Master Your Mindset to Build Resilient Clinical Teams
Burnout is described as long-term, unresolvable job-related stress that leads to exhaustion, cynicism, feelings of detachment from one’s job responsibilities, and lack of a sense of personal accomplishment. Nowhere has this perilous condition been more prominent than in our healthcare industry. Burnout by physicians, nurses, and other front-line healthcare providers was already at crisis levels […]
3 Surprising Insights About Negative Emotions
Josh Davis, in his book Two Awesome Hours discusses how paying attention to our emotions can help us be more productive and effective. He points out that many of the tasks we perform have an emotional component or elicit emotions—mild or strong, positive or negative. Since emotions greatly affect how we perform, understanding them a […]
Make Yourself Uncomfortable
“What is one thing you could do, at practice today, that will make you uncomfortable to help us get better?” That is the question that my dad asked each one of his players at the beginning of a volleyball practice. Each girl pondered for a few moments, then answered this somewhat difficult question. For some of […]
The Mindset of Engagement
Last night I went to the mall for the first time in several months and was reminded why I stay away from that place. My husband and I were on the hunt for some professional clothing items for an upcoming press event. Each retail store we stepped into provided similar experiences. Retail Store #1: The first […]
What Does Your Life Speak?
What is my life going to speak? When I think about this question I begin to wonder what my life/ lifestyle communicates to people. What do I talk about on a consistent basis? When I communicate with people what do they walk away with? Is my life’s mission communicated through the way that I live? […]
Does Your Work Bring Meaning to Your Life? Or is it Just a Job?
What happens when we get so focused on everything and lose sight of everyone. We rank people by their numbers, Reward one kind of behavior, Mistake authority for leadership, We get lost in the who, what, when, how. And forget the why. But when people align what they do with why they do it, they […]
4 Keys to Train Your Brain For Well-Being
Well-being—that subjective quality of how each of us experiences our life, has long been of interest to philosophers. With advances in neuroscience over the past decade or two, it has also become a hot topic for scientists. And the good news from research findings: Well-being is a skill that can be cultivated! At the outset, […]
Dealing with Negative Realities
Negative realities. It’s a part of life. Whether we realize it or not. Last week I was helping my dad clean out his office and we stumbled upon some old media guides from my days as a collegiate athlete. To put it simply my four years of college volleyball were less than stellar. My career […]
Show Up On Purpose
In the game of volleyball the serve is the only thing that you can control. The athlete chooses how they will serve the ball…..short, deep, top spin, float……and they get to choose the zone that they serve the ball to. This is also true of our leadership. We get to choose how we serve, where […]
Practice Makes Perfect
I had the unique opportunity to play and coach college volleyball. As an athlete I would spend hours upon hours practicing for game day. In fact, the other day I attempted to count the number of hours I spent practicing. I started playing volleyball in sixth grade and finished playing when I was 26 years […]
The Science of Well-Being
Well-being is the subjective quality of how each of us experiences our life. This idea has long been of interest to philosophers. With advances in neuroscience it has also become a hot topic for scientists. And the good news from research findings: Well-being is a skill that can be cultivated! At the outset, let’s go a […]