the resources are used most effectively and efficiently.
In this podcast, we talk about some of the top challenges of Roberta and Camie as a Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Financial Officer and some of the perspectives on the importance of the CNO/CFO partnership.
We also talk about some recommendations for other CNO/CFO dyads to promote an interprofessional and healthy relationship, as well as how to stay connected in your partnerships.
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May 3, 2023
#198: Leadership Hacks for High Performance and Effectiveness as Healthcare Leaders
In this podcast, we are joined by phenomenal leaders who share their favorite "leadership hacks" that help them become more effective in today's healthcare environment.
We know that every healthcare leader wants to perform at their very best and make a positive impact on their team and organizations.
In fact, most leaders are always looking for new ways of thinking, processes, and tools to utilize and share with their teams.
While all leaders want to be high performers and effective, they may not know how to achieve it, especially during these challenging times. Are we right?
In this podcast, we talk about different "leadership hacks" that you will love to learn from other healthcare leaders and how they maintain their performance and effectiveness during difficult times.
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April 26, 2023
#197: Lessons on Polarity Intelligence™ in Advancing Leadership Well-Being featuring Dr. Kevin Browne
We’re so thrilled to have our special guest, Dr. Kevin Browne, joining us again for another valuable conversation about some leadership lessons in Polarity Intelligence™.
Kevin has been a nurse for 36 years and a Senior Executive Leadership Team member at St. Joseph’s Health in Paterson, New Jersey, and the Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nurse Executive.
He is responsible for Nursing Services, Respiratory Care Services, System Quality Infection Control, and Emergency Management across the enterprise. Before this position, Kevin was the Vice President and Deputy Chief Nursing Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK).
In this podcast, we talk about Kevin’s decision to reach out to us to facilitate a leadership retreat for his team focused on “Advancing Leadership Well-Being and Organization Resilience.”
We also talk about some of the key lessons and the responses of the leadership team to the leadership retreat and how they are continuing to apply what they have learned.
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April 19, 2023
#196: What Does it Mean to Become a Responsible Leader?
What does it mean to become a responsible leader during these challenging times? We know most healthcare leaders have faced many challenges over the past three years.
Therefore, becoming a responsible leader in this situation can make all the difference in how it impacts you.
In fact, being responsible means being the creator of your own life and 100% responsible for the results you get, whether positive or negative.
In this podcast, we talk about what it means to be a responsible and accountable leader and how it can help healthcare leaders thrive during these challenging times.
We also talk about the importance of being a responsible leader and some of the negative consequences when you are not a responsible leader.
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April 12, 2023
#195: Creating Work-Life Balance and Overcoming Guilt as a Healthcare Leader featuring Michele Derheim
In this podcast, we talk with our special guest Michele Derheim about her personal experience of work-life balance and overcoming the feeling of guilt as a healthcare leader.
Michele is a Clinical Nurse Director for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Pediatric Rapid Response Team, and Pediatric Dialysis Unit at the University of Michigan’s Mott Children’s Hospital.
She started working in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) directly out of nursing school and transitioned to the adult ICU. As a bedside nurse, Michele acted in charge nurse and staff educator roles, as well as teaching clinical groups of nursing students in their critical care rotations.
In this episode, Michele shares some important lessons about resilience, boundaries, and life priorities from her first formal leadership role.
She also shares how she applies the ‘Professional Life and Personal Life Polarity Map®’ as a tool to create and sustain dynamic balance in her life.
We also talk about how healthcare leaders struggle with feeling guilty for not being able to do more for their staff or being home more for their families and give some personal advice on overcoming the feeling of guilt.
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April 5, 2023
#194: Five Excuses That Keep You Stuck as a Healthcare Leader
We all have experienced times when we feel stuck, lacking movement, and feeling disappointed with our current situation and circumstances.
In fact, most healthcare leaders are feeling fearful and uncertain and don't have the energy to continue in their chosen careers or profession that they're dedicated to.
However, we may not realize that our attention, fear of change, and the stories we tell ourselves may impact our feelings of “being stuck” and our ability to move forward.
In this podcast, we talk about the five excuses or stories that keep you stuck as a leader and some examples on how to flip those excuses or stories around.We also talk about the three steps to help you move forward and get out of being stuck and the negative consequences of holding onto your old beliefs that prevent you from growing as a healthcare leader.
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March 29, 2023
#193: Leadership Experiences That Made Us the Leaders We Are Today
In this episode, we share some of the experiences that have shaped us and made us into the leaders we are today.
We've been leaders for a long time and we've had a lot of experiences, so it's always helpful to step back and reflect on those experiences that have shaped us or made us who we are today.
In fact, this is something we did when we started MissingLogic® and it's something we do periodically as we are called to grow and evolve as leaders.
In this podcast, we share some key takeaways from our leadership experiences and what you can learn from them as healthcare leaders.
We also talk about the importance of reflection and how it allows us to step back and gain a new perspective on what matters most as leaders.
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March 22, 2023
#192: Overcoming Adversity and Creating Authentic Leadership From Within featuring Graci Harkema
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Graci Harkema about her journey of overcoming adversity and her advice to find your authentic voice as a leader.
Graci is a multi-award-winning international diversity, equity, and inclusion speaker, consultant, and author. She specializes in unconscious bias and inclusive leadership training with Fortune 500 to small businesses within various industries.
Graci shares her inspirational story from being born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during civil unrest with little chance of survival to being adopted by an American missionary family, realizing her sexual orientation, and ultimately accepting herself for who she is.
We also talk about some of her greatest lessons in writing the book ‘Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom- and Back Again’ and some advice to be more authentic as leaders.
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March 15, 2023
#191: Balancing Confidence and Humility as an Emerging Healthcare Leader
In this episode, we talk about the importance of leveraging the tension between Confidence and Humility as a healthcare leader.
We know most emerging and evolving leaders are leading and living in a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) world where we recognize the need for both Confidence and Humility during these challenging times.
In fact, both are equally important to have successful and effective leadership. That’s why leveraging these tensions, or polarities can help you and your team spend very little time experiencing the negative consequences of both poles.
In this podcast, we talk about why leveraging this tension requires self-awareness and how both confidence and Humility can help you become a Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) healthcare leader.
We also talk about some of the positive outcomes when you leverage this tension and some of the negative outcomes when you over-focus on one to the neglect of the other.
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March 8, 2023
#188: Managing Stress through the Pressure-Free Living Method featuring Elle Ingalls
In this episode, we talk about our special guest Elle Ingalls about managing stress through the Pressure-Free Living Method.
Elle is a high-performance coach who specializes in helping individuals and groups of any size to up-level their performance without the stress and burnout often experienced by high achievers.
For nearly 40 years, she has been teaching mental toughness techniques which are now taught in her science-based method called the ‘Pressure-Free Method' which helps you reduce stress and anxiety without slowing down.
She's a former Forbes Coach and Council Member and has coached C-Suite executives, business owners, health professionals, athletes, musicians, and high-achieving students.
Elle shares the three simple steps of the Pressure-Free Method and some tools to avoid triggering the fight-or-flight stress response.
We also talk about her book 'Pressure-Free Parenting: The Ten-Second Solution to Less Stress and Anxiety for High-Achieving Families' and why she started with parenting for her first book.
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February 15, 2023
#187: Finding Balance Between Holding On and Letting Go as a Healthcare Leader
In this podcast, we talk about the importance of finding balance between Holding On and Letting Go as healthcare leaders.
We know these are incredibly challenging times and that you are facing things you’ve never faced before or no one has taught you how to deal with them as an emerging or evolving leader.
As a result, you rely on what you have learned and experienced in the past about being a leader since there is no blueprint or manual on how to lead during these times. Are we right?
That’s why it’s important to have a delicate balance of letting go of the past that is not serving you, so you can move into the future that will serve you best as a leader.
In this podcast, we talk about the negative consequences of not letting go of the past and how that is not serving you, as well as some of the benefits of practicing reflection as a leader.
We also talk about the ‘stepping-stone’ approach to reflect on milestones in your leadership journey and some of our stepping-stone milestones, and what you can learn from them.
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February 8, 2023
#186: The Importance of Setting Brave Boundaries featuring Dr. Sasha Shillcutt
We are so thrilled to share our great talk with our special guest Dr. Sasha Shillcutt about the importance of setting brave boundaries between our personal and professional lives as leaders.
Sasha is a cardiac anesthesiologist, a tenured Endowed Professor, and the Vice Chair of Strategy and Innovation in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC).
She is the CEO and founder of Brave Enough and a best-selling author of her first book, Between Grit and Grace, How to be Feminine and Formidable, and her second book, Brave Boundaries, Strategies to Say No, Stand Strong, and Take Control of Your Time, was released in September of 2022.
Sasha frequently speaks to executives and companies on the topics of professional burnout, resilience, and gender equity and has a featured TEDx Talk on “Resilience: The Art of Failing Forward” that has been viewed by thousands of people.
Sasha shares her journey of burnout, discovering the significance of boundaries, and some Boundary Rebel Truths from her book Brave Boundaries.
We also talk about the biggest barriers for healthcare leaders to set and keep boundaries and some of the generational differences in setting boundaries.
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February 1, 2023
#185: Three New Leadership Norms in Healthcare
In this episode, we talk about the three new leadership norms to become a Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) healthcare leader.
We know that norms can be good things and helpful in our lives, but some norms may also unintentionally cause pain and suffering. In fact, these unhealthy leadership norms have been experienced by healthcare leaders for many years.
That’s why we are on a mission to bust through these unhealthy norms and help healthcare leaders embrace new norms that promote health, well-being, and dynamic balance in their lives.
In this podcast, we talk about the importance of being aware and mindful of those unhealthy norms and some of the negative sequences of following the old leadership norms.
We also talk about the importance of defining your ‘why’ for your boundaries and some of the positive outcomes if you establish the three new norms in your life.
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January 25, 2023
#184: Addressing Nurse Leaders’ Top Challenges featuring Dr. Robyn Begley
In this podcast, we talk with our special guest Dr. Robyn Begley about the American Organization for Nursing Leadership’s (AONL's) latest Longitudinal Insight Survey on the impact of COVID-19 on nursing leadership.
Robyn is the Chief Executive Officer of AONL as well as the Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Vice President of the American Hospital Association (AHA).
Robyn shares the background of AONL Foundation, AONL and Joslin Insight’s partnership to bring these four important studies to fruition. She shares significant highlights from the fourth study about nurse leaders' top challenges, nurse leader work satisfaction, and data on intent to leave their position.
We also talk about some added data regarding workplace violence, bullying, and incivility in the workplace.
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January 18, 2023
#183: Leveraging Self-Reliance and Interdependence as a Healthcare Leader
In this podcast, we talk about the importance of leveraging the polarity of Self-Reliance and Interdependence as a healthcare leader.
We know it’s been three years of COVID-19 and we are now post-pandemic, but we’re still living in a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) world where we need to be self-reliant and interdependent as we move through these challenging times.
In fact, both are equally important for emerging and evolving healthcare leaders to achieve effective and successful leadership.
In this podcast, we talk about why leveraging the tension between Self-Reliance and Interdependence requires self-awareness and mindful choices.
We also talk about the positive outcomes of Self-Reliance and Interdependence and some of the negative consequences if you over-focus on one to the neglect of the other.
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January 11, 2023
#182: NAM’s National Plan for Improving Healthcare Workforce Well-Being featuring Dr. Lucinda Maine
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Lucinda Maine about the NAM’s (National Academy of Medicine) National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being.
Lucinda served as Executive Vice President and CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (ACCP), which is the leading advocate for high-quality pharmacy education in the US.
She currently serves as a board member of the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education and has received numerous awards for her work in her field.
We asked Lucinda to join us on our podcast because she is a member of NAM’s interprofessional Collaborative Steering Committee that met to identify priority areas to advance healthcare worker well being.
In this episode, Lucinda shares the seven priorities of the NAM’s National Plan to support and improve the health workforce and the health of all communities.
We also talk about some practical actions to address those priorities and how healthcare leaders can advocate for the plan.
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January 4, 2023
#181: Encore Episode: TRU Series Personal Alignment
In this third and final episode of our 3-part series, we focus on Personal Alignment, which is Pillar #3 of our Dynamic Balance EffectTM (DBE) Framework.
We believe that Personal Alignment is about living on purpose and aligning your actions with the essence of who you really are as a healthcare leader.
In this podcast, we discuss how Personal Alignment and Polarity Intelligence™ help bring out Wisdom and how Mindful Choices and Personal Alignment help leaders with Grit.
We also discuss the different elements of Personal Alignment and what you can do to help you become personally aligned.
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December 28, 2022
#180: Encore Episode: TRU Series Polarity Intelligence
In this second episode of our three-part series, we focus on leveraging Polarity Intelligence™, which is Pillar #2 of our Dynamic Balance EffectTM (DBE) Framework.
Polarity Intelligence applies the “missinglogic” to leverage the unavoidable tensions and challenges impacting your daily life.
The thing is, most healthcare leaders feel these tensions are problems to solve because it’s the only lens they’ve ever known. If you treat them as problems and you don’t realize that you’re experiencing unmanaged polarities, you will realize your greatest fears and end up failing.
In this podcast, we talk about the numerous tensions that act on you and how to identify and leverage them to establish a balanced life.
We also talk about four crux personal polarities and their early warning signs, and negative outcomes if you over-focus on one over the other.
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December 21, 2022
#179: Encore Episode: TRU Series Mindful Choices
In this first episode of a 3-part series, we focus on making Mindful Choices which is Pillar #1 of our Dynamic Balance Effect™ (DBE) Framework.
Mindful choices as one of the pillars encompasses how to live and choose from the principles or values that ground you in what matters most and provide the guardrails for your life.
But how can you make mindful choices and choose from the principles that guide and ground you? You need to step back, reevaluate, reconnect, and recommit to the most important things to you and the principles that can guide and center you.
In this podcast, we discuss what helps you make mindful choices, what we've learned personally about making mindful choices, and the key learnings we've had with healthcare leaders across the country.
We also talk about the different elements in Pillar #1 and some examples of how they come alive.
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December 14, 2022
#178: Leveraging Strengths with Enneagram in Becoming a TRU Healthcare Leader featuring Amy Shepard
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Amy Shephard about the importance of leveraging your strengths through Enneagram in becoming a Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) healthcare leader.
Amy is a certified enneagram coach and the founder of Vennwise, who is committed to helping individuals, families, and teams thrive through courage, clarity, and communication.
She has spent decades applying the Enneagram to facilitate the success of leaders, teams, and organizations to ensure that her clients can experience immediate and long-lasting insights and growth.
Amy shares how applying the Enneagram can help you become strong and personally aligned as a leader and team. We also give advice to those who want to learn more about the Enneagram but think it’s too complex.
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December 7, 2022
#177: Creating Magical Moments and Living Your Best Life as a Healthcare Leader featuring Renwick Brutus
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Renwick Brutus about living your best life regardless of your circumstances as a healthcare leader.
Renwick has created multiple workshops and published "The Achievers Pocket Guide to Effective Networking”. He has lived a resilient and resourceful journey in life extricating himself from commonplace biases and restraints.
He borrows from his career experiences where he has seized opportunities that exist within his work to achieve positive results and now guides others to improve their results.
Renwick shares how to find and create more “miracle moments” in your life and how to encourage leaders to "be open to possibilities" and imagine what's possible.
We also talk about his upcoming book and some reflection questions on how to become irresistible to make your life better and positively impact the people around you.
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November 30, 2022
#176: Seven Reasons to Claim and Share Power for Healthcare Leaders
In this episode, we talk about the seven reasons to Claim and Share Power and why it's essential for healthcare leaders.
We know most emerging and evolving leaders have been in a time of uncertainty, and they don't know what the "new normal" is as everything seems to be in a constant state of change.
As a result, they go with the flow, waiting for someone to provide direction because they don't feel worthy of their power or feel that exerting their personal power is a career-ending move.
The thing is, no one can give you power because it doesn't come from an external source, and even if there is a power associated with your role or position, it will dissipate over time if you don't claim your own power.
In this podcast, we talk about why it's important to leverage the Claiming and Sharing Power polarity and some of the negative consequences of not leveraging the tools to claim and share power.
We also talk about how your personal and shared power can show up and some of the positive outcomes of leveraging this tension.
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November 23, 2022
#175: How to Support Healthcare Leaders in Creating and Developing Sustainable Results Through VUCA Tools with Dr. Ann Deaton
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Ann Deaton about supporting healthcare leaders in creating and developing sustainable results through VUCA tools.
Ann is a leadership and team coach. She is the author of the book, VUCA Tools for a VUCA World: Developing Leaders and Teams for Sustainable Results.
During her two-decade career in healthcare, she held supervisory and leadership roles in several healthcare and rehabilitation systems, where she had the opportunity to experience both the suffering that comes with unacknowledged paradox and the success that accompanies consciously assessing both/and thinking.
Ann discusses VUCA Tools and how it influences companies and supports healthcare leaders to thrive during these challenging times.
We also talk about some common polarities that many healthcare leaders and organizations are grappling with today.
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November 16, 2022
#174: Leveraging a Creator Orientation to Focus on Current Reality and Desired Outcomes
In this episode, we talk about leveraging a creator orientation to focus on your current reality and future desired outcome as a healthcare leader.
We know leaders and healthcare organizations have been facing numerous challenges on a daily basis for the past three years.
In fact, the current circumstances are difficult where staffing is terrible, the volume and acuity of patients are high, and there is a lack of seasoned or experienced leaders to learn from.
That’s why putting your attention and orientation on addressing the desired outcomes is critical to achieving sustainable progress and positive outcomes.
The thing is, when you hold a creator orientation and focus on leveraging and learning from the current realities while moving toward future desired outcomes, you will experience more positive outcomes and sustainable progress.
In this podcast, we talk about the importance of leveraging the tension between your current reality and future desired outcomes and some of the negative consequences if you over-focus on one to the neglect of the other.
We also share some personal experiences about leveraging these tensions and what you can learn from them.
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November 9, 2022
#172: Avoiding the Pot Holes on the Journey From Who You Are To Who You Want to
In this episode, we talk about avoiding the potholes on the journey from who you are to who you want to become as a healthcare leader.
We know many emerging or evolving leaders have the intention and greater purpose of becoming the best version of themselves as a leader.
But most healthcare leaders feel like they don’t have the capability or have lost their confidence when transitioning or stepping into a new role.
Therefore, it’s important to leverage the tension between honoring who you are today and stepping into who you want to be, so you can be your best self as a leader and achieve your greater purpose in life.
In this podcast, we talk about why it’s important to leverage both tensions and some of the negative consequences if you over-focus on one to the neglect of the other.
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October 26, 2022
#170: The Importance of Leveraging Intent and Impact for Emerging Healthcare Leaders
In this episode, we talk about leveraging Intent and Impact and why it’s important for emerging healthcare leaders.
We know every leader wants to have a positive impact on their team and organization, but they may have a deeper fear that they will become ineffective as a leader.
In fact, most healthcare leaders have great intentions to make a greater difference but fail to act on them because no one has taught them how to balance the tension between Intent and Impact.
In this podcast, we talk about why it’s essential to leverage this tension to become an effective healthcare leader and some of the negative consequences if you don’t have a dynamic balance between the two.
We also talk about the positive outcome of leveraging Intent and Impact and why it requires self-awareness and vigilance to balance this tension.
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October 12, 2022
#169: Holistic Leadership: A Model in Post-Pandemic Recovery featuring Dr. Michael Bleich
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Michael Bleich about his Holistic Leadership Model and the alignment with Polarity IntelligenceTM.
Michael is a Wisconsin native who has held clinical, consultative, service, academic, and association leadership positions. He has diploma, BSN, MPH, and PhD degrees from Midwestern schools and completed fellowships with the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the WK Foundation.
Michael is not a stranger to Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast! He was our guest on Episode 140 when we determined at the end of the interview we needed to have him back on the show to do a deeper dive on Holistic Leadership.
Michael shares the four domains of Holistic Leadership and why it’s essential in healthcare leadership today. We also talk about his perspective on leadership and management and why we need both in healthcare.
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October 5, 2022
#168: Health Informatics and Innovative Strategies for Interprofessional Leadership in Healthcare featuring Dr. Marion Ball & Tori Shaw Morawski
In this episode, we talk with our special guests, Dr. Marion Ball and Tori Shaw Morawski, about health informatics and innovative strategies for interprofessional leadership in healthcare.
Marion is an international innovator, educator, author, and member of the National Academy of Medicine with over 45 years of experience in the healthcare IT community. Her research focuses on health informatics curriculum design, education, and enabling technology from theory into practice.
Tori has over 15 years of experience designing and implementing grassroots programs and initiatives. She currently serves as the Senior Manager of Professional Development for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) where she oversees all programs, activities, volunteer efforts, and research for global health informatics students and professionals.
Marion and Tori share about the new Springer book “Nursing Informatics: A Health Informatics, Interprofessional and Global Perspective (5th Edition)” and the role of informatics and technology in improving the well-being of clinicians, the efficiency of the health system, and the safety of patients.
We also discuss the chapter we co-authored about “Interprofessional Leadership: Innovative Strategies” from an intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial perspective.
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September 28, 2022
#167: Leveraging Personal Change and Stability for TRU Healthcare Leaders
In this episode, we talk about leveraging personal Change and Stability and why it's important for Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) healthcare leaders.
We know leaders deal with ongoing challenges and changes daily, and their attention has been on their team and organization.
In fact, many healthcare leaders have let go of their personal rituals and routines that bring Stability because of the workload and other challenges brought on by the pandemic.
The thing is, without Change and Stability, you'll feel powerless and stuck, and you're at risk of change happening to you instead of you leading the change in your own life.
Therefore, Change and Stability is an important personal tension or polarity to manage now with the current healthcare situation.
In this podcast, we talk about the importance of recognizing Change and Stability as a polarity and why it's an important tension to manage in healthcare, not only at the organization level but at the personal level, too.
We also talk about some actionable steps to help you create personal Change and Stability and some of the negative consequences of not leveraging this polarity.
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September 21, 2022
#166: The Importance of Creating Margin for Healthcare Leaders
In this episode, we talk about creating a margin in your life and why it’s important for Thriving, Resilient and Unstoppable (TRU) healthcare leaders.
We know leaders continue to experience numerous Covid surges, staffing shortages, increasing demands on their work, and other challenges that have kept the work intensity high that causes fatigue leading to exhaustion and burnout.
In fact, most healthcare leaders continue to experience pain from the stress and work overload they deal with everyday and trying to balance everything on their plates.
In this podcast, we introduce the concept of “margin” in four areas in our lives to achieve balance and some of the underlying polarities.
We also talk about some tips on creating margin in your life and some of the negative consequences of not having margin in your life.
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September 14, 2022
#165: Developing Resilience and Balance: A Personal Experience with Michelle Maricic
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Michelle Maricic about the importance of developing and strengthening resilience and balance during challenging times. Michelle has a powerful personal story and message to share with healthcare leaders about living life to the fullest every day because you never know what tomorrow will bring (or the next ten minutes).
Michelle is a CEO and successful entrepreneur who served as a healthcare executive, leader and mentor over the last three decades. She has been an emergency room nurse and administrator and is passionate about utilizing technology to positively improve the way we practice health care.
Michelle shares her greatest lessons on resilience and balance that she learned after battling a life-threatening diagnosis of cancer. We also talk about some advice for healthcare leaders about the importance of prioritizing their health and well-being.
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September 7, 2022
#164: Resilience and Well-Being of Healthcare Professionals during Extraordinary Times featuring Dr. Shelley Cohen Konrad
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Shelley Cohen Conrad about the resilience and well-being of healthcare professionals during extraordinary times.
Shelley is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Collaborative Education at the University of New England and a professor at the University of New England School of Social Work.
She graduated from Boston University in Developmental Psychology and received an MSW and PhD in Social Work from Simmons University in Boston. In 2014, she was inducted as a distinguished scholar and fellow in the National Academies of Practice (NAP), and the Social Work Academy.
Shelly discusses her keynote presentation at the 2022 NAP Annual Forum on resilience and the approach she took to ensure she represented the perspectives of many health professionals on the topic of resilience.
We also talk about Individual and Team Resilience and some interventions or experiences to make the most significant difference in being resilient.
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August 31, 2022
#163: The Importance of Energy Management in Becoming a TRU Healthcare Leader
We’ve been in extremely challenging times of a pandemic, dealing with trauma, and facing overwhelming demands requiring our energy to overcome relentless challenges.
In fact, most conflicted healthcare leaders are in the “survival mode,” feeling multiple tensions working on them, and have developed a state of chronic stress over time.
Therefore, managing your energy and paying attention to where you place it will help you move through challenging times and become a TRU healthcare leader.
In this episode, we talk about the importance of Energy Management in becoming a Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) healthcare leader and some of the consequences of not managing your energy.
We also talk about some tips on how to prevent energy leaks and some of the positive outcomes of managing your energy.
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August 24, 2022
#162: Creating Your “Personal Style” through Personal Alignment with Alma Barrero
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Alma Barrero about her book "Style Power" and the importance of creating your "Personal Style" through personal alignment.
Alma is an intuitive style coach, a former corporate executive, a wife, and a mother. Her proprietary Style Power Formula™ is a simple and life-changing philosophy for creating a wardrobe that aligns with who you truly are.
She's also an international speaker, mentor, and entrepreneur who helps her clients from both the entrepreneurial and corporate world to create a life-changing connection with their wardrobes while manifesting more freedom and success in their life.
Alma shares the three pillars of The Style Power Formula™ and how she created her own version of style. We also talk about her journey regarding a personal health issue and how she redefined her relationship with her body.
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August 17, 2022
#161: The Importance of Polarity Intelligence™ Awareness for Healthcare Leaders
In this episode, we talk about the importance of Polarity Intelligence™ Awareness for healthcare leaders and why it’s essential to leverage them.
We know Polarity Intelligence™ is an essential competency for healthcare leaders. Therefore, it’s important to recognize polarities and differentiate them from problems.
The thing is, you can’t address and manage a polarity if you don’t know it exists or if you treat it as a problem to solve.
In this podcast, we talk about four levels of Polarity Intelligence Awareness and some of the consequences that occur if you are not consciously aware of your present polarities.
We also talk about the importance of differentiating between problems and polarities, and some reflection questions about identifying your level of competency so you can take action to increase your Polarity Intelligence.
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August 10, 2022
#160: Preventing Burnout Through a Strong Practice Culture featuring Natasha Beauvais, MD
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Natasha Beauvais about preventing burnout through a strong practice culture.
Natasha is a Board-certified Family Medicine physician at Northern Virginia Family Practice specializing in disease prevention and helping people build insights into the connection between their physical wellness and psychological health.
With more than 20 years of professional experience, she understands the deep connection between our physical well-being, medical health, and mental health.
Natasha shares some of the biggest challenges to remain “human” in the workplace and some strategies for creating a practice culture that benefits the patients and the healthcare workers.
We also talk about some of her greatest hopes to accelerate the improvement of our cultures and human development through our collective experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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August 3, 2022
#159: Six Mental Habits of a TRU Healthcare Leader
In this episode, we talk about the Six Mental Habits of a Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) healthcare leader and the different underlying polarities.
We know mental habits are equally important as physical habits. In fact, without positive mental habits, you’ll end up overthinking each challenge, focusing on things that deplete your energy, and getting the same results over and over again.
Therefore, establishing a positive mental habit is essential to supporting your transformation into becoming a Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) healthcare leader.
In this podcast, we talk about why mental habits are equally important as physical habits for healthcare leaders and some of the consequences of not paying attention to your mental habits.
We also discuss why creating a mental habit is an internal state and some reflection questions about your current mental habits.
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July 27, 2022
#158: Reducing Mental Health Stigma among Healthcare Professionals featuring Corey Feist
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Corey Feist about reducing mental health stigma and the importance of mental health and well-being among healthcare professionals.
Corey is a healthcare executive with over 20 years of experience. He is the President and co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation and recently served as the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Virginia Physicians Group.
During his career, he has focused on transforming healthcare by empowering people and improving processes. He also holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
Corey shares how a private family tragedy went public and how he and his wife responded to it. He shares about the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation and its noble cause to reduce burnout among healthcare professionals and safeguard their well-being.
We also discuss the existing stigma of healthcare providers seeking mental health support and policy reforms to support frontline healthcare workers experiencing burnout and mental health challenges.
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July 20, 2022
#157: Healthcare Leaders: Should You Lead or Should You Manage Now?
In this episode, we talk about Leading and Managing and some of the myths about this polarity.
We know there are a few misperceptions about Leading and Managing. That it is one “versus” the other. The thing is, they are not EITHER/OR, and they are not “one and the same.”
In fact, Leading and Managing are interdependent values. They are BOTH/AND, so are equally important in any organization and represent a significant polarity that must be leveraged.
In this podcast, we talk about the positive attributes of Leading and Managing and different circumstances if you over-focus on one to the neglect of the other. We also talk about the different related polarities that contribute to Leading and Managing.
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July 13, 2022
#156: How Communication is The Care You Give Yourself and Others with Jennifer George
In this podcast, we talk with our special guest Jennifer George how communication is a care methodology and how it can be used to combat burnout.
Jennifer George is an award-winning author, speaker, podcaster, and compassion-focused Physiotherapist with vast experience in the private and public sectors of care.
At the onset of her career, she became a caregiver to her chronically ill father. Her personal experiences helped shape her professional practice and led to writing her award-winning book, Communication is Care: 9 Empowering Strategies to Guide Patient Healing (2019).
Jennifer shares her journey into Physiotherapy and the importance of positive communication in our healthcare system. We also talk about how healthcare providers can apply her different strategies to establish better communication skills for the healing of their patients.
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July 6, 2022
#155: Managing Parent Guilt Around Self-Care featuring Melissa Salmeron
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Melissa Salmeron about managing parent guilt and some strategies parents can use to care for themselves and others.
Melissa Salmeron is a certified master's life coach. She helps moms give themselves the space they need to defeat overwhelm, step into their power and show up as their true selves through the power of her CARE Method.
Melissa shares her journey to stepping into entrepreneurship to serve overworked moms, how to establish boundaries, and how leaders can deal with parent guilt.
We also talk about her CARE Method, some trends and concerns of children during this challenging time, and how to help them with their well-being.
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June 29, 2022
#154: Creating Sanctuary: Healing Inside and Thriving Outside featuring P. Annie Kirk
In this episode, we talk with our special guest P. Annie Kirk about the importance of creating a sanctuary for leaders.
Annie, also known as Annie Red Bird, is a social worker turned coach and guide for inner and outer sanctuary growth and transformation. She is also a sanctuary and healing garden design expert, intuitive coach, and aspiring farmer in Oregon, United States.
She is the Founder and Creative Director of Red Bird Restorative Gardens, a design consultancy creating elevated healing and empowering space restorative to a precious, energetic, and fulfilled life.
Annie shares about the "Sanctuary Within" and why it's important for healthcare leaders to have a "sanctuary place."
We also talk about the Sanctuary SELF Solution to help leaders with healing and personal transformation and some practical action steps to enhance your "Being" muscle.
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June 22, 2022
#153: How to Reclaim Unconditional Love for Yourself and Body with Lizzy Cangro
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Lizzy Cangro about her book “Reclaim the Rebel: 12 Rebellious Acts to Achieve Unconditional Love for Your Body” and some rebellious acts to help you transform your health and wellness.
Lizzy is an expert nutritionist and wellness coach with a deep passion for helping others feel good about themselves and love their body unconditionally. Inspired by her journey to wellness, she founded Nutrition by Lizzy in 2017 to help clients rebel against the diet industry and achieve sustainable long-term health and wellness using a combination of nutrition, movement, and mindset.
Lizzy shares her journey of recovering from an eating disorder to rediscovering compassion and unconditional love for her body. We also talk about how to use our love languages to improve our relationships with ourselves and what we can do to silence that “inner mean girl” and rewrite our stories.
At the end of the episode, Lizzy offers a gift to all MissingLogic listeners: Visit https://nutritionbylizzy.com/shop/rebel and enter the code REBEL at checkout to get your ebook copy of Reclaim the Rebel.
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June 15, 2022
#152: A Caring Series: Caring for Each Other
In this third and final episode of our 3-part series, we talk about Caring for Each Other and how you can spend more time caring for each other in your leadership teams as fellow leaders and friends.
We know that new leaders feel incredibly lonely as they have been literally "thrown in" into leadership roles with minimal management experience and have so much to navigate through the constant stress and change. In fact, it's not uncommon for most healthcare leaders these days to "feel alone."
The other thing is that healthcare leaders often feel isolated because they have a fear of being seen as weak, especially when leaders have been indoctrinated to become strong, so there's a fear of saying we need to "Care for Each Other."
In this podcast, we talk about some examples of Caring for Each Other and how it's different from Caring for Others.
We also talk about the Gallup published article in 2018: Why We Need Best Friends at Work and some of the limiting beliefs about building relationships at work.
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June 8, 2022
#151: A Caring Series: Caring for Others
In this second episode of our three-part series, we discuss Caring for Others and why it’s important for Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) leaders.
We know serving others is in your DNA as healthcare clinicians and leaders. We’ve been indoctrinated to become servant leaders, always focusing on the needs of our team and organization before our own needs.
Servant leadership is not a bad thing. In fact, this approach to leadership is very rewarding and honorable until you “over-serve” and neglect yourself. As a result, you’ll end up feeling stressed, exhausted, and unfulfilled.
In this podcast, we share a few of our tips for Caring for Others that we put into action with our team, clients, and families.
We also discuss some of the benefits of Caring for Others and some of the consequences of over-serving your team and organizations.
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June 1, 2022
#150: A Caring Series: Caring for Self
In this first episode of a 3-part series, we focus on Caring for SELF and why it's essential for Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) leaders.
We know most healthcare leaders have a limiting belief that self-care is selfish. In fact, we've been indoctrinated to put ourselves last in the lists of our priorities.
The thing is, if you overfocus on "Others" to the neglect of caring for "YOU", you'll experience negative consequences and end up feeling burnt out, exhausted, and your needs go unmet.
In this podcast, we share WHY you need to be cared for first, what we have learned personally and professionally, and some great SELF CARE action steps to care for you.
We also talk about some of the leader's limiting beliefs about self-care and why prioritizing yourself is important.
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May 25, 2022
#149: Setting Boundaries: Becoming a Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable Leader with Terri Cole
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Terri Cole about her book “Boundary Boss” and why boundaries are important for thriving, resilient, and unstoppable leaders.
Terri is a licensed psychotherapist, global relationship and empowerment expert, and the author of “Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and Finally Live Free.”
For over two decades, Terri has worked with a diverse group of clients, from stay-at-home moms to celebrities and fortune 500 CEOs. She has a gift for making complex psychological concepts accessible and actionable so that clients and students achieve sustainable change.
Terri shares her journey of becoming the “boundary boss” and explores where our boundary blueprints come from. We also talk about the “Boundary Boss Bill of Rights” and what a “high-functioning codependent” (HFC) is and why it’s an issue for some people.
At the end of the episode, Terri offers a gift to all MissingLogic listeners: Visit BoundaryBoss.me/MissingLogic to watch the video and grab the boundary strategies and scripts.
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May 18, 2022
#148: How Post Traumatic Growth Can Help You Thrive as a Healthcare Leader
We know healthcare clinicians and leaders have been through unbelievable stress and trauma over the past two years. In fact, they had to make difficult decisions and deal with very challenging situations during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Therefore, understanding post-traumatic growth and some simple action steps can be helpful to healthcare leaders and organizations to support their emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being.
In this podcast, we talk about how a “post-traumatic growth” mindset and strategy can help you move the negative outcomes from the past into a place of positive healing, well-being, and personal growth.
We also discuss the five domains of post-traumatic growth and how they align with our work with healthcare leaders in our multiple coaching programs leveraging our Dynamic Balance Effect™ Framework.
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May 11, 2022
#147: Coping with Burnout: A Respiratory Therapist’s Perspective featuring Joel Brown
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Joel Brown about burnout in Respiratory Therapy and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Respiratory Therapist leaders.
Joel is the CEO and founder of Arrived Leadership (AL) and the President of the Executive Board for Delaware Guidance Services and Vice-Chair of the Board for Leadership Delaware Inc, and the Chair-Elect for the Leadership and Management Section of the American Association of Respiratory Care (AARC).
He is an accomplished Respiratory Care Practitioner and an internationally recognized public speaker, researcher, and author. He received a baccalaureate degree in Biology and Respiratory Care from the Millersville University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Science Management from Wilmington University in Delaware.
Joel shares some strategies to support Respiratory Therapists to move beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. We also talk about his journey on how he entered the Respiratory Therapy profession and some lessons he learned along the way.
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May 4, 2022
#146: A Ph.D. Journey featuring Dr. Tracy Christopherson
In this episode, we shine the spotlight on the PhD journey of MissingLogic co-founder and Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast co-host, Dr. Tracy Christopherson. In this very special episode, her best friend and business partner, Michelle Troseth, interviews her about some of her greatest lessons learned in her PhD journey.
Dr. Christopherson completed her PhD in Interprofessional Healthcare Studies at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science with her dissertation on, “Exploring the Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Knowledge and Dual Identity of Interprofessional Shared Governance Members in Healthcare.”
In this podcast, we talk about her post-licensure education journey and some of the biggest challenges she faced in her PhD journey. We also talk about some of the most interesting findings from her PhD research.
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April 27, 2022
#145: TRU Healthcare Leader Series: Personal Alignment
In this third and final episode of our 3-part series, we focus on Personal Alignment, which is Pillar #3 of our Dynamic Balance EffectTM (DBE) Framework.
We believe that Personal Alignment is about living on purpose and aligning your actions with the essence of who you really are as a healthcare leader.
In this podcast, we discuss how Personal Alignment and Polarity Intelligence™ help bring out Wisdom and how Mindful Choices and Personal Alignment help leaders with Grit.
We also discuss the different elements of Personal Alignment and what you can do to help you become personally aligned.
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April 20, 2022
#144: TRU Healthcare Leader Series: Polarity Intelligence
In this second episode of our three-part series, we focus on leveraging Polarity Intelligence™, which is Pillar #2 of our Dynamic Balance EffectTM (DBE) Framework.
Polarity Intelligence applies the “missinglogic” to leverage the unavoidable tensions and challenges impacting your daily life.
The thing is, most healthcare leaders feel these tensions are problems to solve because it’s the only lens they’ve ever known. If you treat them as problems and you don’t realize that you’re experiencing unmanaged polarities, you will realize your greatest fears and end up failing.
In this podcast, we talk about the numerous tensions that act on you and how to identify and leverage them to establish a balanced life.
We also talk about four crux personal polarities and their early warning signs, and negative outcomes if you over-focus on one over the other.
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April 13, 2022
#143: TRU Healthcare Leaders Series: Mindful Choices
In this first episode of a 3-part series, we focus on making Mindful Choices which is Pillar #1 of our Dynamic Balance Effect™ (DBE) Framework.Mindful choices as one of the pillars encompasses how to live and choose from the principles or values that ground you in what matters most and provides the guardrails for your life.But how can you make mindful choices and choose from the principles that guide and ground you? You need to step back, reevaluate, reconnect, and recommit to the most important things to you and the principles that can guide and center you.In this podcast, we discuss what helps you make mindful choices, what we've learned personally about making mindful choices, and the key learnings we've had with healthcare leaders across the country.We also talk about the different elements in Pillar #1 and some examples of how they come alive.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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April 6, 2022
#142: Coping with Burnout: A Physical Therapy Perspective featuring Dr. Karen Mueller
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Karen Mueller about her research on burnout with physical therapy students and faculty and the implications for students and new clinicians entering the workforce.Karen is a professor and founding core faculty member at Rasmussen University. She is the author of the book, “Communication from the Inside Out: Strategies for the Engaged Professional,” and has authored several articles pertaining to the role of physical therapy intervention in end-of-life care.Karen shares some significant findings of their first study published in 2018 in The International Journal of Health, Wellness, and Society on “Patterns of Academic Burnout, Emotional Distress, and Coping” with doctoral physical therapy (DPT) students.We also talk about the results of their new study on “Self-compassion and Compassion for Others in Physical Therapy Students, Faculty and Clinical Instructors” and implications for new clinicians entering the workforce.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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March 30, 2022
#141: Top 5 Reasons to Shift Healthcare Leadership Norms
Can we create new leadership norms in healthcare?Most healthcare leaders and organizations are literally living in “one day or moment at a time” survival mode. In fact, more and more healthcare leaders are leaving their positions due to burnout.Therefore, we believe NOW is the perfect time to challenge the current leadership norms and shift to NEW leadership norms. It is time to be bold enough to stop sacrificing yourself for your team and organization.We need to create new leadership norms where all healthcare leaders can be their best selves at work and at home, live more balanced lives, experience more joy, and become role models for new emerging leaders.In this episode, we talk about the top five reasons to shift the healthcare leadership norms and why we are being called to be BOLD.We also talk about the book of Bronnie Ware, “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing,” and how it relates to our current leadership norms.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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March 23, 2022
#140: Post-Pandemic Opportunities for Healthcare Leaders featuring Michael Bleich
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Michael Bleich about his lessons in leadership and post-pandemic opportunities for healthcare leaders.Michael Bleich is senior professor and director at Langston Center for Innovation in Quality and Safety at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing. He is also a nationally recognized scholar and thought leader who has held clinical, consultative service, academic, and association leadership positions nationwide.We discuss the recent report “The Future of Nursing, 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity,” which explores how nurses can work to reduce health disparities, promote equity and improve the health and well-being among nurses and other healthcare providers.We also talk about holistic leadership and why it should be advanced as a model for leadership development and practice.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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March 16, 2022
#139: Building a Multiracial Liberation Movement through a Polarity Lens featuring Beth Applegate
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Beth Applegate about building a multiracial liberation movement through a polarity lens.Beth is the founder of Applegate Consulting Group (ACG), a woman-owned organizational development (OD) practice with three decades of experience with national and international not-for-profit organizations, academic institutions, and governmental agencies.She identifies as an Applied Behavioral Science scholar-practitioner positioned to bring to the forefront the tradition of inquiry and dialogue to the service of social justice and healthy individuals, groups, and organizations in the world.We discuss “Chapter 5: Support and Challenge – For You and Me” that she authored in the Volume 2 book collated by Barry Johnson, which talks about building a multiracial liberation movement by using a polarity lens and how to apply it to ourselves as anti-racist white people.We also talk about the implications of having EITHER/OR thinking and how a polarity lens inviting AND/BOTH thinking is critical to multiracial liberation.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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March 9, 2022
#138: Balancing Feminine and Masculine Energies
Every human being has masculine and feminine energy, but it’s often misunderstood that feminine energy only comes with a woman or masculine energy only comes with a man.If your masculine energy and feminine energy are unbalanced, one of those energies becomes dominant, and you will feel off-balanced in your life and experience negative consequences.Therefore, understanding how to leverage both energies will help you understand the shifts that are happening at a global level to balance this energy.In this episode, we talk about a foundational “Mother Polarity” or “Master Polarity” of Masculine and Feminine Energy and how you can leverage them.We also talk about some actions to increase your masculine and feminine energies and how these energies can contribute to burnout when there is an overemphasis on one energy over the other.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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March 2, 2022
#137: Being a Transformational Community Leader During Times of Great Change with Tasha Blackmon
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Tasha Blackmon about transformational leadership and her lessons on leadership and the pandemic.Tasha is a dynamic, collaborative leader, mentor, and coach who brings more than 20 years of business operations experience to her role as President and Chief Executive Officer of Michigan’s largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), Cherry Health.During her years with Cherry Health, she has championed health justice by aggressively disrupting healthcare disparities, leading numerous large-scale expansion and development projects, and holding six positions within Cherry Health before becoming CEO in 2018.Tasha shares about Cherry Health and the role it serves in West Michigan, which provides integrated health care services to 70,000 patients.We also talk about her leadership style and some advice for those emerging individuals who are stepping into leadership.At the close of the interview, Tasha shares how COVID-19 impacted her as a leader and how she takes action to experience the positive outcomes of her professional and personal life.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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February 23, 2022
#136: From Workplace Drama to Workforce Empowerment with David Emerald
In this episode, we talk with our special guest David Emerald about his powerful frameworks, self-leadership, and transforming organizations.David Emerald is a co-founder of the Bainbridge Leadership Center (Bainbridge Island, WA). He is the author of The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic), a teaching story about Self Leadership, and has recently published his second book called 3 Vital Questions: Transforming Workplace Drama, a teaching story about workplace drama and its heavy costs to organizations.David shares the different elements of the Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT)™, including the three roles—Victim, Rescuer, and Persecutor and The Empowerment Dynamic (TED), which provides an antidote to the toxic roles of the DDT.We also talk about the 3 Vital Questions that have helped countless individuals and teams engage in productive and powerful interaction to achieve desired outcomes.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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February 16, 2022
#135: Rethinking Individual and Organizational Resilience with Dr. Sonia Udod
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Sonia Udod about her published article on rethinking resilience and its implication for healthcare leaders.Dr. Udod is the PI of Translating Evidence for Nursing LEADership (LEAD) and Health Services to Improve Outcomes Program, which focuses on enhancing nurse leader development critical to creating high-quality healthcare workplaces, leading to quality nurse, patient, and organizational outcomes.Sonia also shares her passion for enhancing nurse leader capacity in the workplace and teaching students to be effective healthcare leaders.We also discuss some strategies on how nurse leaders can promote organizational resilience while building their own individual resilience within the current Covid-19 pandemic.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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February 9, 2022
#134: What Healthcare Leaders Have to Say as COVID Continues
We know how important healthcare leaders are to the healthcare system, especially during these challenging times. If the leaders do not stay strong and healthy through the pandemic, the whole system is at risk.The thing is, many healthcare leaders feel like they are out of the boat now, drowning and barely keeping their heads above water. In fact, there is new data emerging showing a high percentage of leaders are considering leaving their positions.In this episode, we talk about what we're hearing from healthcare leaders all around the country. We also share some baby steps tips that you can do to refill your cup.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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February 2, 2022
#133: Creating Work Life Balance When You Didn’t Trust It Was Possible with Kathy de Figueiredo
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Kathy de Figueiredo about her transformational journey through our coaching programs for healthcare leaders and the impact that has had on her as a leader.Kathy de Figueiredo is a Regional Director of Quality Improvement at Baylor Scott and White Health in College Station, Texas. Kathy has held various roles in over 30 years of healthcare experience, and she’s currently responsible for quality improvement, infection prevention, clinical compliance, patient safety, and patient experience.Kathy shares her biggest challenges in creating a balance between her personal and professional life and how she recognized some of her limiting beliefs after joining the Bootcamp.We also talk about her personalized blueprint from our coaching programs and how she uses it to balance her personal and professional life.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Registration for the Leadership Survival Bootcamp closes tonight at 12 midnight EST. Click Here NOW to enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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January 26, 2022
#132: Calling all Healthcare Leaders! Work-Life Balance is Possible
You've probably heard that work-life balance doesn't exist.Or maybe you've tried to balance your personal and professional life, especially during these challenging times, but you feel like it's impossible to achieve. As healthcare leaders, we're taught to look at challenges and issues as problems to solve and we think that problem-solving is the logic we apply to all challenges we face.Are we right?The thing is, not every problem is solvable, and if you can't recognize that the challenge isn't a problem to solve, then you're going to fail over time.In this episode, we reveal that Work-Life Balance is possible and why you can achieve it as a healthcare leader.We also discuss why some problems are not solvable, what a polarity is, how they work, and how you can take a different approach to manage them.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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January 19, 2022
#131: Creating Balance: A Personal Experience with Dr. Mari Tietze
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Mari Tietze about her transformational journey through our coaching programs for healthcare leaders.Dr. Tietze is the recipient of the Myrna R. Pickard Endowed Professorship at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) College of Nursing and Health Innovation (CONHI). She also is the affiliate representing nursing at the UTA Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics.Mari shares her biggest challenges in creating a balance between her personal and professional life before joining our coaching programs.She also shares some of the significant differences she experienced after joining our Bootcamp and how she became aware of her own behaviors and early warning signs that are cues when she over-emphasizes one area of her life to the neglect of the other.We also talk about how Mari uses her personalized blueprint from our coaching program daily to balance her personal and professional life.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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January 12, 2022
#130: How to Become the CEO of Your Life
Today’s episode is all about “How to become the CEO of your life.”We believe that if you're not taking full responsibility for your life and you're blaming circumstances and making an excuse not to do the things that serve your purpose, then you're not the CEO of your life.Maybe you have a limiting belief that you don't have a choice, or you’re not in control of your own life.But if you're the CEO of your life, you can give yourself the agency to realign your purpose, you have the choice to take control and create empowering beliefs for better outcomes of your life.In this podcast, we talk about how every healthcare leader has the agency to be the CEO of their own life.We also discuss three characteristics of being a CEO and what it takes to live those characteristics and own your life.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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January 5, 2022
#129: Attention Healthcare Leaders! Busy is a Badge of Burnout
How many times do you say, “I’m fine, I’m just really busy” when people ask you how you are?Being busy becomes a status symbol as a healthcare leader.In fact, the more you can do, the more you’re asked to do, and the more you feel you’re bringing value to your team and your organization.In this podcast, we talk about why being busy is a badge of burnout, not honor. We also discuss the importance of setting boundaries for healthcare leaders and some warning signs you are wearing a badge of burnout.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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December 29, 2021
#128: Being a Transformational Leader during the Covid-19 Pandemic featuring Dr. Kevin Sneed
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Kevin Sneed, a tenured Professor and the founding Dean of the USF Health Taneja College of Pharmacy.Kevin shares his WE-CARE (Workgroup Enhancing Community Advocacy and Research Engagement) program, which helps to improve health outcomes among minority populations, increases research participation, and builds connections and trust between the community and researchers.He also mentions his partnership with different organizations like American Heart Association and REACHUP, Inc that educates African American and Latino communities on how to understand the coronavirus and prepare for the vaccine, especially during this Covid-19 pandemic.We also talk about the impact of Covid-19 on academia and universities and the importance of committing to a safe academic environment for the student learners, staff, and faculty.At the close of the interview, Kevin answered a couple of questions about his professional and personal life from our new process called the Missing Questions.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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December 22, 2021
#127: Are you a “Do the Right Thing” Leader?
Are you a “Do the Right Thing” Leader?We know healthcare leaders are overburdened and have a hard time doing the right thing.But there are courageous leaders who did the right thing and are not afraid to make decisions for their team.They are intentional in making courageous decisions and doing the right thing for themselves and their organization.In this episode, we talk about what courageous leaders do and how they make decisions to do the right thing.We also share some characteristics of courageous leaders, their values, empowering beliefs, and qualities that other leaders don’t have.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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December 15, 2021
#126: Leveraging Candor and Diplomacy While Living in a Polarized World
We have experienced some of the most challenging and polarizing times in recent history.We are exposed to different points of view and what might appear to be opposite or conflicting perspectives and values on a daily basis.Differing perspectives and points of view can be good. In this episode, we talk about recognizing when conflicting or opposing perspectives need each other to serve a bigger purpose and how that can change the conversation.One way to deal with a polarity is to understand the polarity itself of candor and diplomacy so you can deepen your understanding of other people's perspectives and skillsets.During the podcast, we also explore the importance of candor and diplomacy and how you can leverage both to support healthy communication.We also talk about some of the positive outcomes and early warnings signs of candor and diplomacy and how individuals can engage in healthy dialogue about things that matter most to them.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!
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December 8, 2021
#125: Applications of Polarity Thinking™ by Diverse Leaders with Dr. Barry Johnson
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Barry Johnson, about the book AND: Making a Difference by Leveraging Polarity, Paradox or Dilemma, Volume Two: Applications.“AND” is for people who want to make a positive difference by overcoming obstacles such as resistance to change and polarization.Barry shares, Volume 2 is a representation of the expansive application of Polarity Thinking™ from different perspectives and experiences of people skilled in leveraging polarities.In this book, different authors come from a variety of disciplines such as coaches, teachers, and consultants who share their personal stories and knowledge on how they applied Polarity Thinking™ in their work and communities.We discuss the two chapters we co-authored that include a variety of examples of common polarities in healthcare organizations and how they are frequently presented.We also share how using a framework founded in polarities can help you manage individual and system elements to create a healthy work environment.At the close of the interview, Dr. Johnson answered a couple of personal questions from our new process called the Missing Questions.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!
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December 1, 2021
#124: What Does Having Gratitude as a Core Value Look Like?
Today’s episode is all about gratitude and being grateful.We believe that practicing gratitude makes you a stronger person and a stronger healthcare leader.Gratitude is one of our six core values at MissingLogic® and in today’s episode we share how we practice gratitude in our business.We know it can be difficult to find things to be grateful for, during these challenging times.We share how we have looked at the opportunities in front of us and the positive things that have happened with gratitude.In fact, we are very grateful that we have the opportunity to help and serve healthcare leaders, like you, during these difficult times.We are very grateful to you, our listeners, our family, and our friends for supporting us throughout our journey.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!
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November 24, 2021
#123: You Have All the Time You Need to Care for You!
One of the biggest mistakes healthcare leaders make today is thinking they don't have enough time to care for themselves but have time for everybody else.We know you're pushed to the limit right now, and you're dealing with staff shortages and increasing competing demands of your priorities.In this podcast, we discuss what it really means when people say, "I don't have time for me."We talk about three behaviors that indicate you're making the mistake of believing you don't have enough time.We also share proven strategies for flipping this belief, so you can prioritize caring for yourself.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!
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November 17, 2021
#122: Healthy Work Environments in Academia and Practice featuring Dr. Liz Madigan
In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Liz Madigan about the importance of creating healthy work environments in academia and practice.Dr. Madigan is a Chief Executive Officer at Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She is also a tenured professor at the Francis Payne Bolton School of Nursing Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.Liz shares how Sigma recognizes and honors clinical facilities and academic settings that have demonstrated commitment in promoting a healthy work environment.She also talks about some of the issues like incivility, microaggressions, and bullying in academic settings and healthcare organizations.We discuss with Liz the importance of meaningful recognition for nurses, faculty, and others in support of creating a healthy work environment.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!
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November 10, 2021
#121: What Kind of Leader Do You Want to Be? One that Sacrifices or one that Thrives?
Some healthcare leaders have been thrust into a leadership role and do what’s needed for their team and organization, especially during these challenging times.We know you feel conflicted due to internal and external factors that impact you and create a chronic tension between your current reality and what you want as a leader. Are we right?The good thing is, you can choose and take control of your own inflection point so that you can move forward as a healthcare leader.In this episode, we ask you, “What kind of leader do you want to be? One that sacrifices or one that thrives?”We also talk about the importance of taking a pause to reflect, so you can see the bigger picture, take stock of your current realities, and gain clarity on what you truly desire and need.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.
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November 3, 2021
#120: Attention Healthcare Leaders! Self-care is Not Selfish
Why is self-care not selfish?It is actually the best thing you can do for your team.Think about it, when you are putting your team and their needs before your own, day after day, how often do you end up feeling tired, crabby, and drained?What kind of self-care role model are you being?It’s easy to see, you can be letting your team down by NOT prioritizing your health and well-being, is it not?In this podcast, we talk about the importance of “self-care” and how to break through some industry norms and limiting beliefs about taking care of yourself as a healthcare leader.Also, we discuss different principles and strategies to prioritize your health and well-being, so you can be a good role for your team and organization.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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October 27, 2021
#119: How to Deal with Grief During the Covid-19 Pandemic with Dr. Lori Wightman
We know many people experienced grief as a result of Covid-19, especially healthcare leaders and frontline staff in the healthcare field. Although grief is unique to each person, and no one can be compared to one another, there are patterns that significantly impact one’s mind, body, and spirit.In this episode, nurse executive Lori Wightman shares her personal experience with grief and how she handled it. In addition, she shares some strategies she identified to improve how grief is managed in the workplace.We discuss her recent article “The Next Chapter: A Leader’s Lessons Learned Through Grief,” and Lori shares how she is helping healthcare leaders and organizations handle grief and establish better support systems for employees.At the close of the interview, Lori answered a couple of personal questions from our new process called the Missing Questions.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!This self-study program is specifically designed for healthcare leaders like you, so you can find a way to care for your team without neglecting you.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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October 20, 2021
#118: Can We Create New Leadership Norms in Healthcare?
In healthcare one of the leadership norms is leaders sacrifice, they put everyone else first. This is especially true now, during these challenging times.You’ve been indoctrinated to be a servant leader, always focusing on the needs of the team, the organization, the patients and families, before giving attention to your own needs.Servant leadership is not a bad thing, until you “over-serve” and neglect yourself.With this unipolar approach of leadership, healthcare leaders end up burned out, exhausted, and empty.In this podcast, we discussed redefining leadership norms and taking advantage of our current situation to reset, relook, and reevaluate everything to create a new reality and leadership approach.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Enrollment is now open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU!In this self-study program, you will learn why neglecting yourself to care for your team will always lead to failure. You will also learn a new way to take care of your team and yourself without feeling conflicted, overwhelmed, and exhausted.Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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October 13, 2021
#117: Navigating through Crisis and Trauma with Dr Diana Hendel and Dr Mark Goulston
In this episode, we talk with co-authors Dr. Mark Goulston and Dr. Diana Hendel about their book Trauma to Triumph: A Roadmap for Leading Through Disruption (and Thriving on the Other Side). Mark and Diana share how the pandemic traumatizes healthcare leaders, employees, and organizations, sending everyone into survival mode. In their book, Mark and Diana said that if the crisis is not "named and claimed" as trauma and managed effectively, it's sure to linger on in the form of chronic stress and anxiety. And left unspoken and unaddressed, blame, shame, and guilt often permeate the organization's culture and erode its ability to thrive in the future.We discussed how trauma affects the individuals and the organization's culture, how institutions can recover from the pandemic, and how healthcare leaders create stability amid uncertainty and traumatic events to become stronger and better on the other side.At the close of the interview, Mark and Diana answered a couple of questions from our new Q&A process called the Missing Questions.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!If you have questions for us email your questions to [email protected] is now open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU! Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!In this training, you will learn why neglecting yourself to take care of your team will always lead to failure. You will develop a new skill that will not only help you support your team but help both you and your team recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and become more resilient.SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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October 6, 2021
#116: How to Create a Vision for Your Professional and Personal Life
Do you have a vision for your life personally and professionally? In the work we do with healthcare leaders we often find they don’t have a clear vision for their life. Without a clear vision it’s difficult to feel personally aligned, to make mindful choices, or to know what actions to take. As Yogi Berra says, “You got to be careful, if you don’t know where you are going, ‘cause you might not get there”. You end up feeling frustrated, full of regret, and wondering “how did I get here?” In today’s episode we are sharing with you how to create a clear vision for your personal and professional life, so you can be a TRU (Thriving, Resilient, Unstoppable) healthcare leader.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Other Resources You May Enjoy:
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September 29, 2021
#115: Sustaining Positive Benefits from In-Person and Virtual Care featuring Bruce Brandes
There were a few silver linings in the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, we are going to talk with our friend and colleague Bruce Brandes about one of the most significant outcomes of the pandemic, which was the advancement of telehealth. Bruce helps us gain a deeper understanding of virtual care, what it is, and why it is an important component of the future of healthcare and a critical factor in healthcare transformation. We talk about the natural tension between virtual care and in-person care and why it’s not an option to make an either/or choice.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Other Resources You May Enjoy:Self-Study Opportunity: Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU! Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!Click the title to download our free perspective paper:
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September 22, 2021
#114: Top 10 Secrets to Creating and Sustaining Strong Partnerships
As Meg Wheatly says, “Relationships are everything!” There isn’t much more stressful than a strained or difficult relationship at work or at home. If you’re doing one of the following things 1) not making relationships a priority, 2) struggling with how to build a strong relationship, or 3) thinking relationships are “soft, fluffy stuff” and you don’t have time for that, then we guarantee your relationships are strained, your energy is drained, and you’re unhappy. We’ve been blessed with strong partnerships in all aspects of our lives and in this episode we share with you our top ten secrets to strong partnerships.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Other Resources You May Enjoy:
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September 15, 2021
#113: Well-Being and Culture Transformation with Dr. Christine Pabico and Paulette Sepe
The battle against clinician burnout is real. You may or may not realize there was a significant problem with clinician burnout prior to the pandemic and now on top of that clinicians are experiencing significant mental health and PTSD challenges as a result of their experiences during the COVID pandemic. This is not a battle individuals can fight alone. System supports, infrastructures, and leadership are critical. In this episode we speak with Dr. Christine Pabico and Paulette Sepe about what ANCC and the Pathway to Excellence Program® does to support clinician well-being.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!If you have questions for us email your questions to [email protected] closes at Midnight for the Leadership Survival Bootcamp, September 13-17, 2021The Leadership Survival Bootcamp is a virtual Bootcamp designed to enable healthcare leaders like you create an individualized leadership survival blueprint, so they can be resilient, feel healthy and have an impact on their team and in their organization without being burned-out or feeling conflicted and exhausted.Click here to learn more and register before it’s too late!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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September 8, 2021
#112: Three Characteristics Every TRU Healthcare Leader Embodies
Why is it that some healthcare leaders are barely surviving the COVID pandemic and recovery phase, and others are thriving? If you are barely surviving then you have let go of your dream or desires, you’re settling or telling yourself what you have is good enough, or you’re just keeping your head down and moving forward the best you can. Does that sound familiar? In this episode we are talking about being a TRU Healthcare Leader and the characteristics they embody that set them apart from those that are only surviving. You’ll learn how they do it and how you can, too!For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!If you have questions for us email your questions to [email protected] are Open!
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September 1, 2021
#111: Healthy Eating and Balancing Physical and Mental Well-Being with Dr. Katie Eliot
When it comes to well-being and living a balanced life, two of the top outcomes healthcare leaders we work with identify as desirable are to live a healthy lifestyle and to eat healthy food. These two outcomes are on almost everyone’s Blueprint in our bootcamp. What we know is if they take the actions necessary to each healthy it won’t be out of balance in their lives. So, we are going to an expert in today’s episode to identify what eating healthy really means. You’ll also learn what impact nutrition has on your physical and mental well-being.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!If you have questions for us email your questions to [email protected] are Open!
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August 25, 2021
#110: How to Recognize When You are Playing the Victim Role and Shift to Being a Creator
If you are feeling stuck, fearful, or disappointed, you are doing one or more of the following things. Your attention is focused on what is happening or not happening around you, you’re convinced your circumstances are the reason you don’t have what you want, and you say things like “it’s never going to change”. Are we right? Letting your circumstances drive your results puts you in “victim mode” and it is a vicious and unconscious cycle that keeps you swirling. In this episode, we talk about how to break the vicious cycle and become the creator of your life.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Other Resources You May Enjoy:Self-Study Opportunity: Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU! Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!Click the title to download our free perspective paper: The 3 Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying To Achieve Work Life BalanceIf you have questions for us email your questions to [email protected] Events:
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August 18, 2021
#109: Escalating Domestic Work at Home and the Impact on Women featuring Dr. Daniel Carlson
The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on all of us. There wasn’t anything in our day-to-day lives that wasn’t impacted. Adults with children faced many challenges. They experienced, changes in their work and home lives and in the structures that provide them support. Some were impacted more than others and in different ways. The conflict between work and home had a significant impact on women in the workforce. Today we talk with Tracy’s son, Dr. Daniel Carlson, about the research he and his colleagues conducted and what they learned about the impact the pandemic had on women in the workforce. Dan will also share what kinds of structural supports can provide relief.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Other Resources You May Enjoy:Self-Study Opportunity: Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU! Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!Click the title to download our free perspective paper: The 3 Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying To Achieve Work Life BalanceIf you have questions for us email your questions to [email protected] Events:
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August 11, 2021
#108: Reduce Negative Tension in Your Life and Leverage the Predictability of Polarities
Tension exists in all aspects of our life. Many of the tensions we experience are perpetual, in other words, they never go away. When the tension isn’t managed or leveraged, it can feel heavy or negative. You may or may not already be realizing, if the tension isn’t going away, your best chance for a positive outcome is to learn to manage or leverage the tension. In this episode, we have fun combining two of our passions (Polarity Intelligence™ & the game of golf) to show you how to leverage chronic tensions.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Other Resources You May Enjoy:Self-Study Opportunity: Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU! Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!Click the title to download our free perspective paper: The 3 Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying To Achieve Work Life BalanceIf you have questions for us email your questions to [email protected] Events:
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August 4, 2021
#107: Well-Being and Dynamic Balance with Dr. Vicky Tiase
Improving the well-being of clinicians and leaders is on the minds and agenda in many organizations. It is also a focal point for professional and national organizations. One of the key elements of wellness includes the dynamic balance of activity and rest. Doesn’t matter what profession you represent or what role you’re in, all clinicians and leaders need balance in these areas to thrive. So today, we are going to look at creating this dynamic balance with Dr. Vicky Tiase. Vicky is going to share her unique insights based on her experience and perspective as a professional athlete, coach, and a nurse leader. As a bonus, Vicky will share some insights on the inclusion of well-being as an outcome in the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 Report. For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastIf you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Other Resources You May Enjoy:Self-Study Opportunity: Enrollment is open to our Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU! Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!Click the title to download our free perspective paper: The 3 Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying To Achieve Work Life BalanceIf you have questions for us email your questions to [email protected] Upcoming Events: Ultimate Dynamic Balance Bootcamp, September 13-17, 2021The Ultimate Dynamic Balance Bootcamp is a virtual bootcamp designed to enable healthcare leaders like you to learn about and apply a proven strategy that will allow you to balance your professional and personal life, make a difference at work, and experience more joy, without feeling exhausted and overwhelmed!Click here to join the waitlist and be the first to know when the doors are open!SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
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July 28, 2021
#106: Is Problem Solving the Most Valuable Skill a Leader Can Have?
One of the core characteristics of a strong leader is they are an excellent problem solver. As clinicians you are also trained to solve problems for the patients/clients you serve. But what we’ve come to learn is not all problems are solvable, and problem-solving skills don’t work on all the challenges that leaders face. So, then what do you do? Today, we are going to tell you what you can do. We are going to talk about an essential competency every leader must have to overcome unsolvable problems and achieve sustainable outcomes.
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July 21, 2021
#105: Managing the Tensions Underneath Burnout: Exploring the Individual and Organizational Responsibility
Burnout continues to be a significant challenge in healthcare for clinicians and leaders.
In this episode we explore addressing burnout for clinicians and leaders from the perspective of individual responsibility and organizational responsibility.
We talk about the numerous tensions and values that lie under the surface of burnout and the significance of being able to distinguish between what is a problem that can be solved and a tension that must be managed.
We also discuss the system level changes that can impact burnout and the individual factors that are necessary to combat burnout.
As we close the episode, we share our thoughts about the best place to begin to address burnout and manage the underlying tensions.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastNEW Opportunity: Enrollment is now open to our NEW Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU! Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode. All you must do is email your question to [email protected] If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!
July 14, 2021
#104: Living Leadership Principles: A Look into the Past, Present, and Future of the National Academies of Practice featuring Dr. Rick Weisbarth and Dr. Jody Frost
In this episode we interview Dr. Rick Weisbarth, the president, and Dr. Jody Frost, the immediate past president of the National Academies of Practice (NAP).
You may or may not be familiar with NAP, so we begin the interview with Rick introducing NAP, why it was established, and why it exists today.
We talk about healthy partnerships and some of the partnerships NAP has established to promote interprofessional collaboration and represent the interprofessional perspective on national initiatives.
Rick and Jody share their experience with leveraging dialogue to support meaningful conversations within the NAP leadership team and as leaders.
Rick and Jody also talk about the impact of Polarity Thinking™ and having a polarity mindset has had on how the NAP executive council addressed challenges over the past few years and how this new skill has impacted how they lead.
Lastly, as we end the interview, we talk about how NAP intends to impact interprofessional healthcare now and into the future.
You can see this episode is all about applying leadership skills such as healthy relationships, dialogue, and Polarity Thinking™ and the impact it can have on you as a leader and on your leadership teams, can’t you? Listen now!For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastNEW: Enrollment is now open to our NEW Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU! Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode. All you must do is email your question to [email protected] If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!
July 7, 2021
#103: Mastering Feedback to Both Give and Receive it in a Healthy Way featuring Beth Wonson
In this episode, we interview Beth Wonson about her book Mastering Feedback: Everything You’ve Never Been Told About How to Give Feedback”.
Beth shares why she wrote the book and the 4- step process that can help managers give and receive feedback.
Beth also talks about the Navigating Challenging Dialogue Framework she’s created.
Toward the end of the interview, we discuss the impact of the pandemic on communication and feedback as well as the trends Beth is seeing in work environments.
You probably already realize this is an important interview to listen to for anyone who gives or receives feedback, which is most of us! Don’t hesitate, listen now!For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastNEW: Enrollment is now open to our NEW Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU! Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode. All you must do is email your question to [email protected] If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!
June 30, 2021
#102: How to use Polarity Intelligence™ to Invite Differing Perspectives and Create Team Psychological Safety
In this episode, we explore how Polarity Intelligence™ supports Team Psychological Safety.
We discuss how to invite the voices of those with differing perspectives and look for any interdependencies of those perspectives.
We also talk about advocacy and the role it plays in creating an environment of inclusion.
As we close the episode we share the risks and benefits leaders face when they do or don’t use Polarity Intelligence™ to create an environment of Team Psychological Safety.
We could tell you this episode is full of pearls of wisdom, but we won’t, we’ll let you discover that for yourself. Go ahead and listen now.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastNEW Opportunity: Enrollment is now open to our NEW Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU! Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode. All you must do is email your question to [email protected] If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!
June 23, 2021
#101: Promoting Mental and Emotional Well-being through Peer Support featuring Dr. Jo Shapiro
Dr. Jo Shapiro was the founding Director of the Center for Professionalism and Peer Support at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is an associate professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School..
Dr. Shapiro saw early on how the culture of medicine needed to better support physicians and how physicians could support each other. The center was intentionally designed to provide practical applications through programs that have become models for other institutions. Dr. Shapiro continues to educate and assist organizations in developing specific programmatic and educational approaches, such as peer support, well-being programs, professionalism initiatives, and conflict management.
We are so excited to bring Dr. Shapiro on to the show to find out why peer support is such a powerful solution to emotional well-being. Tune in as we explore organizational change, how to best support leaders, give people agency, combat isolation and how we can all be partners, not victims, in organizational change.
You may or may not realize this yet, but this episode is filled with pearls of wisdom and information that all leaders can benefit from, so don’t hesitate, listen now! For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastNEW: Enrollment is now open to our NEW Self-Study Program, Caring for Others Without Neglecting YOU! Click Here NOW to learn more and enroll!We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode. All you must do is email your question to [email protected] If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!
June 16, 2021
#100: Celebrating 100 Episodes with a Peak Behind the Scenes
This 100th episode marks a major milestone in Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast history.
Our core values include celebration and gratitude, so we are celebrating and expressing our gratitude in this episode!
We are very grateful for our listeners and have thoroughly enjoyed producing the last 99 episodes of the podcast!
During the episode you get to meet our Sound Doctor and our Personal Assistants who happen to be our husbands! The show wouldn’t go on without the support of these guys!
We also share some BFF stories and vacation stories as well, and if you’ve been listening to us for any length of time, you probably already know you don’t want to miss these!
Thank you for listening and sharing the podcast with others!
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June 9, 2021
#99: Supporting Well-Being and Interprofessional Collaboration with the Pathway to Excellence® Program featuring Dr. Jane McCurley and Dr. Val Morrison
In this episode we interview Dr. Jane McCurley and Dr. Val Morrison, Commissioners for the American Nursing Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Pathway to Excellence® Program.
The Pathway to Excellence® is an ANCC designation. It focuses on six standards to support culture and practice environments including different healthcare environments such as long-term care facilities and CVS MinuteClinic®.
Jane shares with us the origins of the Pathway to Excellence® and why it was developed.
Jane and Val talk about their journey as leaders in Pathway to Excellence® hospitals and as commissioners.
During the interview we also talk about what the standards are and how the standards support interprofessional collaboration and how leaders from the different health professions can engage in the program.
One of the standards in the program is well-being. Val and Jane share how healthcare organizations meet this standard in innovative and unique ways.
We close the interview talking about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the significance of the well-being standard and the need for leaders and organizations to be vigilant about personal and professional well-being and resilience.
You may or may not realize this yet, but this episode is filled with pearls of wisdom and information that all leaders can benefit from, so don’t hesitate, listen now!
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June 2, 2021
#98: Leveraging the Power of Humble Inquiry to Transform Relationships with Dr. Edgar and Peter Schein
In this episode, we interview Dr. Edgar Schein and his son Peter about the second edition of their book Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling. They share a little about the book and why they wrote the second edition.
Ed and Peter describe why Humble Inquiry is not just a process but an “attitude”.
Ed talks about the different levels of relationships and shares how Humble Inquiry can be leveraged to raise our levels of relationship.
During the interview we also discuss the relationship and need for balance between Certainty and Clarity as well as Competition and Collaboration and how both relate to Telling and Humble Inquiry.
We close the interview with Ed sharing how leaders will benefit from applying Humble Inquiry every day.
You probably already realize this episode is full of wisdom that can benefit everyone. So, you can see, why it makes sense to listen now, can’t you?
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May 26, 2021
#97: Overcoming the Tension Between Completing Tasks and Practicing at your full Scope of Practice
If you are like many of the clinicians and healthcare leaders we have worked with over the past 30 years, you have experienced the tension between completing routine tasks and practicing at the top of your license or delivering your full scope of practice since the beginning of your career!
The tension is real. And the struggle to balance this tension is significant because safe, quality care is dependent on both.
As a leader, you probably already realize one is not more important than the other.
In this episode, we talk about the habits that influence this tension between tasks and scope of practice. Florence Nightingale recognized the importance of understanding habits more than 150 years ago when she said, “This hospital is so busy, in such a hurry that we are falling into bad habits before we are aware.”
Toward the close of the episode, we share how healthcare leaders can begin to support their teams to leverage both the fulfillment of routine tasks and practice to their full scope of practice.
It’s obvious that you realize this tension isn’t going away, so listen to the episode and get a fresh perspective on how to manage it!
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May 19, 2021
#96: Living with COVID: One Man's Experience as a Patient and a Healthcare Executive featuring Kevin Browne
In this episode we interview Dr. Kevin Browne, Vice-President and Deputy Chief Nursing Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK).
Kevin shares with us his incredible story of experiencing COVID as a patient in his own hospital and as a nurse leader in New York City. His personal story was so remarkable he ended up on the NBC Today Show!
Kevin describes his quest to strengthen the commitment of MSK to evidence-based practice and his experience applying evidence to his own care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the interview we also talk about the greatest challenges leaders have faced and are facing when it comes to their sustaining their own well-being and work-life balance.
Kevin also shares some of the approaches he is taking personally to maintain well-being and work-life balance.
We close the interview with Kevin sharing what he is doing to support leaders and staff during these persistently challenging times.
You probably already realize that Kevin has a remarkable story and experience worth listening to. Listen now!
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May 12, 2021
#95: COVID-19 Pandemic: The Thunderstorm of Perpetual Challenges and the Silver Linings Experienced by Healthcare Leaders featuring Dr. Robyn Begley
The past year has been challenging for everyone, but it has been especially challenging for those working in the healthcare system.
The front-line clinicians and staff have experienced extraordinary challenges and trauma, and the healthcare leaders who support them have also faced challenges they never imagined.
“I think that our healthcare system and our healthcare leaders have been remarkable in their response,” says Robyn Begley.
During the episode we interview Dr. Robyn Begley, the Chief Executive Officer of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL). We have an opportunity to talk with Robyn about the longitudinal study AONL conducted in July 2020 and repeated in January and February of 2021 to examine the impact of COVID on nursing leadership.
Despite all the challenges, there have also been, what some would call “silver linings” in the chaos and challenges that have blanketed and rained down on the healthcare system. Robyn talks about some of those “silver linings” with us.
Robyn shares some of the greatest challenges she’s seen healthcare leaders experience over the past 14 months. We also talk about some of the greatest challenges faced by leaders when it comes to their own well-being and work life balance.
During the interview Robyn also describes some of the strategies AONL is putting in place to support healthcare leaders.
As we wrap up the interview Robyn shares some words of gratitude and encouragement for healthcare leaders.
You may or may not realize this is an episode you must listen to, so don’t wait. Listen now!
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May 5, 2021
#94: Individual and Team Competency: An Essential Element of Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
Creating interprofessional collaborative practice environments has been a long road!
The challenge has never been how to work collaboratively in emergent situations; we can do that all day long. The challenge is sustaining it once the emergent situation has passed.
Successful and sustainable interprofessional collaboration requires leaders to leverage individual competency and team competency in the healthcare workforce.
In this episode we talk about the accountabilities healthcare leaders have and the challenges they face in leveraging interprofessional collaboration to fulfill their accountabilities.
You probably already realize this is an important topic for any healthcare leader who is interested in teamwork. Go ahead and listen now!
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April 28, 2021
#93: (Encore Episode) Unleashing the Power of the Margin and Mission Polarity in Complex Care featuring Lauran Hardin
To say vulnerable populations have been impacted significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic is an understatement. Yet, at the same time, communities and businesses are partnering to develop innovative solutions to address the disparities that plague this population.
“The pandemic is teaching us how interdependent we are on each other, and how creative we can be to solve things locally.” says Lauran.
After 2020, when it comes to managing the margin and serving the mission, everything and nothing is the same, and that’s why we thought it would be appropriate to revisit this interview with Lauran Hardin. During the interview we discuss the over-arching polarity of Margin and Mission.
Everyone is impacted by this polarity.
Both Margin and Mission must be present for the system to be sustainable and provide the healthcare we need.
In this interview with Lauran, we look at this polarity within the context of complex care and social needs.
Lauran is a leader at the National Center for Complex Care and Social Needs. The center is the home for complex care and is transforming care for people with complex health and social needs.
Lauran is guiding and coaching leaders every day out in the field to manage this polarity. Her stories and insights are enlightening and inspiring.
Lauran shares with listeners why it’s important to understand the importance of the margin and mission polarity when creating programs that impact utilization and revenue.
Powerful change and transformation can occur when you understand and marshal the power of both sides of the margin and mission polarity. Lauran shares some stories that will leave you with a feeling of hope.
Join us to learn from Lauran as she shares case studies and outcomes from the world of complex care and social needs.
The wisdom Lauran shares is profound! Listen now!
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April 21, 2021
#92: (Encore Episode) How Leaders Can Leverage a Polarity Mindset to Develop Strong Teams and Cultivate Psychological Safety featuring Diane Hanson
Leaders have been facing one of the most difficult times in their careers. And it’s not coming to an end any time soon.
Let’s face it. Leadership is not easy on a normal day let alone during a pandemic! If you are feeling guilty, exhausted, frustrated, and conflicted then you are an overwhelmed healthcare leader.
Overwhelmed healthcare leaders are looking for new tools and skills to enhance their effectiveness, change the conversations they’re having, and address the unprecedented challenges they face, while supporting their teams.
That’s why we thought it would be appropriate to share this encore episode and interview with our dear friend and colleague Diane Hanson.
We were blessed to interview Diane Hanson. Diane has leveraged polarities in her personal and professional life for over 20 years and has a lot of wisdom to share with us.
Today we are talking about Polarity Thinking™ as an essential leadership skill because Thriving, Resilient, Unstoppable (TRU) leaders don’t need quick fixes that fail, they need new ways of thinking and approached that lead them to long-lasting outcomes.
“Once you understand and believe in the logic and predictability of Polarity Thinking™ you are able to move toward sustainable outcomes” says Diane.
Diane shares many stories of how she’s leveraged polarities personally, professionally and as a community leader.
Diane believes a great place to start practicing your polarity thinking skills is with personal polarities like Work & Home or Self Care & Others Care. Look at what’s showing up in your life through a polarity lens and then examine your perspectives, preferences, and fears to gather deeper insights.
Diane notes, “We tend to take care of others before our self. The Self Care & Others Care polarity is a good one for leaders to start with to address burnout.”
Join us as we discuss with Diane how leaders can leverage polarities to strengthen their leadership skills, enhance teamwork, and cultivate psychological safety in the workplace.
The wisdom Diane shares is profound! Listen now!
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April 14, 2021
#91: The Road to Well-Being: It's Personal and Requires Patience, Persistence, and Practice featuring Dr. Seena Haines
It was so inspiring to interview and dialogue with Dr. Seena Haines about well-being.
As we begin our interview, Seena shares with us her personal health professions journey, which leads to a brief discussion on how our experiences and stories inform who we are and what we do.
Seena shares her passion for well-being began with her own personal struggles and the desire to pay it forward. She informs us that well-being is subjective and influenced by multiple factors including psychosocial resources and support.
During the interview we talk about COVID and the impact it’s having on well-being. Seena shares the most important well-being dimension is human and social connections and how we have all been missing those connections which is impacting resilience.
Seena describes the numerous benefits of yoga and what a well coach is and what they focus on and how they help individuals reach their wellness plan.
Seena also shares a fundamental principle that when it comes to health and well-being patience, persistence, and practice create permanence. She also believes it is personal. Focusing on our own personal accomplishments and not comparing ourselves to others is important because our progress is exponential, it just takes time.
From Seena’s perspective work life integration requires attention and intention daily. She shares she manages this by setting 2-3 priorities each day, pockets of buffer time weekly, schedules personal oasis time in the week for play, advance planning, along with numerous other strategies.
Speaking to leaders and organizations, Seena describes some actions they can take such as job crafting, engaging employees in redefining responsibilities and duties, and having a firm grasp on the relationship between clinician well-being, patient care, and safety.
Seena’s parting message for individual healthcare professionals is “it is not selfish or self- seeking to put your self-care in your top priorities. Just as we are told on a plane that we need to put our own oxygen mask on first before helping others, we are better positioned to sustain and overcome these potholes in life when we carve the time needed to care for ourselves mentally and physically.” We couldn’t agree more!
As you probably already realize this is a delightful and informative interview, so don’t hesitate and listen now!
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April 7, 2021
#90: (Encore Episode) The Healthcare Leader as a Role Model for Self-Care: Caring for Yourself and Caring for the Team featuring Dr. Jeanne Roode
One of the consistent messages we are hearing from overwhelmed leaders is they want to do more to care for their team, but they are neglecting themselves in the process.
A leader’s well-being doesn’t have to be in competition with caring for the team. You can care for you and your team.
Since this is such a prominent theme in our conversations with leaders today, we thought it would be appropriate to share this encore episode and interview with our dear friend and colleague Dr. Jeanne Roode.
During our interview we discuss the crux tension or polarity of taking care of self and taking care of others. Jeanne shares her four-year journey on the road to sustainable well-being and what she has learned along the way.
Jeanne recognizes that tensions or polarities like these can significantly impact healthcare leaders, especially if they are unaware of them or do not know how to manage them.
From Jeanne’s perspective, 100% commitment to your well-being is not something you wake up one day and decide, it is an evolution. She describes it as, “a number of moments in your life in which you learn and gain wisdom, that come together to one day be enough to push through the barriers.”
Jeanne’s doctoral work focused on the health and well-being of nurses and nurse managers. She studied the self-care practices of nurses and found their lowest scoring areas were nutrition and exercise. In her study, nurse managers had the lowest scores in stress management as well as attending to their own stress and learning more about it. Jeanne has learned what nurses don’t understand, and that is if they don’t attend to their own self-care, and focus on others instead, they are putting everything at risk including attending to others.
Jeanne shares some of the ways she’s found to care for her team while caring for herself is to be a role model, provide appreciation and recognition of their stories, and take interest in their personal and professional success.
Some recommendations for healthcare leaders engaged in day-to-day COVID-19 planning or management is to trust each other to carry the work, encourage self-care, and share stories of what you are doing to take care of yourself.
How you take care of yourself as a leader cannot be hidden. Your valuing of self-care shows in everything you do. You are being watched and whether you are aware of it or not, you are a role model for self-care.
The wisdom Jeanne shares is profound! Listen now!
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March 31, 2021
#89: (Encore Episode) A Personal and Professional Story about Clinician Burnout and Resilience featuring Dr. Miguel Paniagua
When we did this initial interview with Dr. Paniagua we had no idea that within a few months we would be facing a global pandemic that would not only add to the stress and mental health challenges healthcare clinicians were already facing but would lead to a parallel pandemic. In this interview Dr. Miguel Paniagua shared his personal and professional story about burnout, clinician well-being, and resilience. The interview is as pertinent today as it was a little over a year ago. There are many healthcare clinicians today, like Dr. Paniagua, who have or are currently experiencing burnout and there are many clinicians who are struggling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a result of the trauma they experienced at the front line during the COVID pandemic. Clinician burnout is a unique and personal journey for anyone who experiences it.Lives are at stake! Not just clinician’s lives but patient’s lives.We now know that poor provider wellness leads to medical errors. We are fortunate to have Dr. Paniagua to share his personal experience, hitting rock bottom and how it has informed his current work. Professionally, Dr. Paniagua is leading efforts at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) to understand the stress of high-stake exams and the effect on student well-being, which he shares with us during the interview. Fortunately, during the pandemic, progress has continued at the NBME (see the link below the show notes).Join us for this enlightening conversation with Dr. Paniagua as we talk about the realities of clinician burnout and the system and individual factors that can support clinician well-being and resilience.For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastTo get our FREE perspective paper, The Three Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance Click Here now!We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode. All you must do is email your question to [email protected] If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!
March 24, 2021
#88: Interprofessional Education and Practice Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow featuring Dr. Andrea Pfeifle
In this episode we talk with Dr. Andrea Pfeifle, about the history and future of interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice (IPCP), her experiences as a leader in today’s environments, and some of the barriers that have inhibited progress.
Andrea shares her interprofessional journey and a little of how a special relationship with a young boy and his family ignited her love affair with interprofessional collaboration. She also tells how an invitation, from the Dean of Medicine at University of Kentucky, to lead an interprofessional education initiative at the university launched her interprofessional leadership career and changed her life forever.
In the interview Andrea shares her perspective on how IPE and IPCP have advanced in the last ten years. Some examples she shares are the transformation of health professions education, the development and dissemination of interprofessional collaborative practice competencies, expansion of IPE across universities and colleges, and the establishment of the National Center of Interprofessional Practice and Education.
When it comes to factors that have helped foster IPE and IPCP over the years Andrea, shares with our listeners she feels there is a sense intuitively that it’s the “right thing to do” and it “feels right”, which makes it easier to engage people as champions. Many key stakeholders and groups have engaged in the effort in the last ten years and some key publications have also contributed to making it happen as well.
There have been some barriers along the way, too! Andrea talks about some of the barriers including the implicit bias that lies beneath the healthcare system and shapes the models of care, decisions, reimbursement, and structure of healthcare. Another significant challenge Andrea mentions is scalability.
We discuss the need for simultaneous action to move IPE and IPCP forward and the importance of having infrastructures, education and practice partnerships, and outcome measurement.
At the close of the interview Andrea shares her hope over the next 10 years is that integrated team practice is the standard and it’s designed with patients, families, and learners.
This interview includes a remarkable synthesis of the efforts and actions taken to advance IPE and IPCP and is full of important information describing the current state. If you’re interested in IPE and IPCP you will want to stop what you are doing and listen now!
For full show notes and links, visit:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
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March 17, 2021
#87 ENCORE Episode The Unsolvable, Unavoidable, and Indestructible Tension Between Health AND Economy & Individual Freedom AND the Common Good with Dr. Barry Johnson
We didn’t think when we conducted this interview back in June of 2020 that we would still be facing significant challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
This episode is as relevant now as it was when we originally recorded it.
During this episode we interview our dear friend and colleague Dr. Barry Johnson about two crux polarities/tensions we are facing as a nation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The two polarities/tensions we discuss during the interview are Health And Economy and Individual Freedom And the Common Good. These two polarities/tensions impact every person in the United States.
The interview is based on two Op-Ed pieces included in Barry’s new book, AND Making a difference by leveraging polarity, paradox, or dilemma- Volume One: Foundations.
This interview can change how you think about these two tensions that we are experiencing daily in our communities and in the country.
We think it’s safe to say we all want a country with healthy people and a healthy economy and at the same time there is a fear that as the pandemic continues we will end up with more unhealthy people and further insult to a declining economy in our country.
The truth is these polarities/tensions were present before the COVID-19 pandemic, and we must manage them now and after the pandemic.
The question is, what can we learn now, during the pandemic, to help us manage them in future?
That is the purpose of this podcast, to help us learn to see these tensions through a new lens, explore why it is important to manage them, and identify how we can manage them better in the future.
A few considerations before listening:
If this is your first time listening to the podcast, you may find it helpful to listen to Episode #1 where we explain polarities before listening to this episode.
The Op-Ed pieces are available below the show notes and if you are in a location where it is possible, we encourage you to download both pieces before you listen to the episode. Barry refers to the Polarity Map® in the Op-Ed pieces during the interview, so it will be helpful to have them in hand.
There isn’t anyone in the Unites States who can escape the impact of these two polarities. We urge you to listen to this episode now and share it with your family, friends, colleagues, and communities.
For full show notes and links, visit: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
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March 10, 2021
#86 Helping Healthcare Heroes Heal from the Trauma of the Pandemic featuring Dr. Mark Goulston and Dr. Diana Hendel
In this episode we talk with co-authors, Dr. Mark Goulston and Dr. Diana Hendel, about their book Why Cope When You Can Heal? How Healthcare Heroes of COVID-19 Can Recover from PTSD.
In their book, Mark and Diana paint the picture of the “perfect storm for trauma” that is being experienced by healthcare workers today.
In the interview Diana shares her perspective that healthcare workers are the grittiest, toughest, most resilient people in our society. But we are living in the downside of our societal “just get over it” culture and aren’t giving equal attention to the processing which is essential for healing.
We discuss why it’s important to bear witness to this moment in history and to not “rush past the tragedies that have been experienced.” Diana describes the numerous experiences healthcare workers have had during the pandemic that have contributed to the experience of moral injury and traumatic stress.
Mark and Diana also share their perspectives on the pending serious mental health and PTSD crisis that is inevitable in the healthcare system.
At the close of the interview Diana shares some words of wisdom for healthcare leaders regarding what is and will be required by leaders during these traumatic times.
This is an interview jam packed with priceless information for anyone who is working in healthcare today. Stop what you are doing and listen now!To get our FREE perspective paper, TheThree Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance Click Here now!
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March 3, 2021
#85 ENCORE Episode: How to Make A Positive Difference in the World and Stop Making False Either/Or Choices featuring Dr. Barry Johnson
We are thrilled to provide this Encore episode of our interview with our dear friend and mentor Dr. Barry Johnson. Barry is the author of AND: Making a Difference by Leveraging Polarity, Paradox, or Dilemma. Volume One: Foundations.
AND is for people interested in making a positive difference in the world or in any part of their life as a citizen, a family member, or an individual within an organization.
Volume One of AND covers the application of fundamental polarities from different system perspectives and how different polarities show up in the brain. Barry suggests learning about polarities is easiest when you work from the smallest system up. So, beginning with polarities that have meaning for you as an individual enables you to see quickly how the same polarity is applicable across other levels of the system.
During our interview with Barry, we explore how Both/And thinking overcomes resistance to change and polarization and is an essential step in making a difference. We also discuss how misdiagnosing polarities as problems and how leaders pay a price twice when this occurs.
You probably already realize, if you want to make a difference in the world understanding polarities is essential and this book is a must read! Go ahead and listen to this thought- provoking interview now!
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February 24, 2021
#84 The Importance of Creating Healthy Workplaces That Bring Out the Best in People featuring Moe Carrick
Would you like to lead or work in a healthy work environment?
Eliminating toxic work cultures and replacing them with healthy work environments is no small feat but it’s something we share a passion for with Moe Carrick the author of Bravespace Workplace. It was such a pleasure to talk with Moe. In the episode she speaks about her experiences in creating Bravespaces, what makes a workplace toxic and how workplace toxicity hurts the individuals within the environment.
We also talk about healthcare and the stress the healthcare system is under and the meta challenges healthcare leaders are facing in addition to COVID. Moe reveals with the growth of healthcare systems and the numbers of mergers and acquisitions occurring, it’s important to remember people connect in small groups or communities and they may not be able to thrive in the larger system.
Another topic we discuss include the role of technology in the workplace and the ongoing need for humans regarding healing, feeling, and connecting. We explore the role of Human Resources (HR) in creating healthy work cultures. Also, Moe shares her thoughts about informal leaders and formal leaders and the characteristics and skills they both need now and in the future.
This is an interview jam packed with insights for anyone who is interested in creating or working in a healthy workplace. Stop what you are doing and listen now!For full show notes and links, visit: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
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February 17, 2021
#83 ENCORE Episode: New Lens and New Day: Stop Solving the Same Problems Over and Over Again
Do you ever wonder why you keep experiencing and solving the same problems over and over again?
Every day feels like Ground Hog Day!
If you are like other healthcare leaders who are excellent and well-regarded problem solvers, you’re frustrated and a little embarrassed.
Well, we were too! Good news- you’re in the right place if you want to leave that all behind!
In this encore of our very first podcast episode, we share our story, how we were “mad as hell” and how we chose to stop the madness and do something about it.
Tune in as we introduce you to Polarity Thinking™ the MISSING LOGIC in healthcare. Find out how using a polarity lens to examine your repetitive challenges can prevent you from wasting time, money, and resources.
Join the movement!You probably already realize this is an important topic for any leader who is interested in new approaches to repetitive problems. Go ahead and listen now! Visit the show notes here for more: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
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February 10, 2021
#82 Our Healthcare Future: The Complexity, Challenges, and Constraints featuring Susan Dentzer
It was a pleasure to talk with Susan Dentzer about the important work she is doing at the Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University, the complexity of healthcare, and some of the challenges the healthcare system and leaders are facing today.
Areas of focus for the Center have been health system transformation and specifically the transition from volume to value payment, biopharmaceuticals, medical products/devices, global innovation, and most recently health equity.
Early in the interview Susan shares that before COVID, in her role as Senior Policy Fellow, she was interested in value-based payment and opportunities for delivery system transformation. More specifically she was interested in moving healthcare closer to the people leveraging technology rather than brining people into the healthcare environment. Spreading health into people and the communities to improve population health was another interest she held.
Susan reveals one of the things that she has focused on more since COVID is telehealth, how it is being utilized now, what’s working and not working, and the path forward.
During the episode we discuss the lessons being learned about telehealth, and the challenges yet to be overcome as we move past the COVID pandemic. We also talk about how telehealth is one-half of an interdependent relationship with the other half representing the ability to provide face-to-face and hands-on care when needed. We dialogue about how the tension between this pair shows up as resistance and fears.
During the episode Susan shares her thoughts about the current healthcare system business model, which is deeply rooted in fee-for-service, and how it creates a barrier to healthcare delivery transformation.
Susan was the editor of the book “Health Care Without Walls: A Roadmap for Reinventing U.S. Health Care System” prepared by the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation(NEHI). She shares some background on the book and why it was written.
Another topic we discussed during the interview is the need to transform education of future clinicians to prepare them for the delivery of care without walls, innovation, and the need for ongoing continuing education to meet healthcare needs in an ever-changing reality.
If you are interested in being involved in policy or advocacy, Susan has some suggestions on where to start. She also encourages you to never underestimate what you know and the experiences you have had because you will be shocked at what others don’t know or what they don’t understand about current healthcare realities.
You probably already realize this is an informative and important dialogue for anyone who is interested in healthcare transformation. Go ahead and listen now!Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
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February 3, 2021
Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 2.1.21
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning talk about identity, what we mean by identity, why identity matters when it comes to work life balance, and what three identities influence your work life balance.
February 1, 2021
#81 Setting and Keeping Boundaries: The Secret to Preventing Overwhelm and Becoming a Thriving and Resilient Healthcare Leader
If you are like many of the overwhelmed healthcare leaders we talk with you feel stretched beyond your capabilities on a day-to-day basis.
One of the ways you can have more energy, time and balance in your life is to establish boundaries.
In this episode we explore why it’s important to set boundaries, how boundaries can lead to resilience and balance in your life, and how they are a form of self-care.
Continually adding more to your plate and not taking anything off results in stress and overwhelm. While the COVID pandemic may have taken a few things off your plate, it may also have added so much more! During times like this it can also become increasing difficult to say “No”.
“It’s only by saying ‘NO’ that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.”- Steve Jobs
You are not always in control of what ends up on your plate or within your realm of responsibility as a leader. There are somethings you can control and that’s where you can put your attention when it comes to setting boundaries and beginning to flex your “NO” muscle.
Identifying and managing any barriers you may have is an essential element of successful boundary setting.
Thriving and resilient healthcare leaders are committed to setting and keeping boundaries, so they can stay focused on what matters most, achieve their goals, and experience greater success.
You may or may not already realize this, but this episode is full of information that can help you gain more energy, time, and balance in your life! Don’t hesitate, listen now.Visit the show notes here for more: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
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January 27, 2021
Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 1.25.21
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning talk about setting boundaries, what we’ve experienced with boundary setting, why boundaries are about you and not other people, and some of our strategies for boundary setting.
January 25, 2021
#80 Supporting Mindful Choices, Polarity Intelligence™ and Personal Alignment with the Dynamic Balance Effect™ Framework
If you are like most of the healthcare leaders we talk with, the past year was a year full of challenges and changes. It looks like based on what we have seen thus far in 2021 those challenges are going to continue for a while longer.
Some of those challenges and changes may have bumped up against some of your values, like maintaining your well-being, supporting your team(s), and connecting with others.
You may have even experienced some moral distress having to make decisions that are not aligned with your values.
In this episode we dialogue about making choices based on values, managing interdependent values and the importance of personal alignment.
We share how our Dynamic Balance Effect™ Framework empowers healthcare leaders to make mindful choices, leverage their Polarity Intelligence™, personally align their values and purpose, and how important each of these are when it comes to resilience and balance.
You probably already realize this episode is packed with leadership super-powers! Go ahead and listen now.Visit the show notes here for more: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
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January 20, 2021
Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 1.18.21
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it.
Today is Martin Luther King Jr Day and we are going to talk about dreams! The dream we had for our business when we launched it three years ago today, the values that guide us and the things we’ve learned along the way and in the past year.
January 18, 2021
#79 Navigating the Rough Waters of Being a Nurse When a Family Member is Ill featuring Roberta Young
It was a delight to interview Roberta Young about her article Being a Nurse in the Family. Roberta explains what led up to co-authoring the article in My American Nurse in January of 2020 with her colleague Teresa Anderson.
During the episode we discuss these unique situations and how the experience can be leveraged to improve or change how one chooses to practice as a nurse. Even though the conversation centers on nurses’ experiences, we acknowledge other clinicians also have similar experiences.
Early in the interview Roberta shares during the pauses in her career over the past few years she took advantage of that time to reflect. During that time, she realized she can get swept up in leadership roles, working long hours and giving of herself. She concluded she would be a better leader if she lived intentionally, maintained balance in her life, and paid attention to herself.
Roberta reveals one of the things that has come out of her work in creating work life balance and defining her values and what matters most is a sense that she can write and document meaningful stories.
Roberta shares her thoughts about storytelling and how we remember through stories. She explains a powerful story will have a larger impact than going through why something is important. Story telling can also help you heal and learn from the experiences you have.
Roberta shares her experiences when her mother was ill and as the nurse in the family when she was in awe of her colleagues and other times frustrated or disappointed. She shares how as the clinician in the family you can have a positive impact on clinicians caring for your loved ones during disappointing times.
It was also noted during the interview that clearly defining and stating out loud the roles and responsibilities among family members is an essential element of care coordination and managing family dynamics.
Roberta also shares using some reflection questions clinicians can apply what they are learning in or from their experience to their clinical practice.
Roberta recognizes as a leader that being compassionate and supportive with staff during the times when their families need them balances out, especially when clinicians are given the opportunity to rest, take care of themselves, and can come back healed.
We discuss the tensions/polarities that naturally show up in these situations such as self and other, work and home, and candor and diplomacy.
You probably already realize this is a phenomenal and important discussion for anyone who is a clinician or healthcare leader. Go ahead and listen now!Visit the show notes here for more: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
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January 13, 2021
Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 1.11.21
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about not finding work life balance but creating it, why you won’t find it, investing in yourself, and how coaching can support you.
January 11, 2021
Episode #78: Looking at Healthcare and the COVID-19 Pandemic Through a Part and Whole Lens
You may or may not realize you have been living and participating in the Part and Whole polarity your whole life!
Your first lessons regarding part and whole occurred when you were a child, and you were learning to share with your friends.
During the COVID-19 pandemic we have struggled with uncertainty, overwhelming amounts of change and we’ve felt stuck, drained, and protective of the things we value most.
The tension of the Part and Whole polarity is showing up at the individual, family, team, and system levels. In the fight against COVID-19 the tension between part and whole show up as Individual Freedom and The Common Good and in Health and the Economy.
One of the easiest ways to think about part and whole is to picture the links in a chain. Each link is a part, and the chain is the whole.
You probably already realize the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. What are you doing to make sure you are strong and not the weakest link?
If you want to be a strong link in the chain, listen to this episode and learn the power of balancing the energy of the Part and Whole polarity.
Visit the show notes here for more:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
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January 6, 2021
Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 1.4.21
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about sleep and putting yourself first in 2021, our experience with being last in line, benefits of putting yourself first, and action steps you can take now to put yourself first!
January 4, 2021
Episode #77: Insights on Nurse Fatigue, the Impact on Nursing and Patient Safety, and What You Can Do with Dr. Linda D. Scott
“Just like water and food we need sleep, and so every time we lose it we jeopardize our own health and the health of others”- Dr. Linda D. Scott
In this episode it was a delight to interview Dr. Linda Scott, the Dean of Nursing at University of Wisconsin-Madison about her research on nursing fatigue and the impact on safety.
Early in the interview Dr. Scott shares she was motivated to embark on such important research when the To Err is Human was published by the Institute of Medicine in 1999 and reported there were almost 100,000 deaths associated with preventable errors. At that time Linda says it was clear there was a gap in scientific evidence regarding the number of nurse work hours and the relationship to making errors.
Dr. Scott reveals her initial studies showed nurses worked long shifts and worked overtime regularly and the risk for error tripled when working more than 12 hours and doubled when working overtime beyond any shift and that errors increased when nurses had insufficient sleep. These initial studies demonstrated the need to learn more about work related fatigue and the potential impact on patient safety.
Dr. Scott explains when people are awake for a consecutive number of hours you can see some of the same neuro- bio-behavioral affects as you would with intoxication, as an example when you are awake for more than 15 hours it’s like having a blood alcohol level of .05.
During the interview she shares when you have a sleep deficit you can’t get it back and for every hour of sleep lost the risk for making an error increases by 7%.
Dr. Scott explains what decision regret means and how it is related to fatigue and sleep deficits and is a personal and professional well-being issue.
The research studies are transferrable to other health professions. There are other research studies looking at physicians and other ancillary staff as well as other safety critical positions.
It was also noted during the interview that there is no regulatory oversight on hours in the United States for health professions.
Dr. Scott reveals there are recommendations coming from other industries that reflect nursing and other health professions and could inform the healthcare sector.
You probably already realize this is a phenomenal and eye-opening interview. Go ahead and listen now!
Visit the show notes here for more:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
NEWS FLASH! The doors to our Virtual Work Life Balance Bootcamp will be opening soon! Wouldn’t you agree leveraging a proven strategy for Work Life Balance is the absolute best way to start the New Year! Start 2021 with your own unique blueprint for work life balance!
CLICK HERE to join the interest waitlist. As a BONUS when you join the waitlist, you’ll receive a copy of our NEW perspective paper, The Three Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance.
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December 30, 2020
Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 12.28.20
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about sleep and rest, why talk about sleep, why sleep is important, and how to get more!
December 28, 2020
Episode #76: Overcoming the Impact of Burnout and COVID-19 With A Unique Approach to Creating Healthy Work Cultures
The healthcare system is facing a potential dual pandemic and unprecedented challenges.
The healthcare workforce is burned out and is now facing post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by the traumatic and psychological toll of the COVID-19 experience.
Healthcare leaders have worked tirelessly to instill hope and support the essential workers while experiencing significant levels of stress and trauma themselves.
Hospitals and healthcare systems are facing significant and unprecedented financial challenges as a result of COVID-19.
There is no quick fix or silver bullet to address the challenges that are now happening at the individual and system levels.
In this episode we introduce the Healthy Healing Organization (H2O) Framework™ to help healthcare organizations combat burnout by developing a healthy work culture.
You may or may not be wondering what is included in this unique framework to address work culture. Go ahead and listen now, you’ll be glad you did.
Visit the show notes here for more:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
NEWS FLASH! The doors to our Virtual Work Life Balance Bootcamp will be opening soon! Wouldn’t you agree leveraging a proven strategy for Work Life Balance is the absolute best way to start the New Year! Start 2021 with your own unique blueprint for work life balance!CLICK HERE to join the interest waitlist. As a BONUS when you join the waitlist, you’ll receive a copy of our NEW perspective paper, The Three Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance.
Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
December 23, 2020
Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 12.21.20
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about giving and receiving, the interdependent relationship between the two, the benefits of both and the consequences you experience when you over focus on one and neglect the other.
December 21, 2020
Episode #75: Giving Yourself the Power to Create Balance Between What You Can't Control and What You Can featuring Ann Shepard
In this episode we have the extreme pleasure of interviewing Ann Shepard, a Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer about her quest for work life balance.
During the interview Ann shares how her journey began when she realized what she had heard and learned previously about work life balance wasn’t serving her.
Ann reveals as she transitioned to working from home during the initial days of COVID she felt like she was working all the time and struggling to turn work off. This realization fueled her desire to know what she needed to do differently.
“I’m so busy” is a common mantra for leaders, Ann says. What Ann came to realize, when it came to registering for the Work Life Balance Bootcamp, was that she didn’t have enough time not to do it!
Early in the interview Ann spoke about how learning about polarities made her think differently than she had before. She also shared how she leverages the Work Life Balance Blueprint she developed in the bootcamp weekly to guide and monitor how effective her action steps are.
As a result of participating in the Work Life Balance Accelerator Program, Ann learned a lot about leaning into others at home and leveraging the strengths of her team at work to enhance not only her performance but also the performance of her team.
Ann shared writing a vision as part of the Rise of the Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Coaching Program felt a bit daunting at first, mostly because she thought she wasn’t good at it, but now finds it a helpful tool to capture what she wants in her immediate future and long-term future.
One of Ann’s biggest lessons about goals was not to go crazy and set too many and that you can leverage them to achieve your action steps in your Work Life Balance Blueprint.
Toward the end of the interview Ann reveals what she considers the biggest value of the program, the opportunity to learn polarities as a new way of dealing with a common challenge and then building on the new knowledge and information in a logical and absorbable way throughout the rest of the coaching programs.
Ann recommends to anyone thinking about joining our coaching programs that you should take advantage of it, because it’s an opportunity to learn new tools that will support your new realities and give you some power to balance those things you can’t control with what you can control.
At the end of the interview Ann says, “this is life changing, I’m a junkie about this” and “you’d be a fool not to join or stand in line for the next class!”
Well, how can we argue with that?!
You’ve probably already realized Ann has had a life changing experience and you have an opportunity to learn from her experience. Go ahead and listen now, you’ll be glad you did.
Visit the show notes here for more:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
NEWS FLASH! The doors to our Virtual Work Life Balance Bootcamp will be opening soon! Wouldn’t you agree leveraging a proven strategy for Work Life Balance is the absolute best way to start the New Year! Start 2021 with your own unique blueprint for work life balance!
CLICK HERE to join the interest waitlist. As a BONUS when you join the waitlist, you’ll receive a copy of our NEW perspective paper, The Three Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance.
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December 16, 2020
Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 12.14.20
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about stress from extensive change in your life whether you choose to make the change or it happens to you and how to maintain balance in your life.
December 14, 2020
#74: Being Your Best Self at Work and Home: The Ah-ha Moments and Lessons Learned Along the Way from Four Wise Healthcare Leaders
In this episode we interview a group of amazing healthcare leaders whom we have had the privilege of engaging with in our various coaching programs for healthcare leaders.
These leaders come from a wide variety of backgrounds and locations, but they all share a common goal to be the best they can be at both work and home.
During the interview, the group revealed their motivations for seeking work life balance included the desire to continue to grow and evolve on a personal level, new roles and career transitions, and pressures and challenges of working from home during COVID.
A common benefit from participating in our Work Life Balance Bootcamp for Healthcare Leaders that our guests received was a heightened awareness of the tension between work and home and having the tools and strategies to mitigate negative consequences. Nancy found great benefit in having a blueprint to help her recognize what she needs to differently and guide her actions daily. In addition, Ann shared one of the biggest differences for her after participating in the bootcamp was she had the awareness and permission to not expect a perfect 50/50 balance between work and home.
Roberta shared it felt a bit riskier to engage in the Work Life Balance Accelerator Program because she knew this experience would require her to go deeper, but at the same time she felt the compassion of the group supported her to take the next steps. For Nancy and Vicky learning to overcome negative and limiting stories was powerful.
During the interview Vicky shared The Rise of the Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Coaching Program is where she put it all together and realized it’s not just about work life balance but many other polarities that are at play. A common theme among the group was the power of the coaching both in the group and one-on-one. Ann’s favorite element was the 360 Polarity Assessment™ and what she learned from it.
This group of talented healthcare leaders knew in their hearts when the coaching program concluded they weren’t finished and there was more to explore and learn. Many became the founding members of the Court of Support, which Vicky says is “the icing on the cake”! They shared how they look forward to their weekly connection and to supporting each other in continuing the work life balance journey and achieving their goals.
The heartfelt message at the end of the interview to other healthcare leaders who may be struggling right now was invest in yourself because the people you love at home and at work and your community need strong leaders and you can’t give what you don’t have, so take the time to work on being the best version of you so you can give attention to what matters most.
You’ve probably already realized, before listening how inspiring and powerful this interview is. Go ahead and listen now, you’ll be glad you did.
Visit the show notes here for more:
https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
NEWS FLASH! The doors to our Virtual Work Life Balance Bootcamp will be opening soon! Wouldn’t you agree leveraging a proven strategy for Work Life Balance is the absolute best way to start the New Year! Start 2021 with your own unique blueprint for work life balance!
CLICK HERE to join the interest waitlist. As a BONUS when you join the waitlist, you’ll receive a copy of our NEW perspective paper, The Three Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance.
December 9, 2020
Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 12.7.20
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about the power of connection and community.
December 7, 2020
#73: Balancing Activity and Rest as a Strategy for a Healthy Lifestyle and the Obstacles That Get in Our Way!
As healthcare leaders we know you are managing numerous changes and significant challenges while recovering from or moving through another COVID-19 surge.
If you are like many of the healthcare leaders we talk with you are overwhelmed and overworked, stressed out, and you may even be experiencing “change fatigue”.
While experiencing all of that, you are driven to support your team and community, which leads to the tug-of-war feeling between your desire to serve and support others and your own need and desire to live a healthy lifestyle.
Being active and getting adequate rest are key components of a healthy lifestyle but you may or may not realize that often these are the things that are sacrificed when workloads and demands increase.
In this episode we talk about the importance of having a strategy and some of the obstacles that get in the way.
Truth is, you can keep making the same choices you are making and put your health at risk or make more mindful choices and take the first steps toward establishing and sustaining a healthy lifestyle, so you can thrive! The choice is yours!
This is a fun, kind of “tell it like it is” episode, but you’ll realize that as soon as you start to listen!
Visit the show notes here for more: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast
Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
NEWS FLASH! The doors to our Virtual Work Life Balance Bootcamp will be opening soon! The Bootcamp starts January 4th! Wouldn’t you agree leveraging a proven strategy for Work Life Balance is the absolute best way to start the New Year! Start 2021 with your own strategy as we talked about in this episode!
CLICK HERE to join the interest waitlist. As a BONUS when you join the waitlist, you’ll receive a copy of our NEW perspective paper, The Three Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance.
December 2, 2020
Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 11.30.20
This morning we are talking about establishing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle!
November 30, 2020
#72: Professional Well-being and Personal Well-being: Why We Can't Have One Without the Other
You probably already know that healthcare leaders need to be role-models for their teams. When it comes to well-being, leaders have a double burden to be a role model for both professional well-being and personal well-being.
The leader and his/her team members will not achieve balance and resilience without taking dual action to achieve both professional and personal well-being states.
Individuals struggling with professional well-being may experience overwhelm, disengagement, exhaustion, and moral distress.
What you may not realize is that individuals can’t have professional well-being without personal well-being. This is an interdependent pair, so both are necessary and equally important.
Personal well-being is associated with having a meaningful existence, quality of life, and positive health outcomes.
Leaders can struggle with meeting their personal needs because of the numerous competing demands they face, and now those demands placed on them because of the COVID pandemic.
These overwhelmed, struggling leaders feel guilty because they want to be role models for personal well-being, but they feel the weight of the competing demands, long work hours, plus for many the 24/7 accountability of their roles. After a while it’s easy for leaders to slip into the belief that sacrifice is a part of being a leader and to relieve the tension and eliminate the guilt, some stop trying to maintain their personal well-being. Unfortunately, over time they experience negative consequences such as depleted levels of energy, exhaustion, and burn out.
In the episode we talk about a dual action strategy to support individuals in their quest for personal and professional well-being and system level changes to create healthy healing work environments in healthcare organizations.
When both personal and professional well-being are achieved healthcare leaders and professionals not only thrive but are able to contribute to a healthy healing work culture.This is a thought-provoking episode, but that will become readily apparent when you listen! Visit the show notes here for more: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
NEWS FLASH! The doors to our Virtual Work Life Balance Bootcamp will be opening soon! The Bootcamp starts January 4th! Wouldn’t you agree leveraging a proven strategy for Work Life Balance is the absolute best way to start the New Year!
CLICK HERE to join the interest waitlist. As a BONUS when you join the waitlist, you’ll receive a copy of our NEW perspective paper, The Three Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance.
November 25, 2020
Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 11.23.20
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. Today's topic is well-being.
November 24, 2020
#71 Insights and Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Healthy Relationships and Work Cultures with Ramona Cheek and Faith Roberts
In this episode we interview our dear colleagues Ramona Cheek and Faith Roberts. Ramona is a Chief Nursing Officer and Faith is a well-regarded speaker and storyteller and is an Executive Director of Spiritual Care. These two met by chance at a picnic (you’ll have to listen to get the whole story). This chance meeting was the beginning of an amazing personal and professional relationship that has lasted the test of time.
At the start of the interview Faith and Ramona share how they have kept their relationship strong. They note that authenticity, intention, having mothers as strong role models of female relationships, and meaningful communication supports their healthy relationship. Sharing a history and reminiscing about their many shared stories is a big factor in the strength of their relationship as well.
Faith says, “Healthy relationships are about influence.”
Ramona points out their shared purpose and passion has always been their common love for the nursing profession and the people they serve. They have an aligned vision for patient care and a passion for the importance of knowing, telling, and hearing the patient story.
Ramona and Faith discuss balance, which is harmony in relationship between self and other, and a key principle of healthy relationships. They share the importance of being intentional, having awareness and faith in your own strengths, being open to what others bring to you as a leader, being self-aware, and being vulnerable.
In the interview we also talk about ways that Ramona and Faith have cultivated healthy relationships across their organizations and how it impacts the culture. One of the core components they each leverage is the power of diversity and differences across people.
One of the ways Faith believes we can support healthy relationships in healthcare organizations is to look out for the “left out” whether those are whole departments or specific leaders.
We also talked about the importance of investing in and supporting healthy relationships when attempting to create healthy work environments and foster professional well-being in the face of the rise in burnout among clinicians. Faith noted, the bottom line is people are not getting what they need from work and they are struggling and don’t feel good. We discussed what leader can do to address these challenges.
Ramona shares the COVID-19 pandemic has left individuals bone tired (spiritually, physically, and emotionally) and we are in an ultramarathon that we were not conditioned for. “To get through it together we need to show each other some grace and know we are not seeing each other at our best self”, says Ramona.
Faith shared the COVID-19 pandemic has also shined a spotlight on departments or individuals who weren’t in the spotlight previously but are now and are also playing an instrumental role in the fight against COVID-19. Another positive outcome is people in general understand a little more about what healthcare does for them.
At the close of the interview Ramona and Faith reflect on the things that give them the greatest hope during these challenging times.
We could tell you this is an entertaining and inspiring interview, but that will become readily apparent when you listen! Visit the show notes here for more: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast Celebrate with us! Feedspot ranked Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast #38 out of the top 55 healthcare leadership podcasts! Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode. If you found value in this episode, please
November 18, 2020
Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 11.16.20
This is our new Monday Morning Live Show! We've been wanting to do a Live Podcast Show for quite some time because we record our podcasts in batches and it makes it difficult to share what's happening in the world, with us, and the experiences we are having in real time. This has been an incredible year full of challenges and opportunities AND #WeAreInThisTogether. Our intention is to connect with you in a deeper way, share a little more of who we are, some of our experiences, what matters most to us, and some of the lessons we’ve learned and are learning with the hope that it will help you on your journey as well. So, this is an experiment! We will be LIVE every Monday Morning on our Facebook Page (MissingLogicLLC) at 9am EST and will share the broadcast here in the podcast. Grab your coffee and join us!This week's topic was inspired by the quote "Relationships are all there is" by Meg Wheatley and by this weeks Healthcare's MissingLogic Podcast guests!
November 16, 2020
#70 Health Information Technology: Measuring and Monitoring the Impact on Clinical Practice and Patient Outcomes with Nancy Beale
In this episode we interview Nancy Beale. Nancy is a business owner and a nationally recognized and award-winning nurse leader in health information technology (HIT) with a broad span of HIT experience across the healthcare industry.
At the start of the interview Nancy shares her greater purpose for the adoption of technologies that have a positive impact on clinical practice and patient outcomes, and why that is the driver behind her work and her research.
Nancy points out there are varying levels of adoption of technology. She also notes healthcare leaders spend a lot of time, money and human resource efforts on the tools that they think will address quality, safety, efficiency, and satisfaction but they aren’t checking to see if those tools have addressed the issues. They just keep going without knowing if what they’ve implemented is working!
After substantial investments, a lot of times leaders find some new technologies aren’t being used or in some cases workarounds have been developed that defeat the purpose of the technology that was implemented. Another point Nancy makes based on her observations is after an organization does an initial evaluation, it’s often not carried out on an ongoing basis or against a measurable standard.
Nancy’s primary interest is in making sure technologies enhance the care and outcomes for healthcare organizations and patients. During the interview we explore the positive outcomes she’s observed as a result of collaboration amongst clinical practice stakeholders and HIT stakeholders.
In the interview Nancy also conveys some of the negative consequences experienced when there is an over-focus on clinical practice to the neglect of technology best practices.
“You can’t monitor what you don’t measure.” says Nancy.
If leaders begin to measure and monitor technology use and adoption more regularly they will identify potential opportunities to improve, which leads to a greater awareness of gaps and opportunities for improvements in system design and configuration.
Nancy notes, regardless of the technology or domain, it’s important to keep the same fundamental principles in mind regarding what data is being collected, the necessity of the data collection, and the use of standards.
While discussing the role of innovation in HIT Nancy points out how important it is to let go of what you know and be open to usher in innovation.
We could tell you this is an informative and interesting interview, but you’ll realize that when you listen! Visit the show notes here for more: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast Celebrate with us! Feedspot ranked Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast #38 out of the top 55 healthcare leadership podcasts! Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode. If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Our mission is to start “a movement” of leaders who address the chronic challenges in healthcare through a Polarity Thinking™ lens! If you're the kind of leader wants to help others, share this with your peers. OTHER RESOURCES YOU MAY ENJOY:
We invite you to join our private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook. The group provides a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
November 11, 2020
#69 Improving Performance and Creating Healthy Work Environments by Leveraging and Enhancing Productivity and Relationships Simultaneously
To say these are challenging times is an understatement!
How do you discern what is a priority when everything is a priority?
When we recorded this episode there was no such thing as COVID-19.
As leaders you are working in face paced environments with increasing demands and at the same time attempting to address clinician burnout. Now on top of all that you are finding yourself responsible for leading your organization through the unprecedented times with COVID-19.
All of this comes at a time when you may have already been having difficulty managing workload demands, competing priorities and be on the verge of burnout and moral distress yourself!
Your relationships with other leaders and the team need to be stronger than ever and at the same time you’ll need to be as productive as you can be during these challenging and uncertain times.
During this podcast we talk about the importance of managing the productivity and relationship polarity and the benefits of strengthening both.
Now more than ever leveraging this polarity is an essential competency for leading your organization through this difficult time.Visit the show notes here for more: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast Celebrate with us! Feedspot ranked Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast #38 out of the top 55 healthcare leadership podcasts! Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode. If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Our mission is to start “a movement” of leaders who address the chronic challenges in healthcare through a Polarity Thinking™ lens! If you're the kind of leader wants to help others, share this with your peers. OTHER RESOURCES YOU MAY ENJOY:
We invite you to join our private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook. The group provides a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
November 4, 2020
#68 Innovation in Supporting Well-Being and Mental Health for Nurses featuring Dr. Dan Weberg
In this episode we interview Dr. Dan Weberg. Dan is the Head of Clinical Innovation for Trusted Health. Dan is also the host of The Handoff Podcast, which focuses on critical topics in nursing that are usually not talked about.
Dan says, “You don’t have to be an innovator to lead innovation.”
At the start of the interview Dan shares how Trusted Health is like a combo of LinkedIn and Match.com for nurses.
Dan points out Trusted Health’s goal is to “be the single source for nurses to manage their professional lives.”
During our interview with Dan we explore the results from Trusted Health’s survey on Frontline Nurse Mental Health and Well-Being. Dan notes the survey of over 1400 nurses across all 50 states indicated that while nurses felt their well-being was declining and they didn’t feel supported by their facilities, they remained committed to nursing. The results also reveal the issue is systemic and not about whether nurses are committed.
Another point we discuss with Dan is the need for leaders to be prepared and equipped with skills, including mental, spiritual, and physical health, so they can handle stressful situations that arise.
Dan also shares with us the innovative partnership Trusted Health engaged in with The Ohio State University to provide coaching and support for nurses while at the same time enabling Nurse Practitioner students to acquire clinical hours.
This is an interesting and informative interview, as you’ll undoubtedly determine when you listen! Visit the show notes here for more: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast Celebrate with us! Feedspot ranked Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast #38 out of the top 55 healthcare leadership podcasts! Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode. If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Our mission is to start “a movement” of leaders who address the chronic challenges in healthcare through a Polarity Thinking™ lens! If you're the kind of leader wants to help others, share this with your peers.
October 28, 2020
#67 A New Appreciation for Joy, What it Feels Like and What it Can Be with Dr. Richard Ricciardi
In this episode we interview Dr. Richard (Ric) Ricciardi. Ric is currently the 33rd President of Sigma, the international honor society of nursing. Dr. Ricciardi has declared his intention to “infuse joy” into healthcare and nursing during his time as the President of Sigma.
At the start of the interview Ric reminds us that it is important to think about joy and gratitude every day.
In the interview Ric also conveys his thoughts and reflections on how people today tend to focus on what they don’t have, rather than what they do have, and miss the joy that is right in front of them.
Ric points out that his presidency hasn’t been what he anticipated. But he’s learned in times of the most interesting adversities great things can happen. The things he planned for as a new President of Sigma didn’t happen, but other positive things have happened. As an example, the international community of health professionals and nurses have connected over the unifying theme of COVID-19.
During our interview with Ric we explore how the combination of the pandemic, systemic racism, and the international economic crisis has been stressful and demoralizing for some, and can cause you to pause and evaluate who you are, what you do, and the culture and world you live in.
Another point Ric makes is that what we are experiencing is an international phenomenon and leaders must be aware of what’s happening and have empathy for others as well as themselves during this time.
When it comes to taking care of yourself and prioritizing your own needs what Ric has learned is, “if you don’t care enough about yourself to put yourself at least at equal par with everyone else then you’re not going to have joy.”
We discuss what stimulated Ric to set his intention to infuse joy in nursing and healthcare and how joy is critical for the delivery of good care.
Ric notes, not every day is going to be a good day, so it’s important to consider what is it that builds resiliency to help you get through the bad days.
Working and leading collaboratively is a key ingredient for joy in the workplace.
As advocates for interprofessional collaboration we recognize quality care delivery can’t be provided by one profession. Toward the end of the interview we discuss interprofessional collaboration and Ric shares his thoughts that “the whole must be better than the sum the parts. While we have a lot of great sum of the parts, and we have a lot of parts in that sum, but we often don’t have a great whole.”
“We are doomed, if we can’t work together, because care is a team sport” says Dr. Ric Ricciardi.
This is a joy filled and inspiring interview, but you’ll find that out when you listen! Visit the show notes here for more: https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode. Celebrate with us! Feedspot ranked Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast #38 out of the top 55 healthcare leadership podcasts!
October 21, 2020
#66 Discovering Your Personal Strength and Resilience to Face Life Challenges featuring Ellen Reed
In this episode we interview Ellen Reed. Ellen is a Gestalt Therapist and Nurse Psychotherapist and she’s the author of Someone to Watch Over You: Finding Your Strength Within.
The book is for people interested in overcoming challenges by finding the strength and resilience that lies within them.
Ellen shares she was inspired by the patient experiences she had early in her career and by the encouragement she received from staff, peers, and other leaders. When she was diagnosed with metastatic ovarian cancer a few years ago, she recognized it as a crisis and realized it was important to express her thoughts and feelings before it was too late.
In her book, Ellen encourages readers to find or redefine themselves and learn what their engaging qualities are and who they want to surround themselves with.
In the interview we talk about how Dr. Barry Johnson developed the Polarity Map™ following a Gestalt Therapy session with a client. Ellen conveys her experience with using Polarity Thinking™ and her perspective regarding the freedom that comes with accepting polarities as an essential part of life. Ellen believes Polarity Thinking™ crystalizes where you are placing your energy.
During our interview with Ellen we explore the challenges that people have faced because of the COVID-19 pandemic and how individuals can practice resilience during this time.
Ellen shares her experience with being resilient as a cancer survivor. We talk about thoughts, feelings, and actions and the relationships between them, as well as the power of staying in the present moment.
We discuss the power of communication and the role and importance of awareness, and how communication impacts and influences relationships. We all have choices, and it starts with deciding who you want to be.
We close the interview with Ellen reading the be your OWN Best Friend mantra she has included in the book. We can tell you how wonderful the mantra is, but you’ll have to listen to hear it for yourself!Visit the show notes here for more:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastCelebrate with us! Feedspot ranked Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast #38 out of the top 55 healthcare leadership podcasts!Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Our mission is to start “a movement” of leaders who address the chronic challenges in healthcare through a Polarity Thinking™ lens! If you're the kind of leader wants to help others, share this with your peers. OTHER RESOURCES YOU MAY ENJOY:
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October 14, 2020
#65 Why are Both Doing and Being Essential to Achieving Your Goals?
In today’s episode we explore the states of Doing and Beingfrom 40,000 feet.
The state of Doing is associated with accomplishment, competence, knowledge, skills, analysis, and performance.
We think it’s safe to say (based on personal experience J) as a leader you’re probably achieved excellence in many of these characteristics of doing, or you wouldn’t be a leader!
These are challenging times both at work and at home for many healthcare leaders. Many of you are just trying to keep your head above water as you address massive and frequent changes. And if you’re a high achiever, like most leaders, you highly value doing or action!
The problem is, you may not be aware that Being is equally as important as Doing and there’s an interdependent relationship between the two that directly impacts the outcomes you desire. Doing and Being is one of the tensions in Pillar 2 -Managing Tensions of the Dynamic Balance Effect that we help healthcare leaders learn to manage and leverage over time.
As Elkhart Tolle says, “Doing is never enough, if you neglect being”.
In the episode we also discuss the relationship between Being, identity and goals. We explore how and why your identity, as a way of Being, has a significant impact on goal achievement.
We share some examples of how shifting our approach and prioritizing Being before Doing makes a significant difference in achieving goals.
Leveraging Doing and Being is an essential competency for any healthcare leader who wants to make a difference.
If you are one of those healthcare leaders who wants to make a difference we don’t have to tell you twice to listen to this episode!Visit the show notes here for more:https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcastCelebrate with us! Feedspot ranked Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast #38 out of the top 55 healthcare leadership podcasts!Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Our mission is to start “a movement” of leaders who address the chronic challenges in healthcare through a Polarity Thinking™ lens! If you're the kind of leader wants to help others, share this with your peers. OTHER RESOURCES YOU MAY ENJOY:
We invite you to join our private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook. The group provides a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
October 7, 2020
#64 How to Make A Positive Difference in the World and Stop Making False Either/Or Choices featuring Dr. Barry Johnson
In this episode we interview Dr. Barry Johnson. Barry is the author of AND: Making a Difference by Leveraging Polarity, Paradox, or Dilemma. Volume One: Foundations.
AND is for people interested in making a positive difference in the world or in any part of their life as a citizen, a family member, or an individual within an organization.
Barry shares Volume One of AND that represents an enhancement of the evolving polarity theory and modifications to the Polarity Map® based on learnings over the past 18 years since the publication of Barry’s first book. This volume covers the application of fundamental polarities from different system perspectives and how different polarities show up in the brain.
Volume Two will be released in a few months and will cover the application of the polarity phenomena and creates awareness of the many caring bright people using Polarity Thinking™ in numerous different disciplines around the world.
During our interview with Barry we explore how Both/And thinking overcomes resistance to change and polarization and is an essential step in making a difference.
Barry encourages readers to start with the chapter that resonates with them most after reading the introduction. We’ve all been living with this phenomenon our whole life, so at some level what is in the book will make sense because of your life experience.
Barry shares with us his thinking behind the intentional design of the book and how the chapters build on each other culminating with making a difference and taking care of self. With the book near completion at the onset of COVID-19, he has two editorial chapter additions at the end of the book specific to the pandemic, including Health AND Economy and Freedom AND the Common Good.
In the interview Barry also conveys how the polarity of Part and Whole is the starting point for the book and explains why this provides a foundation for all the polarities discussed in the book. We also talk about the essence of the Part and Whole polarity and how it can be used as a frame for looking at specific challenges such as clinician burnout.
Barry shares learning about polarities is easiest when you work from the smallest system up. So, beginning with polarities that have meaning for you as an individual enables you to see quickly how the same polarity is applicable across other levels of the system.
We close the interview with conversation about misdiagnosing polarities as problems and how leaders pay a price twice when this occurs.
If you want to make a positive difference in the world, this book will be a game changer for you! Enjoy the episode!Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.We invite you to join our private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook. The community provides a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
September 30, 2020
#63 Coping with the Accumulative Effect of the COVID Pandemic, Racial Injustice and Social Unrest with Heather Graham
In this episode we interview Heather Graham. Heather is a licensed clinical social worker, an expert in mental health in the workplace, and certified employee assistance professional.
During our interview with Heather we explore the complexities of what we are experiencing currently with the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest and racial injustices.
Heather reminds us that we are experiencing more than just the pandemic and the uncertainty associated with it but also it’s been an unusual and unexpected year of social unrest, racial injustice, and catastrophic fires. In addition, it’s an election year in the United States, which naturally includes a lot of debate and decisiveness.
Heather points out that many of the reasons this is such a difficult time is that our standard ways of coping with stress including social interaction, sporting events, movies, going out, or our ways of distracting ourselves aren’t available to us.
This is challenging because we must find new ways of coping or dealing with the fear and anxiety of the unknown or lack of a sense of safety at a time when we are under tremendous stress.
Another point Heather brings out is there is “no escape” from the pandemic, and we discuss the impact this has on all of us. No matter where you go you can’t forget about it. It’s an unseen presence in our lives and communities and seeing masks everywhere we go is a constant reminder.
In the interview Heather also conveys her thoughts and reflections on the potential for a parallel pandemic because of the trauma, overwhelm, burnout, and moral distress being experienced by the frontline clinicians.
We discuss the importance of taking care of the healthcare workers. As Heather says, “they have to be 100% to give 100%”.
We talk about the risks of healthcare clinicians developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and how PTSD can develop because of multiple exposures to trauma.
We close the interview with conversation around what healthcare executives can do to create a supportive workplace culture during this time.
This is a very enlightening and informative interview, but you’ll find that out when you listen! Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
We invite you to join our private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook. The community provides a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
September 23, 2020
#62 Living and Leading in a World with Systemic Racism: Thoughts, Reflections, and Possibilities featuring Renwick Brutus
In this episode we interview Renwick Brutus. Renwick is an entrepreneur, business consultant and motivational speaker. We begin our interview with our guest Renwick Brutus, talking about this key question, “What right do you have to deny anybody the opportunity to benefit from who you are, what you know, and what you do?”.
As a leader and entrepreneur, Renwick helps individuals and teams identify and use more of their potential to increase performance and results. He guides individuals to be irresistible to their organizations, customers, and the market-at-large. On top of all that, Renwick provides investment and wealth management guidance to individuals.
Renwick’s philosophy is, “Too many of us are programmed to follow paths that are not congruent with our natural interests and strengths. We are not aware of the wide, open spaces around us in which we can express who we are. All of us deserve to find our rightful place, to live joyfully, and to excel”.
During our interview we discuss with Renwick the world’s response to George Floyds death. Renwick shares his perspective that the visual imagery of George Floyd’s killing was worth 10 million words because it enabled the world to see the magnitude of the negative attitudes and treatment that has persisted toward black people. It also brought systemic racism to the forefront of consciousness in a way no words or complaints could.
Renwick shares his personal experience with racism and how he chooses to respond to it. He also acknowledges that many people opposed to racism are doing their part to systemically crush it, and many are working quietly to stamp out racism and this gives him the sense that he is not alone.
In the interview Renwick also conveys his thoughts and reflections on how others who want to can learn, understand, and stamp out injustices and systemic racism.
We close the interview with conversation about leadership during these times.
Renwick’s wisdom is profound. Listen and find out for yourself!Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
September 16, 2020
#61 Three Essential Elements Healthcare Leaders Can Use to Live a Balanced Life During the Hard Times and Beyond
Why is it important for healthcare leaders to live a balanced life?
The stress and strain on the healthcare workforce is unprecedented and is taking a significant toll on a work force that was already experiencing burnout or was on the verge of it before the COVID pandemic.
If you are like most healthcare leaders, you are already being called upon to address these challenges and are feeling the call to support your team.
The truth is, as the leader, you are their first line of support.
How prepared are you to carry this responsibility and burden?
We know how much you want to support them AND you are experiencing significant challenges and stress, too.
Have you already noticed the toll these pressing challenges are taking on you?
Without a way to maintain balance in your life between work demands and personal and family needs, you will experience unintended, negative consequences over time.
In this episode, we explore a unique combination of essential elements that you may or may not know can help you achieve life-long work life balance. These three essential elements are part of our Dynamic Balance Effect Framework™ that we leverage to help healthcare leaders develop balance and resilience in their work and personal lives.
How you define balance can impact your ability to achieve and sustain work life balance. During the episode we discuss the concept of dynamic balance and how to embrace and leverage the tension between work and home.
Meg Wheatley states, “Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else”. We talk about the significant role healthy relationships at work and home play in establishing work life balance.
You may or may not realize how powerful you are when you leverage your strengths. The third element we discuss is mastering your strengths and leveraging the strengths of others during difficult or challenging times.
Have you begun to realize how these three essential elements (managing the tension between work & home, cultivating healthy relationships, and leveraging your strengths) can help you establish work life balance, yet?
When you listen to the podcast, you will see why this combination of elements is a game changer. You may or may not know that the doors to our NEW 5- Day VIRTUAL Work Life Balance Bootcamp for Healthcare Leaders are OPEN!! If you want to experience more joy, live with intention, and add value at work and establish work life balance easily and effortlessly, then this bootcamp is for you.
Click here to learn more, but HURRY the doors close at MIDNIGHT on Friday, September 11th!
Celebrate with us! Feedspot ranked Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast #38 out of the top 55 healthcare leadership podcasts!
September 9, 2020
#60 Calling All Healthcare Leaders: Now is the Time to Put Yourself First and Develop Your Resilience and Here's How
Why is it important for healthcare leaders to build resilience now?
Clinicians and leaders were already burned out, or on the verge of it, prior to the COVID pandemic.
There is concern that the strain and burden being experienced by essential healthcare workers may lead to a dual pandemic.
The truth is their leaders are their first line of support.
We know how much you want to support them and how concerned you are about their well-being AND you are experiencing significant challenges and stress, too.
In this episode, we explore a unique combination of strategies that you may or may not know can help you develop resilience during these unprecedented times. These three strategies are part of our Dynamic Balance Effect Framework™ that we leverage to help healthcare leaders develop balance and resilience in their work and personal lives.
When you are always putting others first, it can have a negative impact on your well-being and resilience. During the episode we discuss the importance of taking care of self and others and putting your own needs first. Yes, you need to put yourself first!
Rabih Alameddine, author of The Hakawati, states “What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens”. We talk about the significant role stories and beliefs play in our ability to be resilient.
The third strategy we discuss is the power of habits. You may or may not realize that 95% of what we do is based on habit. It’s easy to see, if 95% of our actions are based on habit, then it’s essential to be aware of our habits and to leverage habits to make our most effective actions automatic and easy, isn’t it.
Have you begun to realize how these three strategies can help you put yourself first and develop resilience, yet?
You may not realize the significance of the strategies until you listen to the podcast and learn more. It’s there waiting for you. Other Podcast Episodes on Taking Care of Self and Others:
Episode # 6 The Holy Grail: Managing Taking Care of Self AND Taking Care of Others
Episode #14 Are You Sacrificing your SELF for OTHERS?
Episode #35 What’s the secret to becoming a thriving and resilient healthcare leader?You may or may not know that the doors to our 5- Day VIRTUAL Work Life Balance Bootcamp for Healthcare Leaders is OPEN!! If you want to experience more joy, live with intention, and add value at work and establish work life balance easily and effortlessly, then this bootcamp is for you. Click here to learn more!
September 2, 2020
#59 Is It Possible to Find Stability In Your Life When Everything is Constantly Changing?
Almost every aspect of our lives has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
It’s easy to see that the struggle with all that change is real, isn’t it?
The truth is it’s not the change people are struggling with; it’s the loss or lack of stability.
In this episode, we explore a unique combination of strategies that you may or may not realize can help you find or create some stability in your life.
While the changes may lessen over time, change will never fully disappear or go away. You might not have realized yet that you need both stability and change in your life and that’s why it’s essential to strengthen or create stability in the midst of all this change. We talk about how the tension between change and stability shows up and how to use it to your advantage.
The Dali Lama says, “Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values”. In the episode we talk about how values provide an anchor during times of change that keeps you from drifting or being swept away the currents of change.
Another strategy we discuss that can help with creating stability in your life is to set goals. Yes, you can set goals during times of chaos and crisis! We talk about re-evaluating and restructuring goals to align with current realities as a method for creating some stability.
Just imagine if you could begin to thrive and not just survive during this time! It is possible!
Listen NOW and open the door to the possibilities.Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
Celebrate with us! MissingLogic Podcast has been ranked by Feedspot number 38 out of the top 55 healthcare leadership podcasts to follow!
You may or may not know that the doors to our 5- Day VIRTUAL Work Life Balance Bootcamp open next week! If you want to experience more joy, live with intention, and add value at work and establish work life balance easily and effortlessly, then this bootcamp is for you. Click here to join the interest list and we will let you know when the doors open!
August 26, 2020
#58 What Are the Negative Consequences Healthcare Leaders Face When Applying a Problem-Solving Lens to Strategic Planning?
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else” – Yogi Berra
Have you ever experienced this? You have a sense of the direction you’re headed but you aren’t clear what your destination is?
Once you do have clarity on the desired destination you begin to feel the tension between where you are now and where you want to go.
Establishing a strategic plan with a polarity lens can help you establish action steps that enable you to leverage the tension between where you want to go and where you are currently.
Using a polarity lens helps to identify any interdependent pairs of values present in the plan that you are not recognizing and avoid unintended consequences of over emphasizing some values to the neglect of others. As an example, if you include recruitment in your strategic plan and don’t also include strategies for retention, you will experience unintended consequences over time.
Using a polarity lens and assessment process supports vigilant monitoring of outcomes over time. Together these approaches keep organizations moving in a positive or virtuous cycle toward their greater purpose and enables timely course correction as needed.
Listen to this episode to learn how applying a polarity lens to the strategic planning process can give you a more comprehensive approach and support you in achieving sustainable results.
Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.If you are interested in learning more about our Healthy Healing Organization Framework or using a Polarity Assessment™ in your strategic planning process, go to [email protected] schedule a call with us. We’d love to learn your story and see if we can be of service.
August 19, 2020
#57 The Power of Leveraging Healthy Tension: A Tool for Navigating Challenging Territory When You Are Committed to Making a Difference featuring Tim Arnold
In today’s episode, we interview Tim Arnold. Tim is the author of The Power of Healthy Tension: Overcome Chronic Issues and Conflicting Values.
The inspiration to write a book came after moving from corporate to being the executive director of a homeless shelter. Tim’s hope in publishing the book was to share with other providers and people in healthcare who are working in challenging territory, but are committed to making difference, that this lens of Polarity Thinking™ is not just interesting, it’s not just helpful, it’s foundational.
Tim shares in his first year as executive director of the homeless shelter he thought constantly “I don’t know what I would do had I not had this understanding these tools, this perspective”.
Tim says his exposure to Polarity Thinking™ was not by chance. He went to get a business tool and instead the training he received opened-up a brand-new chapter to living and experiencing life at a different level. He describes the first day of training with Dr. Barry Johnson like this “when Barry started to talk I had this sense inside me to pay attention because this is bigger than you can imagine”.
Tim believes so much in Polarity Thinking™ that he tells his readers at the beginning of the book, you are going to be all in on this, or you might as well close the book now.
We wonder if you recognize that people are already familiar with polarities or tensions. Most people experience them on a daily basis, they just haven’t been given the language to describe it or the space to manage and leverage them.
It’s easy to see that recently we’ve been living in a world where we choose sides, pick our tribes, and think either/or, is it not? It is frustrating to live in this binary world because we know it doesn’t work. You may not know people don’t have to give up their values or perspectives, but they can expand them. Tim’s greatest hope is that that the next generation realizes this and chooses different approaches.
You may or may not have already realized, The Power of Healthy Tension: Overcome Chronic Issues and Conflicting Values is a gift full of insights and possibilities.
We could tell you the same holds true for this interview, but we will let you discover that for yourself!
Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
August 12, 2020
#56 The Road to Achieving Professional Growth and Optimal Performance: Finding the Balance Between Eustress (the good stress) and Rest
Lou Holtz says, “In this world you are either growing or you’re dying, so get in motion and grow”.
If you are like many leaders today, you feel the pressure to “be more” to improve your performance at work and at home.
Do you want to up your game? Maybe take your performance to the next level or possibly grow and evolve as a leader, parent, or partner or spouse?
At the same time do you wonder when you’re going to get a break? When you might find some time to breathe. Or maybe you’re wondering when you can get off this train!
In today’s episode we discuss personal and professional growth and the eustress and rest polarity.
Achieving sustainable growth and optimal performance requires us to leverage eustress and rest. Eustress is the good stress. It’s the stress you feel when stepping outside your comfort zone or stretching yourself beyond your current capabilities.
If you’re like most people who have embarked on a fitness or exercise routine you’ve probably experienced this. You periodically increase the stress on your muscles to increase their capacity and you balance it with periods of rest and recovery.
Every two years we witness the positive outcomes of leveraging this polarity when we watch the athletes at the winter and summer Olympics compete. (As you will hear we were looking forward to seeing the Olympics when we recorded this segment- but it wasn’t meant to be this year due to COVID-19). The athletes leverage this polarity daily, weekly, monthly, and annually to become champions in their sport.
Leveraging eustress and rest can work for our mental or cognitive growth as well.
Listen to this episode and learn how managing eustress and rest supports personal and professional growth.Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
August 5, 2020
#55 How to get off the Merry-Go-Round of Competing Priorities and Numerous Change Initiatives to Achieve Lasting Outcomes
Today’s episode is based on over 30 years of experience that we have had working with healthcare organizations across North America.
We’ve observed over the years that organizations have the same problems, concerns, culture, and practice issues. Within each organization these challenges appear to be unique to the organization but when you have a more global perspective you can see these challenges are pretty much the same in other healthcare organizations.
Healthcare leaders enter what we call the “fix-it” mode and end up caught on the merry-go-round of competing priorities and numerous change initiatives. Before one project ends, another begins.
If you are like most of these leaders, you are juggling projects, revisiting the same issues over and over and unable to determine which of the many priorities are the priority!
You may or may not realize you lack a sense of the big picture, how each initiative impacts the other, how essential voices are missing from the process, and why the positive outcomes that are achieved are not sustained.
This is because the project or initiative driven change is not being supplemented with a systems or framework driven approach.
We hope you’ll join us for this episode to learn how healthcare leaders can implement both project/initiative and framework/system changes to achieve sustainable outcomes.Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
July 29, 2020
#54 Mastering Your Code: The Key to Living an Extraordinary Life featuring author Darren J. Gold
In today’s episode, we interview Darren J. Gold. Darren is the author of Master Your Code: The Art, Wisdom, and Science of Leading an Extraordinary Life. The book was based on a letter that Darren wrote to his son following his graduation from high school and prior to his transition to college. The inspiration to shape the letter into a book came after receiving positive feedback from a few thousand people who read the letter because it had been forwarded to them from someone else.
Darren’s hope in publishing the book was to synthesize and crystalize the wisdom he had accumulated over the years both professionally and personally and offer it to others in a practical way.
“We can’t change what we can’t see”- Darren J. Gold
Darren explains the premise of the book is that we are all programmed by subconscious safety- based rules, beliefs and values that drive our behaviors and limit our results, which is our subconscious code. If we want to live an extraordinary life we can consciously choose to rewrite the program and master our code.In the book, Darren explores the ten crux rules, values, and beliefs that are part of our program and have the most significant impact on our life. One of the shifts in programming is to seek to understand rather than be right all the time. The challenge is we are programmed to see all conflicts as a problem to be solved where there is only one right answer or solution, when many of the conflicts are polarities with two right and interdependent answers.
Darren described his exposure to Polarity Thinking™ as “a piece of wisdom or a wisdom tool that changed the way I saw the world, which doesn’t happen often, but when it does I know it instantly”. From his perspective, you can’t truly master your code unless you can distinguish and internalize the difference between problems to solve and polarities that can be leveraged.
In the interview, we discuss how looking at Challenging and Celebrating your employees as a problem can lead to a false choice that you are either challenging them to get the most out of them or celebrating them and not getting the most out of them! In the book, Darren shares more about how he leveraged Polarity Thinking™ to integrate the tension between these poles into his leadership and how it enabled him to develop a deeper understanding of his preferences and fears.
Darren wanted every page in the book to add something, and he knocked it out of the park!
If you are a healthcare leader who realizes your beliefs, values, rules, and old ways of thinking are not working anymore, this book is for you. You won’t be disappointed!
You may or may not have already realized, Master Your Code: The Art, Wisdom, and Science of Leading an Extraordinary Life is a gift full of insights and inspiration.
We could tell you the same holds true for this interview, but we will let you discover that for yourself! Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
July 22, 2020
#53 Beyond Polarization: Dialogue as a Tool to Expose Our Fears, Understand Resistance, and Generate Hope and Wisdom
Introduction to the Episode:
Dialogue lifts us out of polarization and into a greater common sense and is a means for accessing the intelligence and coordinated power of groups of people.-- William Issac
We are thrilled to be talking about dialogue and how dialogue skills can help leaders reach new levels of understanding. Dialogue is one of founding principles of our business and the cornerstone of who we are as healthcare leaders, business partners and best friends.
During this episode we are going to share the principles of dialogue that have shaped our beliefs and communication behaviors over the past 30 years. We’ve taught these principles to thousands of clinicians and healthcare leaders who utilized them as the foundation for their healthy healing work cultures.
You probably already know that effective communication is the cornerstone of leadership success. Dialogue is an essential skill for every healthcare leader and that’s why it is one of the Living Principles in Pillar 1 of our Dynamic Balance Effect Framework.
If you are like most leaders, as you listen to the podcast you’re going to discover very quickly the power of dialogue and how dialogue skills are an essential tool to overcome conflict, complaints, and resistance.
During this episode, you’ll realize how leveraging dialogue skills can help you explore opposing points of view, fears, and reduce or eliminate resistance and conflict.
Communication challenges and reoccurring problems are a source of stress that can weigh you down and hold you back from being a thriving, resilient, and effective leader.
As you listen, you’ll discover why marrying the principles of dialogue and Polarity Thinking™ enables you to not only understand resistance but to leverage the wisdom resistance represents.
If you are serious about being a thriving and effective leader, then this episode is exactly what you have been looking for.
You can click here to listen.
Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
July 15, 2020
#52 The Healthcare Leader as a Role Model for Self-Care: Caring for Yourself and Caring for the Team featuring Dr. Jeanne Roode
We begin our interview with our guest Dr. Jeanne Roode, talking about the influence Polarity Thinking™ has had on us as healthcare leaders and the polarities at play during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As a healthcare leader amid COVID-19, Jeanne is recognizing the polarity of keeping people safe and rescuing the economy and how this is a polarity manifesting in front of us and on a world stage every day. She’s also experiencing the margin and mission polarity as healthcare organizations face significant economic challenges and try to stay viable and at the same time serve their communities.
Jeanne sees Polarity Thinking™ as a way to give back, especially to new leaders and to help them navigate and manage the ongoing tensions they experience.
These tensions can significantly impact healthcare leaders, especially if they are unaware of them or do not know how to manage them.
During our interview we discuss the crux tension or polarity of taking care of self andtaking care of others. Jeanne shares her journey on the road to sustainable well-being over four years and what she has learned along the way.
From Jeanne’s perspective, 100% commitment to your well-being is not something you wake up one day and decide, it is an evolution. She describes it as, “a number of moments in your life in which you learn and gain wisdom, that come together to one day be enough to push through the barriers”.
Jeanne’s doctoral work focused on the health and well-being of nurses and nurse managers. She studied the self-care practices of nurses and found their lowest scoring areas were nutrition and exercise. In her study, nurse managers had the lowest scores in stress management as well as attending to their own stress and learning more about it. Jeanne has learned what nurses don’t understand, and that is if they don’t attend to their own self-care, and focus on others instead, they are putting everything at risk including attending to others.Jeanne shares some of the ways she’s found to care for her team while caring for herself is to be a role model, provide appreciation and recognition of their stories, and take interest in their personal and professional success.
Some recommendations for healthcare leaders engaged in day-to-day COVID-19 planning or management is to trust each other to carry the work, encourage self-care, and share stories of what you are doing to take care of yourself.
How you take care of yourself as a leader cannot be hidden. Your valuing of self-care shows in everything you do. You are being watched and whether you are aware of it or not, you are a role model for self-care.
The wisdom Jeanne shares is profound!Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
July 8, 2020
#51 Individual and Organizational Trauma: One Healthcare Leader’s Experience and the Risks Healthcare Leaders Face Today with COVID-19 featuring Dr. Diana Hendel
Today, we talk with Dr. Diana Hendel. Diana is a pharmacist, healthcare executive, consultant, inspirational leader, and the author of Responsible: A Memoir.
Diana describes her book as a “story that demanded to be told”.
During our interview, Diana shares her incredible journey as a CEO through a traumatic event and crisis at a California hospital where three colleagues lost their lives.
Her motivation for writing the book was to pay tribute to the colleagues who lost their lives and to former co-workers, which she describes as her work family. She also wrote the book to raise awareness of how trauma impacts individuals and organizational culture.
Another motivation for writing the book was to raise awareness about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Diana shares in the book what it was like to be not only a leader with PTSD but also a patient with PTSD.
Diana shares not only the essence of the memoir but also the discoveries and lessons learned from the trauma. She also shares what it was like to “Stand In” and take care of the organization and the employees following a crisis and how when trauma occurs in an organization it calls for a different type of leadership.
We talk about the trauma healthcare leaders are experiencing because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the risks of PTSD. Diana shares some recommendations leaders can implement to support each other.
Responsible: A Memoir is a gift full of insights and lessons that leaders can draw from as they move through the COVID-19 crisis. Go here to pick up a copy.
This is one of the most inspiring, informative, and enlightening interviews we have done.
Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
July 1, 2020
#50 Healthy Relationships: An Essential Component of Leadership Success and a Joyful Life but How Do You Develop Them?
“Relationships are all there is”- Meg Wheatley
Let’s face it, growing up many of us were not taught how to develop healthy relationships. We learned about relationships and how to be in a relationship by observing others.
We are thrilled to be talking about relationships during this milestone episode. Relationships are the foundation of our business and the cornerstone of who we are as healthcare leaders, business partners and best friends.
During this episode we are going to share the relationship principles that have shaped our beliefs and relationship behaviors over the past 30 years. We’ve taught these principles to thousands of clinicians and healthcare leaders who utilized them as the foundation for their healthy healing work cultures. The principles are timeless and apply to any type of relationship.
You probably already know that relationships are the corner stone of leadership success and an essential component of a healthy, joyful life. That’s why healthy relationships is one of the Living Principles in Pillar 1 of our Dynamic Balance Effect.
Unhealthy relationships are a source of stress that can weigh you down and hold you back from being a thriving, balanced and resilient leader.
If you are a leader who feels micromanaged, struggles to enlist the support of others, feels lonely at the top or doesn’t know how to improve your relationships, this episode is especially important for you.
You may or may not have already realized the quality of your relationships begins with you. If you haven’t been exposed to or learned how to engage in healthy relationships, this episode is a gift.
Listen and lead by example!
Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
June 24, 2020
#49 The COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City: A Nurse Leader's Personal and Professional Experience and Perspective with Dr. Vicky Tiase
All eyes of the nation have been focused on New York during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During this episode Dr. Vicky Tiase shares with us what it has been like to be a leader in one of the major NYC hospitals during the pandemic.
Dr. Tiase shares her extreme gratitude for the support from nurses across the country who came to New York to help.
We learn about the initial days of the pandemic and how overwhelming it felt, how hard it was to ramp up quickly and how the leadership teams worked diligently to keep staff informed and supported.
Dr. Tiase also shares the lessons learned regarding communication and information sharing, converting an entire hospital into an ICU, and what it takes to prepare and support staff.
As difficult as it has been there are many opportunities emerging from the pandemic and Dr. Tiase shares some opportunities she has identified within the context of the field of nursing informatics.
Nationally leaders are voicing concern about the mental health of the frontline workers. During the episode we discuss the importance of checking in with people, using open ended questions to invite individuals to share how they are really feeling and how “toughing it out” is only going to take someone so far.
This is an inspiring and informative interview we know you will enjoy!
Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
June 17, 2020
#48 The Missing Logic in the Fight to Address Escalating Levels of Clinician Burnout and Support Well-being and Resilience
Three landmark reports from the National Academy of Medicine (previously known as the Institute of Medicine) had been guiding the transformation of the healthcare system for twenty years.
Now a fourth report, Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being has been written to guide the healthcare system through the burnout crisis.
The cost of burnout is significant and is experienced at the individual, organizational and societal levels according to the NAM consensus report.
Chronic imbalances between job demands and job resources have contributed to burnout.
System changes and performance improvements will fall on the shoulders of leaders to solve the burnout problem.
If burnout is treated only as a problem to solve, without looking at the polarities that lie under the surface, the actions taken will over time result in failure.
The goal is to reduce burnout and improve well-being and resilience throughout the healthcare organization and the healthcare system.
Join us for this episode where we share how to apply and leverage Polarity Thinking™ to support well-being and resilience for both clinicians and healthcare leaders.
Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.
We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
June 10, 2020
#47 The Unsolvable, Unavoidable, and Indestructible Tension Between Health AND Economy & Individual Freedom AND the Common Good
During this episode we interview our dear friend and colleague Dr. Barry Johnson, the father of Polarity Thinking™ about two crux polarities/tensions we are facing as a nation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The interview is based on two Op-Ed pieces that will be included in Barry’s new book, AND Making a difference by leveraging polarity, paradox, or dilemma- Volume One: Foundations which is to be released this month (June 2020).
The two polarities/tensions we discuss during the interview are Health And Economy and Individual Freedom And theCommon Good.
These two polarities/tensions impact every person in the United States and therefore we urge you to listen to this episode and share it with your family, friends, colleagues, and communities.
This interview can change how you think about these two tensions that we are experiencing daily in our communities and in the country.
We think it’s safe to say we all want a country with healthy people and a healthy economy and at the same time there is a fear that as the pandemic continues we will end up with more unhealthy people and further insult to a declining economy in our country.
The truth is these polarities/tensions were present before the COVID-19 pandemic, and we must manage them now and after the pandemic.
The question is, what can we learn now, during the pandemic, to help us manage them in future?
That is the purpose of this podcast, to help us learn to see these tensions through a new lens, explore why it is important to manage them, and identify how we can manage them better in the future.
A few considerations before listening:
If this is your first time listening to the podcast, you may find it helpful to listen to Episode #1 where we explain polarities before listening to this episode.
The Op-Ed pieces are available in the show notes and if you are in a location where it is possible, we encourage you to download both pieces before you listen to the episode. Barry refers to the Polarity Map® in the Op-Ed pieces during the interview, so it will be helpful to have them in hand.Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions. We may use your question on a future episode.
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT! We were so inspired by the response to our free webinar series that we created a NEW 5-Day Virtual Work Life Balance Bootcamp for Healthcare Leaders. Registration doors are open! The bootcamp begins June 8th! Registration closes June 5th at 5pm EDST. To learn more click here.
We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
June 3, 2020
#46 Balancing the Need to Get Things Done and Strengthening Your Relationships at Work and Home When Nothing is the Same
Have you been more productive during the COVID-19 pandemic or less productive?
Have your relationships improved during the COVID-19 pandemic or are your relationships more strained or non-existent?
In Episode #46 of Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast we talk about the tension between productivity and relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The tension between productivity and relationships is one that all healthcare leaders must manage well if they want to be successful and thrive as a leader.
The pandemic has changed many things for healthcare leaders and these changes require us to reexamine and rediscover how we are going to manage this tension over time and over the course of the pandemic.
When you are facing an unprecedented amount of change, numerous challenges, and new rules every day it can feel overwhelming, so this is an extremely important tension to manage.
We hope you will listen!Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions. We may use your question on a future episode.
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT! We were so inspired by the response to our free webinar series that we created a NEW 5-Day Virtual Work Life Balance Bootcamp for Healthcare Leaders. Registration doors are open! The bootcamp begins June 8th! To learn more click here.
We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
May 27, 2020
#45 During These Unusually Challenging and Troubling Times, Which Are You: A Giver, Receiver or Both?
These are scary and intense times we are in and at the same time there are some wonderful things happening!
In the United States we have been polarized by the differences in our thinking and beliefs and divided in many ways as citizens including isolating ourselves from each other.
Right now, there are people putting those things aside and stepping up and supporting each other. #InThisTogether
In Episode #45 of Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast we talk about the interdependent relationship between giving and receiving.
Without someone to receive there would be no gifts.
We acknowledge and celebrate some of the ways people and organizations are giving.
Maybe you’re someone who would like to give more and you aren’t sure how or you could be someone who could use some assistance but you’re not good at receiving, either way you will find some helpful insights in this episode.
We hope you’ll listen!Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions. We may use your question on a future episode.
We are hosting a free webinar series, Rising Up Above the Crisis as a Resilient Healthcare Leader, to support healthcare leaders during these challenging times. The last webinar occurs May 20th, Living a Balanced Life Through the Hard Times and Beyond. To learn more and register go to www.missinglogic.com/new-events.
We’ve also opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
May 20, 2020
#44 What Do You Risk by Being Overly Flexible with Very Little Structure During the Pandemic?
Right now, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, it can feel like you’ve lost all control over your life. Things feel chaotic, uncertain, and many of us find ourselves facing challenges we never dreamed we’d face in this lifetime.
Our routines have been interrupted drastically at home and at work! Where we had boundaries previously there doesn’t seem to be any and where there were no boundaries there are more!
In this episode we talk about how to manage the tension between structure and flexibility, which is extremely important if you are an overwhelmed leader who feels lost in the chaos and constant change, unable to make choices and feel as though nothing’s getting done.
You want to not only survive this pandemic but thrive as a leader both at work and at home. Thriving leaders manage the tension between having structure and being flexible. This leaves them feeling safe and with a sense of control in life. They feel like they are accomplishing something, achieving the goals they’ve established, and getting the results they desire. Thriving leaders can also cope when they are feeling challenged by all the change or restrictions they are experiencing.
You want to thrive and have those experiences, right?
We talk about how you too can have all of it in this episode.
We hope you’ll listen!
Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions. We may use your question on a future episode.
We are hosting a free webinar series, Rising Up Above the Crisis as a Resilient Healthcare Leader, to support healthcare leaders during these challenging times. The second webinar occurs May 13th, Becoming a Resilient Leader During Unprecedented Times. To learn more and register go to www.missinglogic.com/new-event.
We’ve also opened a private Resilient airs and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis. To join Click here.
May 13, 2020
#43 How Do You Manage the Increasing Tension Between Work and Home When Nothing is the Same and There is No Normal?
This is not the first time we have discussed this chronic tension or polarity.
But work and home balance has a whole new meaning during this COVID19 pandemic.
Society has experienced huge shifts in the workforce leaving the office/organization and working from home to “flatten the curve”.
As healthcare leaders, some of you are working longer hours and shifting work/home placement with other leaders to assure continuity.
The stressors at work and at home have changed dramatically and in unprecedented ways.
The tension between work and home has escalated as the boundaries and rules at work and at home have shifted dramatically.
We hope you will join us as we explore the new realities through a polarity lens.
May 6, 2020
#42 When the Changes You Are Experiencing Are Constant and Profound, What Do You Have to Do to Find Some Stability?
Right now, during the COVID-19 global pandemic, we are in the throes of constant change on the largest scale we have ever experienced as human beings on the planet.
This is probably the most intense and profound change we will experience or witness in our lifetime. There isn’t much across the world that hasn’t changed!
Of course, at the top of the list of changes is social interaction. But we have also experienced changes in travel, education, housing, shopping, healthcare and work environments to name a few.
Where there is change there is tension. The tension between stability and change is natural, universal and a fundamental element of life. It is always present and in times of crisis like COVID-19, the tension can be intense.
In what way are you feeling the tension?
In this episode we explore the tension and interdependent relationship between stability and change at the personal or individual level and how to establish some stability during these times of unprecedented change.
This is especially important if you are an overwhelmed healthcare leader who feels like there is “no gravity”, is trying to keep staff and patients safe, and at the same time is responding to daily changes in processes, infrastructures, and policies.
Managing this tension brought on by unprecedented change is a key element in not only surviving but thriving as a leader during this pandemic.Register for our FREE three-part webinar series Rising Up Above the Crisis as a Resilient Healthcare Leader beginning May 6th. To learn more and register go here.Visit the show notes here for more: https://www.missinglogic.com/podcastLiked the episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts.Join our FREE and PRIVATE Facebook Community Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader. This community was created with the intention to provide a safe space for leaders to connect, share their experiences and support each other.Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the episode and you're the kind of leader who likes to help others, then share this with your colleagues.Also, if you have questions, we'd love to answer them! Send an email to [email protected]
April 29, 2020
#41 Looking Back and Into the Future
We have thoroughly enjoyed hosting Healthcare’s MissingLogic podcast and we want to thank all our listeners for tuning in!
When we started the podcast, we wanted to reach as many healthcare leaders as possible and help them see that Polarity Thinking™ can be applied in almost all situations. So, it warms are heart when a listener leaves us an iTunes review like this one from RD4IPE:
“What a fun and refreshing looks at the healthcare system from the inside out! These ladies bring a critical perspective to the real issues facing healthcare professionals today. Putting on your polarity lens will change the way you see things where you work, where you live and where you play.”
We remain passionate about creating a movement to make Polarity Thinking™ mainstream in healthcare. We know it is needed to create sustainable change and believe it is a competency every leader should have.
After much reflection and careful consideration, we’ve come to the conclusion that while polarities are everywhere in healthcare, we can serve the healthcare community best by narrowing our attention to the personal, professional and organizational polarities that impact burnout and resilience in healthcare leaders.
In this episode, we introduce you to the Dynamic Balance Effect℠. This is a methodology we developed based on over 25 years of experience to help healthcare leaders trade burnout for balance and resilience in their work and personal lives and a methodology you will be hearing more about in future episodes.
As many healthcare leaders across the country support or prepare their organizations to respond to the COVID-19 crisis we will be publishing some episodes focused on personal and work environment polarities being experienced during this time. As we move beyond the current crisis, we will expand our topics to include polarities and other elements essential to a healthy healing organization.
Thank you for listening!
April 22, 2020
#40 Burnout Through the Eyes of an Occupational Therapist Featuring Erika del Pozo
While the burnout crisis is nationwide and impacts all health professions, most of the evidence reported in the literature is focused on physicians and nurses. There is very little known or understood about the experience of other health professionals.
We are so happy to have Erika del Pozo on the podcast today. Erika is an Occupational Therapist and the Founder and CEO of Joy Energy Time, a media and events company, that offers healthcare professionals content and resources around burnout, stress management, healthcare advocacy, holistic wellness and lifestyle.
In this episode with Erika, she shares with us her personal experience with burnout.
Erika sheds some light on what burnout can look like and feel like as well as some of the internal dialogue that can occur when individuals begin to experience the symptoms of burnout.
We also talk about the influence of the healthcare environment, the role of social support, and advocating for yourself.
We hope you’ll join us for this informative and enlightening discussion.
April 15, 2020
#39 How to Reduce Stress, Empower Your Team, and Cultivate a Healthy Work Environment in Times of Crisis
As leaders during this global healthcare crisis, you are experiencing challenges you never dreamed you would face as a leader.
Right now, when expectations are high, outcomes are critical, and you are being asked to take on tasks and projects you know nothing about, is the time to draw on and lead with your strengths.
Leading with your strengths and taping into the strengths of others can reduce stress and enhance feelings of empowerment.
Not everyone has the same strengths and that’s a good thing! What’s most important is that we recognize and leverage our own and the strengths of others in ways that enable us to individually and collectively achieve the results we desire.
It’s also helpful to know your personality type and behavior style along with those of your colleagues and family members. This can give you insights into why you and they act or behave the way they do and why they may be responding to the COVID-19 crisis the way they are.
If we understand each other more fully we can engage with each other in more healthy and productive ways and support each other during challenging and stressful times.
We hope you’ll join us and consider how leveraging your own and other’s strengths, personalities and natural behaviors can be of benefit during these challenging times.
April 8, 2020
#38 How an Intentional and Heart Felt Thank You Changed the Lives of More than a Million Nurses
The World Health Organization has declared 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife.
We are thrilled to have Bonnie Barnes and Cynthia Sweeney from the DAISY Foundation on the podcast today.
The DAISY Foundation was established following a family tragedy to say thank you for the compassionate, sensitive, kind care nurses provide. The DAISY Foundation provides a vehicle to recognize and honor nurses for extraordinary care.
The DAISY Award is a form of meaningful recognition of nursing care that focuses attention on what is good and right in healthcare and is a bright spot for nurses in a challenging and ever-changing healthcare landscape.
This is an inspiring episode that shines a light on how important intention is and how significant the impact can be when we act with intention. We hope you’ll join us.
April 1, 2020
#37 How to Elevate Your Thinking During Challenging Times
We are programmed at an early age to solve problems. We are taught to examine the alternatives and find the “right” answer/solution, to use our “or thinking” to choose either answer/solution A or answer/solution B.
In fact, we are rewarded throughout childhood, adulthood and throughout our professional development and careers for strong problem-solving skills.
But it many instances, as noted by Albert Einstein, “You can’t solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it".
If you’ve listened to our podcast before, you’ve picked up on our core message which is not all challenges you experience are problems, some of them are polarities and to manage a polarity requires and thinking rather than or thinking.
In some situations, the challenge is both a problem and a polarity as is the case with burnout. Burnout is a problem that needs to be solved but underneath the problem is numerous system level and personal polarities.
As a healthcare leader, if you want to successfully address the challenges you face and achieve your desired outcomes, it’s essential that you develop the skill to differentiate between a problem and a polarity, so you can supplement your or thinking with and thinking.
We hope you’ll join us for this episode and learn this essential skill.Click here to join our free Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Facebook Community!
March 25, 2020
#36 Burnout Through the Eyes of a Dietitian Nutritionist Featuring Dr. Katie Eliot
We are so happy to have our friend and colleague Dr. Katie Eliot on the podcast today. Dr. Eliot is a dietitian nutritionist.
While the burnout crisis is nationwide and impacts all health professions most of the evidence reported in the literature is focused on physicians and nurses.
In this episode with Katie we discuss clinician burnout from the dietitian nutritionist perspective.
Katie sheds some light on some of the unique causes of stress and burnout for dietitian nutritionists and for students just entering the profession.
We also discuss clinician burnout from an interprofessional perspective which is Katie’s “jam”. Click here to check out our NEW Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community Facebook Group! This is a private community for healthcare leaders who want to trade burnout for resilience and balance.
March 18, 2020
#35 What's the secret to becoming a thriving and resilient healthcare leader?
It’s an important time to have the conversation in the healthcare environment about the reality of the healthcare leader given the national call to address clinician burnout.
Leaders are you struggling to manage your workload, prioritize all the competing demands and find time for your family? Do you feel responsible for helping the staff but at the same time wonder how much more you can take?
In this episode we talk about healthcare leaders taking care of themselves in order to support and care for their staff.
If you don’t take care of yourself, you won’t be able to help your staff and if you are not already, you may burnout in the long run. You are equally important. You matter. Sacrificing your well-being for the staff isn’t going to help them in the long run. You will not be able to support them, if you are burnt out.
Healthy, thriving organizations start with the individuals who work in them, both leaders and staff.
Taking care of you first can result in you becoming resilient, having a positive sense of well-being, with more energy and enhanced productivity. Taking care of you is an opportunity to learn what it takes, to walk the talk and to role model those behaviors for your staff and your peers. It is difficult to lead others, especially if you have not been on the journey yourself.
Begin your journey by listening to this episode and carefully consider how you can take care of you first and become a thriving, resilient leader.
March 11, 2020
#34 Managing the Tension Between Work and Home: Why You Risk Failure Attempting a 50/50 Balance or Work-Life Integration
Is there anyone who is not trying to manage the tension between WORK and HOME?
Do you feel the tension between focusing on your work and paying attention to what’s happening at home?
We spend most of our waking time at work rather than home! This tension between the two is NOT going away!
We highly value both aspects of our lives, that’s why the tension can seem so daunting or challenging
In today’s podcast we discuss the Work and Home Polarity. This is a key polarity especially given the significant struggles with burnout that healthcare leaders and clinicians are experiencing today. As a leader, if you want to make a difference and enjoy life this is an essential polarity to manage.
Who you are is impacted by both work and home. You don’t walk out the door and leave it all behind, you carry your experiences in both environments with you.
Do you often feel like you are being forced to make a choice? To choose between work and home?
Maybe you feel the stress of trying to get to a 50/50 balance between work and home. Or you attempt work-life integration and try to collapse them into one entity to manage it better.
Work and Home is a polarity. It’s not an either/or choice. A 50/50 balance and work-life integration won’t work. To manage it well you must leverage the tension and energy between these two values.
Listen as we talk about what this WORK and HOME polarity looks like and how to leverage it.
March 4, 2020
#33 Building Resilient Healthcare Organizations from the Inside Out: The Contribution of the Individual and Organization with Heather Graham, LCSW
We are so happy to have our friend and colleague Heather Graham on the podcast today. Heather is a licensed clinical social worker and certified employee assistance professional.
In our conversation with Heather we explore the system and individual polarity in the context of clinician burnout, well-being and resilience.
There are numerous stressors impacting clinician burnout and well-being these days. Recently there has been increases across the board in interpersonal and generalized stress.
Heather shares how an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and services can support employee well-being. These services were developed because of the understanding that personal lives impact professional lives and professional lives impact personal lives.
There are a variety of ways EAP can support both leaders and clinicians in managing the system and individual factors that impact burnout and well-being. EAP services can provide opportunities to balance personal and professional well-being and at the same time maintain professional boundaries that support confidentiality for employees and leaders.
Heather says, “it [Polarity Thinking™] creates resilience, which is the ability to embrace the reality and work around and with it”. This is important “because healthcare organizations need to be resilient from the inside out and you can’t be resilient without the employees being resilient”.
It’s a two-way street. Both the system and the individual clinician contribute. It’s not about owning the personal resilience of clinicians as a system and the clinicians can’t make the system responsible for their personal resilience either.
“You need to build resilience from the leadership down, employees up, from the inside out and outside in” says Heather.
Join us for this informative and thought provoking interview! Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.If you are interested in being the first to know about our group coaching program for healthcare leaders join our early interest list by clicking here.
February 26, 2020
#32 Making a Difference & Enjoying Life as a Healthcare Leader: What do you believe and what kind of choices are you making?
“Tell me what you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver
If you are listening to our podcast, it’s more than likely that at some point in your career path you chose to serve in the healthcare field, and you may have also made the choice to be a leader. If you did so, again it is more than likely that you made that choice because you wanted to contribute to something bigger than yourself.
As a leader you may have felt, or you currently feel, the tension between making a difference and enjoying life.
Sometimes you feel the tension in response to pressures/circumstances, external demands, leader/boss expectations, and sometimes it can be the fear of missing out.
This tension is often persistent and it’s real! The struggle can feel real too!
It’s real and persistent because making a difference and enjoying life is a polarity.
If we aren’t aware of this, we may choose to believe we have to make a choice between the two, in other words we think we can either make a difference or enjoy life.
But when we recognize this tension as a polarity, we know it’s a both/and situation, we can then choose to make a difference and enjoy life!
Join us for this episode as we explore the Making a Difference and Enjoying Life Polarity and why it’s important to leverage this polarity and the unintended consequences if you don’t.
We also have not one, but two, FREE resources for you! Listen all the way through to find out how to gain access to them.
February 19, 2020
#31 Do you know what's in the landmark report on Clinician Burnout from the National Academy of Medicine? A behind the scenes interview with Charlee Alexander
We are so excited to have Charlee Alexander from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) with us on the podcast today.
Charlee gave us a behind the scenes take on the NAM Action Collaborative and the work that began in 2017 to not only address clinician burnout but to shine a light on the issue, improve our understanding of the challenges, and accelerate evidence-based solutions.
The development of the Action Collaborative enabled multiple stakeholders to come together around a common purpose and develop a systems approach versus multiple isolated approaches across a variety of professions and professional organizations.
Charlee and the Action Collaborative were wise to recognize that they did not have all the information, ideas, or answers and they needed others outside of the Collaborative to contribute. This resulted in NAM pioneering the development of Networking Organizations as unique way for leaders and organizations to contribute to the collective effort (see the show notes for the link).
The NAM Consensus Report -Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being was released in October of 2019 and is considered as significant as previous IOM landmark reports such as To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century.
Charlee states “I hope the report kind of anchors us to the systems change that we need to undertake and provides a platform for us to kind of set aside our differences from our different stakeholder groups and to see what the massive charge is a head of us and to know we can only do that if we work together”.
Join us for this informative and enlightening interview.
February 12, 2020
#30 Breaking Free from Yesterday's Logic: The Essentials for Leadership Development, Innovation, and Future-Focused Thinking with Dr. Daniel J. Pesut
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence, it’s to act with yesterday’s logic”. Peter Drucker
What logic are you using as a leader to address today’s challenges or to prepare for tomorrow?
We are so excited to have Dr. Daniel Pesut with us on the podcast today to share his knowledge and expertise regarding healthcare and nursing leadership and the different models and ways of thinking that are essential for today’s and tomorrow’s leaders.
Dr. Pesut encourages futures work at the personal, professional, organizational, and planetary levels. He provides resources and direction for this body of work through the Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Pesut notes “Things are changing so rapidly and there are so many disruptions you’ve got to be able to anticipate things. You can anticipate hard trends. We need to have requisite variety. We can’t use the same things we have in the past because the dynamics, people, situations, stakes, and the metrics are different”.
Are you embracing new models and innovative ways of thinking as you navigate disruption and rapid change?
During this interview we explore numerous models and ways of thinking that are essential competencies for future leaders.
This interview is jam packed with pearls of leadership wisdom and inspiration, so be sure to join us!
February 5, 2020
#29 The Tension Between Technology and Practice: Where We Started, Where We are Now, and What's at Risk without Both/And Choices
We are so excited to have Dr. Cathy Ivory on the podcast with us today. She brings her expertise and knowledge in nursing practice, health informatics and research to the conversation around the technology and practice polarity in healthcare. We’re talking today about the strong tension between the domains of technology and practice and how often one is disregarded or more highly regarded than the other.
“It is important to think about both [practice and technology] whenever we are making a decision about one or the other, that it is a yes/and, not an either/or” says Dr. Cathy Ivory.
Dr. Ivory shares her experience and perspectives on the healthcare technology journey, specifically related to the electronic health record, and what has informed and influenced our experiences to date.
We discuss change as well as change management and how we handle change as an influencing force in both practice and technology.
When design principles and governance are leveraged it enables the technology to support practice.
Based on her experience Dr. Ivory says, “You can have practice and technology folks [on the governance team] but if they don’t have a little bit of understanding of the others perspective you won’t ever be able to come to a solution that is sustainable”.
Dr. Ivory shares a story of an interprofessional innovative fall risk approach as an example of leveraging technology to support practice.
As an executive herself, Dr. Ivory shares how important it is for nurse executive leaders to understand baseline informatics competencies/principles and not abdicate the responsibility to be competent to make health IT related decisions.
Join us for this informative and thought-provoking interview.
January 29, 2020
#28 How Leaders Can Leverage a Polarity Mindset to Develop Strong Teams and Cultivate Psychological Safety featuring Diane Hanson
Today we are talking about Polarity Thinking™ as an essential leadership skill.
Let’s face it. Leadership is not easy!
All leaders can use tools and skills to enhance their effectiveness, change the conversations they’re having and transform their leadership style.
We are blessed to have Diane Hanson with us today. Diane has leveraged polarities in her personal and professional life for over 20 years and has a lot of wisdom to share with us.
“Once you understand and believe in the logic and predictability of Polarity Thinking™ you are able to move toward sustainable outcomes” says Diane.
Diane shares many stories of how she’s leveraged polarities personally, professionally and as a community leader.
Polarity Thinking™ has shaped Diane as a leader and broadened her ability to leverage diversity and help teams get to deeper understanding and agreement much sooner.
“When you lead teams, you have a greater opportunity for success when you incorporate Polarity Thinking™” Diane Hanson
Diane believes a great place to start practicing your polarity thinking skills is with personal polarities or ones that are simple and meaningful to you. Look at what’s showing up in your life through a polarity lens and then examine your perspectives, preferences and fears to gather deeper insights.
Join us as we discuss with Diane how leaders can leverage polarities to strengthen their leadership skills, enhance teamwork, and cultivate psychological safety in the workplace.
January 21, 2020
#27 Who Is Practice Ready? Challenging the Status Quo in Higher Education and Examining the Education and Practice Gap featuring Dr. Susan Hanrahan
We are so excited to have Dr. Susan Hanrahan on the podcast with us today.
We’re talking today about preparing the future workforce for the 21st Century.
As Dr. Hanrahan pointed out, we are already in the 21st Century, so we are already behind! That’s why these kinds of conversations are so important.
Dr. Susan Hanrahan shares some new ideas about higher education and what’s missing and what’s needed to prepare the future workforce.
She challenges the status quo and shares some fresh, progressive and thought-provoking ideas.
There are two basic tenets that Dr. Hanrahan has believed during her years in practice and academia. The first is reimbursement (3rd party) drives practice, which impacts workforce needs, and the second is practice should drive education
Healthcare market drivers and the reaction to those drivers in practice environments are significant but we also need to think about those factors in conjunction with what’s happening in health professions education to figure out what’s still missing to get clinicians practice ready
This represents the interdependent relationship between interprofessional education and interprofessional collaborative practice
Different higher order mental skills and cognitive capacities are needed to prepare the future workforce and advance the ability to be practice ready
“We are operating and teaching at way too low a level for the real world” Susan Hanrahan, PhD
Join us for this rich and inspiring interview exploring new types of education requirements, literacies and higher order mental skills that are needed to prepare the health professions workforce to be practice ready.
January 15, 2020
#26 Perceptions of Leader Empathy and the Relationship to Patient and Clinician Satisfaction with Dr. Wilma Powell Stuart and Dr. Bridget Moore
Today we are talking about the role of empathy and leadership in patient satisfaction and clinician satisfaction.
As clinicians we are empathetic with the patients and the families we serve.
Who empathizes with clinicians?
There isn’t much known about how clinicians receive or perceive empathy from others.
We are excited to have our guests Dr. Wilma Powell Stuart and Dr. Bridget Moore share their passion for empathy in the workplace as well as how they have combined empathy and Polarity Thinking™.
These scholars have done some interesting work around looking at staff perceptions of leader empathy in relationship to patient satisfaction and clinician satisfaction.
The results of their study may cause you to pause, if you are a leader, and do some reflecting.
Join us as we discuss what leaders need to consider when it comes to empathy for their employees and how leaders can benefit from and leverage Polarity Thinking™ in their roles.
January 8, 2020
#25 A Personal and Professional Story about Clinician Burnout and Resilience featuring Dr. Miguel Paniagua
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
We are so excited to kick off the New Year with Dr. Miguel Paniagua sharing his personal and professional story about Burnout and Clinician Well-Being & Resilience
Clinician burnout is a unique and personal journey for anyone who experiences it.
Lives are at stake! Not just clinician’s lives but patient's lives.
We now know that poor provider wellness leads to medical errors.
We are fortunate to have Dr. Paniagua to share his personal experience, hitting rock bottom and how it has informed his current work.
Professionally Dr. Paniagua is leading efforts at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) to understand the stress of high-stake exams and the affect on student well-being, which he shares with us during the interview.
Join us for this enlightening conversation with Dr. Paniagua as we talk about the realities of clinician burnout and the system and individual factors that can support clinician well-being & resilience.
January 1, 2020
# 24 Directive and Participative Decision-Making: Using a polarity lens to discuss what’s in it for you and your team and what’s at risk
How involved are you in the decisions that impact your work environment? If you are a leader, are you engaging the clinicians in decision-making?
Decisions are made every day in healthcare by clinicians and by leaders. Some of those decisions can have a major impact on the culture and clinical outcomes.
Today we are discussing the Directive and Participative Decision-Making polarity in the context of healthcare leadership.
All decisions should be made to serve the mission with an intention to have a positive impact.
The reality is, it is not always easy to do! It’s a process, a dance between the directive and participative decisions and having clear boundaries.
Join us as we talk about this critical polarity and some of the realities faced when working toward this type of decision-making.
December 24, 2019
#23 Patient and Clinician Safety in Hospitals Today: A Chief Nursing Officer’s experience and perspective featuring Liz Murphy
When it comes to patient and clinician safety, what’s keeping you up at night?
Are the clinician’s in your organization at risk? Is their safety being threatened?
Patient safety has been on the minds of healthcare leaders across the United States ever since the Institute of Medicine published the landmark report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System.More recently there is increasing concern about clinician safety.
Clinician harm is escalating.
Are we doing enough to keep clinician safe? Do we have the right safeguards in place?
In this episode we talk with Liz Murphy an experienced CNO from a large hospital in Western Michigan.
Liz shares her insights and experiences around clinician safety and examples of processes, and practices for keeping clinicians safe.
Join us to learn more about the safety challenges and some innovative practices to maintain safety for both patients and clinicians.
December 18, 2019
#22 How to Leverage the Individual and Team Tension that Exists in Today’s Healthcare Environments featuring Tony Suchman, MD.
No one health professional can be responsible for the delivery of quality safe care, but many have not been prepared to work in teams.
This is one of the greatest challenges faced in healthcare today.
There is a lot to learn about leveraging this tension between individual and team in today’s healthcare environments.
Experiences vary greatly across the country from one healthcare organization or practice to another.
What are you experiencing?
In this episode, we interview Dr. Tony Suchman, an organizational change and transformation expert. Tony shares with us his experiences and perspectives as a physician regarding the tension between individuals and teams in healthcare.
He talks about the realities from a physician perspective and those things that have historically influenced the ability of physicians to work in teams.
He also encourages all of us to consider the importance of systems thinking, culture, and leadership when it comes to supporting both individuals and teams.
We discuss the various strategies like team training, service lines, and financial incentives being implemented, and how these initiatives are influencing the advancement of teamwork.
“There is no care without individuals, but at the same time there is no individual who can give care all by him or herself”. Dr. Tony Suchman
This is the heart of the individual and team polarity.
Join us for this very thought provoking and enlightening conversation.
December 11, 2019
#21 Rapid Rollout of EHRs: Insights into the nursing experience from a statewide study with Dr. Susan McBride and Dr. Mari Tietze
There is no turning back now! We are in the digital age and electronic health records (EHRs) are here to stay!
What is important now is looking at the results or outcomes of the rapid implementation of the EHRs. The lens we use to examine the outcomes can have serious implications for future strategies.
In this episode we talk with Dr. Susan McBride and Dr. Mary Tietze, two nurse informatics scholars from Texas who share our passion for health information technology and interprofessional practice.
The focus of our conversation today is the landmark, statewide study they conducted assessing the experience of nurses with the electronic health record in Texas.
This is powerful work resulted from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) ACT and a key question, “What is going to happen to nursing?”
What they learned has informed strategies to improve nurse satisfaction and is influencing policy recommendations nationally. It also revealed the existence of the technology and practice platform polarity.
Join us as we learn about the results from this landmark study and discuss the significance of using a polarity lens.
December 4, 2019
#20 Stop Stressing and Start Managing the Constant Tension Between Margin and Mission in Today’s Healthcare Climate
Are you feeling the tension between serving the mission while maintaining the margin?
It is a stressful time for leaders as they worry about delivering quality, safe care, reducing clinician burden, improving patient and family experiences and at the same time dealing with changing reimbursement models and financial constraints.
As a leader, do you feel like you don’t have enough fingers to plug the numerous holes in the dike?
The truth is, these challenges are not isolated problems. They represent polarities, interdependent pairs or tensions that are related to one larger polarity.
We posit the Margin and Mission polarity is the overarching polarity in healthcare today and many other polarities co-exist beneath this polarity.
Join us as we discuss the interdependent relationship between margin and mission, the internal and external factors that are impacting both and some simultaneous action steps to gain or maintain positive outcomes.
November 27, 2019
#19 Partnership Infrastructures: A key Strategy for Leveraging the Vertical and Horizontal Relationship Polarity with Bonnie Wesorick
Have you ever wondered how healthcare organizations became so hierarchical or why we struggle with hierarchical relationships in our healthcare environments?
In today’s episode, we discuss the vertical (hierarchy) and horizontal (partnership) relationship polarity in healthcare settings with Bonnie Wesorick.
Bonnie has over 40 years of experience in helping organizations establish partnership infrastructures that lead to the creation of healthy cultures.
There is a long history in the evolution of the hierarchical cultures in healthcare and Bonnie sheds some light on this history in addition to helping us understand why it has persisted over time.
“It [the hierarchical relationships] seemed appropriate, until it didn’t” said Bonnie Wesorick.
When we experience hierarchical relationships as negative or as a problem, it’s natural to want to move away from the experience and toward the opposite, more partnering relationships.
Do you know what it means or takes to have partnering relationships?
Organizational leaders sometimes say relationship building is the “soft” stuff, but it is the hardest work.
Ever wonder why partnering relationships are so hard to develop and maintain?
Partnering relationships don’t just happen. The development of partnering relationships requires an intentionally designed infrastructure.
We discuss with Bonnie the role intentionally designed infrastructures play in providing a place for connection, focus on the shared mission, and skill development and the impact they have on creating a healthy culture.
Join us for this enlightening conversation and the lessons learned across the span of more than 40 years of creating partnership infrastructures and healthy cultures.
November 20, 2019
#18 Unique and Innovative Strategies for Overcoming Never-Ending and Common Healthcare Staffing Challenges with Laurie Shiparski
Ever had the feeling that everything and nothing has changed at the same time?
That’s how we felt during this episode as we talked with Laurie Shiparski about staffing challenges and the recruitment and retention polarity.
While challenges with staffing in healthcare haven’t changed much over the past 20 years there are unique and innovative strategies that can be used to leverage the recruitment and retention polarity that lies beneath the staffing problem.
Laurie is a Principle at Edgework Institute and has done a tremendous amount of work in the healthcare field on the recruitment and retention polarity within healthcare organizations.
Laurie is a master at leveraging polarities, and she takes a creative approach to helping organizations solve the staffing problem by leveraging the recruitment and retention polarity. There are big dynamics operating under staffing problems that can be strategically addressed.
Resistance is a part of the process and Laurie recommends you name it, expect it and use it to move forward.
Listen as Laurie shares her experiences and strategies for taking action to leverage the recruitment and retention polarity and how to learn from and leverage the wisdom in resistance.
November 13, 2019
#17 What about the patient experience? Afterthoughts with Anne Chamberlin
In one of our previous episodes our guest, Ben Moulton said “Patients are the co-pilot in the airplane called better healthcare”
In a person-centered approach to care hearing the person’s voice and engaging them in decision-making is critical.
How often do we hear the patient’s story? We gather patient data but are we asking patients to tell their story, to convey their experiences, and are we listening and learning from those experiences when they are told?
What is it costing, if we aren’t truly listening?
In today’s episode, we are fortunate to talk with Anne Chamberlin. Ann shares her healthcare story and her experiences battling stage 4 cancer not once, but twice!
She helps us to shine a light on the patient and clinician satisfaction polarity from the patient’s perspective.
This is an excellent opportunity to hear from the patient what really matters and what supports and inhibits a quality patient experience.
November 6, 2019
#16 Combating Clinician Burnout with a Wellness Culture: The Time is Now!
In today’s episode our conversation focuses on strategies related to well-being and resilience.
Clinician burnout is a significant issue and it is getting a lot of attention right now.
Unfortunately, 50% of the clinicians including nursing and physicians are experiencing burnout.
We are very fortunate to have Dr. Bernadette Melnyk from The Ohio State University on the show today. Dr. Melnyk is an inspiring leader who is blazing a significant well-being and resilience trail at OSU as the very first Chief Wellness Officer in the country!
As clinicians we tend to take care of everybody else and neglect our own self-care. Sound familiar?
The challenges with burnout aren’t going away without intention and attention.
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) formerly the Institute of Medicine has created an Action Collaborative to raise visibility of clinician burnout, suicide, stress, depression and anxiety; improve the baseline understanding and challenges of well-being and advance evidence-based multidisciplinary solutions to improve patient care by caring for the caregiver.
There are system issues that need to be addressed and individual factors that require attention at the same time. Hmmm…sounds like a polarity!
Join us to hear Dr. Melnyk share her experience with creating a culture of well-being and sheds some light on how others can begin the journey.
October 30, 2019
#15 What Nobody Tells You About Aligning Interprofessional Education and Practice
There is a call for alignment between education and the healthcare delivery system
This alignment has been recognized as a critical component in efforts to improve health and the healthcare system.
To this point most of the interprofessional work has occurred in education with the intention to drive changes in healthcare.
If positive changes in healthcare are to occur, it must come from an alignment between practice and education.
90-95 % of the current workforce has potentially not participated in interprofessional education
There appears to be a gap in awareness on the practice side of what has been occurring with interprofessional education and a lack of interprofessional practice champions in healthcare organizations
There is a truth in the interprofessional education and collaborative practice polarity that enables you to look at it differently
There is a lot of work to be done even though efforts have been going on for over 50 years.
Listen as Michelle and Tracy talk with Dr. Tony Breitbach about what’s happening nationally and what’s needed to address the challenges discussed.
October 23, 2019
#14 Are You Sacrificing your SELF for OTHERS?
Is there anyone who is not trying to manage the relationship between SELF and OTHERS?
In today’s podcast we discuss the SELF and OTHER Polarity. This one show’s up in all aspects of life.
We can feel the tension between SELF and OTHER at work as clinicians and leaders. The SELF and OTHER tension can also be felt at home as parents or in our marriages or relationships.
This is NOT going away!
Do you often feel like you are being forced to make a choice? To choose between yourself and caring or focusing on others?
Maybe you feel the stress of trying to get to a 50/50 balance between both.
Good news! It’s not an either/or choice! You can also forget trying to find a 50/50 balance! This is a polarity and all it requires is awareness and vigilance to create a dynamic balance and leverage the tension.
Listen as we talk about what this SELF and OTHERS polarity looks like and how to leverage it.Go to here to down load the SELF and OTHER Polarity Map and Reflection Worksheet.
October 16, 2019
#13 The Role of Directive and Shared Decision-Making in Person-Centered Care
“Patients are the co-pilot in the airplane called better healthcare” Ben Moulton
This is a very interesting episode because today we’re talking with Dr. Glyn Elwyn a physician/researcher and Ben Moulton a lawyer/patient advocate about the Directive and Shared Decision-Making Polarity.
This polarity can show up in different contexts, leaders and employees, parents and children, but today we are discussing this polarity within the context of decision-making between the provider and patient/family.
At the heart of person-centered care is partnering with individuals and their families in planning, developing and monitoring care in a way that best meets their needs and is considerate of their preferences.
To be person-centered individuals need to not only act in a person-centered manner but also think in that way.
Historically the provider was the expert and had the answers and directed the care and patients/families were followers or passive participants.
Today there is a desire to have decision-making be an experience where the expertise of the provider along with the values, beliefs and needs of the patient/family are leveraged.
The challenge is providers and patients and families aren’t always equipped to engage in shared decision-making.
Glyn and Ben share with us what is happening nationally in support of shared decision-making and how decision aides can prepare both providers and patients/families to participate in the shared decision-making process.
October 9, 2019
#12 The Upside and Downside of Health Information Technology
This polarity is a “BIGGY” listeners!
Today we are talking about the technology platform and practice platform polarity.
We have 20 years of experience with this polarity. We’ve used health information technology at the point of care as clinicians, lead implementations of technology and practice frameworks in hospitals, developed evidence-based content to integrate into the electronic health record and participated on one of the first design teams for the electronic health record.
We recognized early on health information technology needs to be intentionally designed to support professional practice and patient-centered care.
During this episode Michelle and Tracy share lessons learned over the past 20 years and discuss today’s health information technology realities.
Healthcare needs a strong technology platform and a strong practice platform if we expect to provide safe, efficient, person-centered, quality care.
As a generation, today’s healthcare leaders were the pioneers that took the first steps to implement health information technology in healthcare. Now when leaders step back, it gives them an opportunity to look at what’s been learned and where we are nationally in leveraging this polarity.
October 2, 2019
#11 Why we need an I in Team
Have you ever heard of the phrase, “There is no I in team”?
Well, there is an “I in Individual”, and teams are made up of individuals. So, in reality, there is an I in Team!
Nationally leaders are looking to team-based care as one of the solutions to poor quality care. There is an emphasis on moving away from individual autonomous care to team-based care. What leaders don’t realize is individual and team is a polarity that needs to be leveraged.
“Individual and Team” represent an interdependent pair of values that are very powerful when leveraged well.
We often don’t see individual and Team through a polarity lens, which is why it is important to shine a light on it and explore its significance during times of complex change in healthcare.
During this podcast we explore this crux polarity within the context of the clinical healthcare team. It is a significant polarity today with the national focus on improving the quality of care and moving to value-based care.
Value-based care calls for collaborative teamwork. However, most of the current workforce is not prepared to practice as a team.
Tracy and Michelle share their experience as interprofessional clinicians and colleagues. They give insight on ways to leverage and manage the Individual and Team polarity over time to achieve sustainable outcomes.
Episode Summary Points:
· Why we need an I in Team
· There is a common goal when working as a team
· Major influencing factors have shifted the focus to team-based care
· There is lack of progress in achieving the IOM recommendations
· Moving from volume to value-based care increases the tension, especially when using a problem-solving lens
· Majority of current workforce is not prepared to practice as a team
· Everyone has a preference pole
· Leveraging Individual and Team helps to achieve the Quadruple Aim
· Using a problem-solving lens is preventing progress and achievement of sustainable results.
Teaching Points:
· Individual and Team represent two different poles, both are equally important
· Be aware of your preference pole especially if you are a leader in a power position because you can heavily influence how the individual and team polarity is experienced.
· Listen for “from-to” statements, it may indicate a polarity exists
September 25, 2019
#10 Unleashing the Power of the Margin and Mission Polarity in Complex Care
In this episode we focus on an over-arching healthcare polarity. The Margin and Mission Polarity. Everyone in healthcare is impacted by this polarity.
Both Margin and Mission must to be present for the system to be sustainable and provide the healthcare we need.
Today we're looking at this polarity within the context of complex care and social needs.
During this episode we talk with Lauran Hardin. Lauran is a leader at the National Center for Complex Care and Social Needs. The center is the home for complex care and is transforming care for people with complex health and social needs.
Lauran is guiding and coaching leaders every day out in the field to manage this polarity. Her stories and insights are enlightening and inspiring.
Lauan shares with listeners why it’s important to understand the importance of the margin and mission polarity when creating programs that impact utilization and revenue.
Powerful change and transformation can occur when you understand and marshal the power of both sides of the margin and mission polarity. Lauran shares some stories that will leave you with a feeling of hope.
Join us to learn from Lauran as she shares case studies and outcomes from the world of complex care and social needs.
September 18, 2019
#9 Interprofessional Collaboration: The Upside of Hierarchy
Relationships are a critical element of interprofessional collaboration.
In today’s episode, we discuss hierarchy and partnership within the context of interprofessional collaboration in the healthcare setting.
There is a long history in the evolution of the health professions and how they work together that is rooted in social class and gender differences.
There is extensive literature describing the status inequities and power imbalances between physicians, nurses and other health professionals that exist today.
Historically these differences resulted in a hierarchical power structure within healthcare with the physician in the most superior position of the structure. Interprofessional collaboration and team processes challenge this hierarchical power structure.
Health professionals bump up against the tension between hierarchy and partnership every day as they try to work in collaborative ways.
When we experience hierarchical relationships as negative or as a problem, it’s natural to want to move away from the experience and toward the opposite, a more partnering relationship.
There is an upside to hierarchical relationships that we are at risk of losing if we over emphasize partnerships.
We need both hierarchical and partnering relationships to establish a healthy interprofessional collaborative culture.
September 11, 2019
#8 Patient and Clinician Safety from a Patient’s Point of View
We were so excited to have Vicky Schmidt join us for this episode. Vicky has experienced some of the very best of care and some of the worst care over the past 18 years. She is a patient advocate for person-centered care and has shared her story with thousands.
During this episode Vicky helps us shine a light on the patient and clinician safety polarity from a patient perspective.
This is a significant polarity in healthcare and on the minds of clinicians and healthcare leaders everywhere.
The greater purpose of managing the patient and clinician safety polarity is to create a culture of safety for both those that give and receive care.
Looking at safety in healthcare through the eyes of someone who has been engaged with and experienced healthcare from across the continuum was enlightening and informative.
September 4, 2019
#7 What you want to know about solving the staffing problem
Is there ever a time when staffing is not being addressed?
Having adequate staff is a critical component of healthcare. It is more significant than in any other industry probably. In other industries when someone doesn’t show up for work or you have a few vacancies you may be able to shift things and it’s not that big of a deal (at least it's not life threatening) or you are able to make things work. In healthcare, when there are staffing issues, the potential for harm to others increases and satisfaction is challenged both for patients and for clinicians.
There is no one solution or silver bullet to addressing staffing problems! There is a “short game” and a “long game”. In the short game you are finding solutions to the problem of not having enough staff and in the long game you are managing the polarities that are beneath the staffing problem as a proactive strategy to avoid experiencing the problem.
During this episode Tracy and Michelle talk about the recruitment and retention polarity that lies beneath the staffing problem. Managing and leveraging this polarity is the “long game” approach to staffing challenges.
August 28, 2019
#6 The Holy Grail: Managing Taking Care of Self and Taking Care of Others
In this episode we focus on a personal level polarity that we believe is universal. We venture to say that there isn’t anyone who isn’t or hasn’t been impacted by this polarity. Clinicians especially, because caring for others is at the core of our roles and responsibilities. Some individuals become clinicians because of their desire to care for others or to serve others or because they feel called to do so.
In healthcare today leaders and clinicians are facing significant challenges such as increasing suicide rates, burnout and moral distress. In addition, some are members of the “sandwich generation”, taking care of kids and parents! Because this is a polarity, we know it won’t go away, so learning to leverage it is the best option for all.
Taking care of self and taking care of others occurs in a lot of different contexts. We experience it as healthcare clinicians, as parents, and as leaders.
During this episode we talk with Dr. Diane Gilbert Bradley about her experiences with managing and leveraging the self and other polarity as she navigated her way through medical school, being a rehab medicine physician and as a corporate executive.
August 21, 2019
#5 Interprofessional Education and Interprofessional Collaborative Practice: Why isn't it sustainable?
Both of us have spent a good portion of our careers developing and helping organizations implement tools, processes and infrastructures that support interprofessional education and collaborative practice. As you might guess this is a topic that is near and dear to our hearts. During the episode we talk about how the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System (1999); Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (2001) and Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality (2003), served to heighten the awareness of concerns about safe, quality, cost-effective care within the United States healthcare system. These reports also reinforced the need for interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP).
We talk about what is being learned and the current realities educators and leaders are facing. Recent reports indicate the traditional cultures and practices in healthcare settings do not support ICP (Brandt, KItto, & Cervero, in press) and those who have experienced IPE go into practice settings that do not support what they have learned. IPE and ICP represent an interdependent pair. Both are necessary to prepare the future and the current workforce to work collaboratively.
Achieving the national goals of safe, quality, efficient, effective care will require a healthcare workforce prepared and supported to work collaboratively. Managing the IPE and ICP polarity is key in achieving sustainable outcomes. Leveraging strong partnering relationships between practice and education leaders may be one way to manage the IPE/ICP polarity and support current and future workforce preparation.
August 14, 2019
#4 Recognizing the Significance of Caregiver Burden
We were so excited to have Dr. Erin Craft-Otterbacher join us for this episode. Erin is a new Family Practice DNP graduate. She is a very bright, knowledgeable young lady who we know you will enjoy learning from and listening to.
During this episode Erin helps us shine a light on caregiver burden and the need to manage the tension between the needs of the caregiver and the needs of the care recipient.
Managing the tension between this pair of needs is an emerging and significant polarity in healthcare. The polarity is universal. Most of us have had caregiver experiences or even care recipient experiences. More and more middle-aged adults are becoming members of the “sandwich generation” and feeling the squeeze and burden of caring for aging parents and children at the same time.
Have you felt this tension or do you know someone who has?Join us as we talk about the negative consequences from neglecting the needs of the caregiver, the potential negative and devastating outcomes that can manifest and the call to recognize this significant and highly valuable role of caregivers.
August 7, 2019
# 3 Patient and Clinician Satisfaction: It's not an either or choice
Today we are exploring a major crux polarity in the healthcare system that is often looked at as two separate or independent issues. The topic today is the patient satisfaction and clinician satisfaction polarity. While this pair appears to be opposites, they have an interdependent relationship. Achieving positive sustainable outcomes cannot be accomplished by focusing on one or the other – heck no! It’s a both/and opportunity.
In this episode we will discuss the current realities surrounding this polarity. Why an over-emphasis on patient satisfaction actually got healthcare leaders into trouble over time and how the Triple Aim may have contributed to our current realities.
This episode invites you to consider your own experience as a healthcare leader and/or practicing clinician and expand your thinking to see patient and clinician satisfaction as a “good tension” that can be leveraged to create organizations that are the best for patients to receive care and for clinicians give care. If you are a first time listener, we suggest you listen to Episode #1 to gain a foundational understanding of polarities before listening to other episodes.
July 25, 2019
#2 An interview with Polarity Thinking™ Living Legends
We are so grateful to have two “living legends” as our first guests on the podcast, Dr. Barry Johnson and Bonnie Wesorick. They are both phenomenal leaders whose life’s work has been to bring Polarity Thinking™ to the world. We are blessed to have them as our mentors, colleagues and friends!
During the interview Barry shares how the original Polarity Map® emerged in 1975 and how the work has expanded globally. Barry partnered with Bonnie Wesorick in the 1990’s as she recognized the significance of managing polarities to achieve healthcare transformation. Bonnie shares her journey in supporting a consortium of over 400 healthcare organizations in applying Polarity Thinking™ and how that led to the development of the first healthcare specific Polarity Assessment™ .
If you are a first time listener, we suggest you listen to Episode #1 to gain a foundational understanding of polarities before listening to other episodes.
July 25, 2019
#1 Introduction to Healthcare's MissingLogic Podcast
In this introductory episode, Tracy and Michelle share their 30+ years experience with healthcare transformation and how they are “mad as hell” about the wasted time, money and resources spent on addressing the same challenges over and over. It is hard to take when you know it doesn’t have to be that way.
As healthcare clinicians, leaders and educators we are excellent problems solvers, so why do we face the same challenges over and over? It’s because not every challenge is a problem that can be solved! Some challenges are polarities and polarities can’t be solved, they need to be managed and leveraged.
Healthcare’s “missing logic” is recognizing that problem solving is not enough and healthcare leaders need to look at their current challenges through a new lens! When you misdiagnose a polarity as a problem you are 100% guaranteed to fail over time. Healthcare leaders must compliment their problem solving skills with Polarity Thinking™ to recognize, leverage and manage polarities so they can achieve sustainable positive outcomes.
Tracy and Michelle invite you to join them in the movement to make Polarity Thinking™ mainstream in healthcare and listen to them each week as they discuss the crux polarities in healthcare.
July 25, 2019
About Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast
This is the only podcast that shows healthcare leaders how to apply Polarity Thinking, the MissingLogic in healthcare, to their reoccurring challenges, so they can stop wasting time, money, and resources on fixes that fail.
If you are a leader who wants to create a Healthy Healing Organization where staff and leaders thrive and perform at the highest level, where values are aligned, outcomes are sustainable, and the highest quality of care is delivered, then this podcast is for you.
Each week listeners learn how to leverage a polarity mindset and lens to explore every-day challenges from the leaders who are striving to manage them.
If you are a leader who wants to create a Healthy Healing Organization where staff and leaders thrive and perform at the highest level, where values are aligned, outcomes are sustainable, and the highest quality of care is delivered, then this podcast is for you.
Each week listeners learn how to leverage a polarity mindset and lens to explore every-day challenges from the leaders who are striving to manage them.
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