When The People You Love Don’t Support Your Dreams

I know it can be a little disconcerting when the person that you care about the most or the people that you love don’t seem to be invested in your professional career.

They don’t seem to care about the work that you’ve been so passionate about your entire life.

We have our own passions, and our partners and the people that we care about have other passions.

It can feel very lonely and even debilitating.

You can feel unsupported.

This can lead to isolation at home.

You feel like you’re in it by yourself and start to think, “Why do I even need to have them in my life if they don’t care about what I do?”

You’re trying to build a future for them.

You want them interested and invested, but they can’t see the forest before the trees.

This can make you resentful and break up your family in ways that you never thought it could.

How do you address this situation?

What To Do When There’s Too Much On Your Plate

You’ve got way too much work on your plate.

It’s starting to fall off in a way that is not helpful to your brand inside the company.

People are starting to question whether you actually were the right fit for this role because now you’re not getting the stuff done the way that you need to.

When people start wondering if you’re the right fit, they’re going to start looking for other chinks in the armor as a reason to get rid of you.

Here’s my advice to you.

How To Manage Losing A High Performing Colleague

I know how it is to lose a high performing colleague.  Someone that you enjoyed working with.  Someone that is very skilled at their job.   They did a lot of things to make the organization a whole lot better, but now they’ve left.  This can leave a gaping hole of institutional knowledge that makes it hard for you […]

How To Protect Your Org’s Brand In The Community

Your organization has a brand. 
 
I’m not talking about the brand that you market to your patients or your suppliers.  
 
I’m talking about your brand in your community.  
 
What does your community know about you, think about you and view as your reputation? 
 
 You’re probably the largest employer in your community and have more people connected to your brand than you can imagine.  
 
Every time you or someone on your team goes to the dry cleaner, the pharmacy, and change out of their scrubs, they wear their badge. 
 
They’re letting everybody know that they work for your organization.  
 
As a leader, what is your expectation about your team? 
 
You really want people to have a good feeling about you from the inside out.  
 
In order to make sure your brand is thriving, as it relates to your community and the surrounding community, there are a few things that you can do. 

What Leaders Should Do In A New Organization

You may be a new leader in your organization.

It’s a new role for you; a new opportunity for you to have a tremendous impact.

But if you don’t do the right thing, the right way, at the right time — it could be disastrous for you.

There’s nothing worse than seeing a new leader start to flounder.

When you start to flounder, the people who report to you will immediately second guess whether you deserve the job in the first place.

If they start to second guess you, it becomes harder for you to lead them.

As a new leader, you’ve got to thrive.

You cannot afford to have doubt about your position.

Some people think just because you get a title or a new office, all of a sudden everybody is supposed to listen to you.

You’re entitled to credibility because of your title, but only for one day.

And then the next day you have the earn it every single day.

So the question is, how do you earn credibility as a new leader?

What To Do When Your CEO Acts Unethically

There may be some things that don’t make you feel good about where you work right now.

You may have seen things that are questionable in terms of ethics.

You’ve tried to say something about it, but it’s fallen on deaf ears.

Now you’re feeling that you may be complicit in bad behavior.

You’re not sure what to do.

We’ve all been in organizations where leadership has made a decision that we don’t agree with.

They’ve done something that doesn’t seem to be ethical.

Maybe it’s not in the best interest of the patient or the employees.

You’ll have all kinds of problems if you don’t address issues around ethics.

You’ve got to step up and do something about it.

How To Protect Your Personal Brand

The most important thing as a leader in your organization is your personal brand.

What do you stand for?

What are your values?

If someone says your name, what are the first three words that come to their mind?

What do they know you will do above all else?

What do they know you will never do?

Many times, when we get attached to an organization, our personal brand can get lost in the organization’s brand.

It becomes a reflection on us and not the other way around.

Your personal brand is everything.

When you have a bad personal brand, it will reflect long beyond your current position.

So, you must make sure your brand reflects positively.

To protect your personal brand, here are a few things you need to do every day.

How To Fix A Huge Mistake

You’re not perfect.   Even if you think you’re perfect, you’re not perfect.   Every day we make mistakes.   Every day we do something that ends up hurting someone else.   Most times this is unintentional.   Nobody seeks out to go make a mistake.  We want to be perfect.   We strive for perfection.   We work hard to be better […]

How To Build Alignment With Your Executive Team

There may be internal struggle in your organization because you don’t have alignment as an executive team.

If you don’t have alignment amongst your senior leadership team, you’re going to create all kinds of problems for yourself.

It’ll lead to high turnover.

Low morale is going to lead to smaller contribution margins.

It may even make your organization deficient in your ability to deliver services.

Having good alignment on your team is something you’ve got to give attention to.

Here are a few things you need to focus on to ensure good alignment within your senior leadership team.

How To Lower Your Turnover Rate

If an employee doesn’t stay in your organization for more than a year, that’s a problem.

If you have people you hired that quit within two or three years, that is also a problem.

It’s a problem because turnovers are costly.

Any organization that is rated low as a best place to work has a high turnover rate.

You don’t want that to be your organization.

So you’ve got to do a better job of focusing on your turnover rate.

Here is how you can lower your turnover rate.