How To Brand Yourself

You are a diamond in the rough.

You’ve been in the same position for seven years and wonder why no one sees the good things you’ve accomplished, and you want to progress in your career.

You feel like you can make a bigger difference in the organization, but you’re not experiencing the success you need because you haven’t branded yourself the right way.

It’s time for you to toot your own horn.

3 Ways to Become a More Creative Leader

Being stuck in the status quo can have a negative impact on your team’s performance because nobody’s bringing anything new to the table.

When you get stuck doing things the same way they’ve always been done, you produce the same results and you won’t find much success as a leader.

Doing the same things doesn’t allow us to overcome new challenges.

Why You Need A Coach 

Every person that reaches their highest level of success has a coach. If you want to become a more successful executive, find a coach.

How to Speak Up

We’ve all seen things happen at work that concern us.
They may concern us so greatly that we want to speak up about it but don’t know how.
When people do things they should not be doing, it does not aid in the betterment of the organization or the people you serve.
It happens over and over again and sometimes it’s hard to speak up.

How To Grow In Your Specialty 

If you’ve been in the same job, doing the same thing in the same organization for 15 years, then you’re not really good at your job.

If you were good, you would’ve outgrown the position.

Someone would be looking to give you a higher position or you’d be tired of doing the same thing and seek a new position.

If you’ve been in the same job, doing the same thing in the same organization for 15 years, you’ve gotten good enough to get by and that’s the worst place to be as a leader.

You’re comfortable and eventually will be replaceable.

So, how do you grow to be more successful in your specialty?

This could mean a higher promotion or a larger salary.

There are many ways to grow in your specialty and you must work to or you’ll be yesterday’s news.

6 Books Every Leader Should Read 

I often get asked my opinion on the best books for leadership development.

If you’re leading a team, you can never stop growing as a leader.

Your self development process is paramount to your success as a leader.

If you don’t invest in your personal development, your team will lose confidence in you.

They won’t trust you and they won’t admire or value you as a leader.

So what are you doing right now to develop yourself as a leader?

What are you reading?

4 Tips for First Time Leaders 

I often get asked what advice I’d give to people advancing into a leadership position for the first time.

As a first-time leader, it’s really important that you get a strong foundation.

If you don’t get off on the right foot as a new leader, you’ll run into challenges.

Your team won’t have any confidence in your ability and they won’t believe you deserve the position.

When this happens, they’ll come up with their own ideas.

They’ll veer from the pathway that you’re trying to lead them on.

They may decide that they don’t want to work for someone that doesn’t have the skillset to be a leader.

Then, they’ll leave you.

If you don’t get good advice as a new leader, you’ll struggle.

Here are four tips that I give to every first-time leader.

How To Share Positive Feedback With Your Team

Your team is everything.

You would not be where you are without your team.

You’re the one that gets all the credit, when things go right.

They’re the ones that get all the blame when things go wrong.

This creates an environment where your team doesn’t feel like their success is tied to your success.

And that’s because you don’t give enough positive feedback.

Positive feedback helps people improve, become more productive and be more deeply engaged at work.

Here are three keys for sharing positive feedback with your team.

How to Become an Effective Communicator – Anton Gunn

You need to get better with your communication when it comes to leading your team. 
 
In a time like this, where things are going so fast and we’re dealing with many different challenges; communication is at a premium. 
 
So, it needs to be efficient. 
 
It needs to be effective and the message needs to be received. 
 
People are not able to execute when there’s not good communication amongst your team. 
 
Many things could go wrong, especially in healthcare. 
 
People can die if you don’t have good communication.  
 
Here are a few things to think about as you communicate with your team. 

How To Prepare For The Next Crisis | Anton Gunn

Everybody is worried about what the next crisis is going to be. 
 
It seems like for the last two years, we’ve been hit with nonstop crisis. 
 
We’re managing in a ‘new normal’, continuously thinking about what the next crisis could be and how we’re going to manage it. 
 
If you aren’t prepared for the next crisis, things will spiral out of control. 
  
Whether it’s a global pandemic or racial and social unrest, there’s going to be another crisis that will be problematic. 

Here are three things to focus on to prepare you for the next crisis.