How To Lead Your Team Through Crisis

There’s an old phrase that says, “During tough times, tough people last well.”  I know in the middle of a crisis, it’s hard to be focused on toughness.   You’re just trying to get through it.   Your team is trying to get through it.   Crises are very hard times for any organization, particularly for teams of […]

How To Keep Your Team From Burning Out

The healthcare industry is going through a radical transformation.

Sometimes, change is hard for people in healthcare.

It creates very difficult times.

Tough times make it difficult for your team.

Especially when there’s a health crisis or a pandemic like COVID-19 that puts everything at a standstill.

But your team still has to come to work every day.

Your team has to put their life on the front line.

Your team needs to be prepared and equipped to do the job.

There’s a lot of death.

We often forget that these challenges have an impact on our team.

Tough times are hard, even on tough people.

Here are a couple things that you can do to help your team manage during these tough times so that they don’t burnout.

Leading Your Team After Layoffs

You don’t want to lose good team members.

You don’t want to lose good people.

But sometimes the environment makes this impossible.

So as a senior leader, you have to lay people off.

This is the reality.

The people who are still in the organization are hurting.

They had lunch with people who are no longer there.

Your team is grieving.

It’s never a good feeling when you downsize.

You’ve got to find a way to help your team bounce back after a layoff.

This is how I would advise you to bounce back.

How To Downsize

During a downsize, your team is going to be asked to do more with less people. What factors do you consider when you’re thinking about which team member to downsize first?

5 Tips For Leading In A Crisis

Have you ever been in a major crisis as a leader?  One that may devastate the employees.   Devastate the patients.   Devastate your bottom line.   We face economic crises in America.   We also face health crises.  We face major crises over and over, but how do we survive these bad circumstances?  When crisis come, how do […]

Your Job May Not Come Back After COVID-19

I don’t want to be coy about this. COVID-19 is changing our economy. It will be different forever. As a part of this change, your job may change too. When I mean change, your job may be different forever. You could permanently work from home. You may go back to a different work environment. And […]