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A Grounded Approach to Healthy Leadership

July 12, 2021 by Joy Goldman Leave a Comment

Celebrating the work of Bob Rosen and The Healthy Leader®

Joy W. Goldman RN, MS PCC:  CEO SixSEED Partners

Background:  

One of our Six SEEDS includes a focus on Well-Being and our passion has only increased given the numerous traumas healthcare leaders and their teams have been exposed to during the pandemic.  It is our firm belief that healthcare delivery can’t be at its best if those working within it are unhealthy.  Therefore, it seemed perfect that we would affiliate with The Healthy Leader® in facilitating their Grounded and Conscious Healthy Leader Content.  Since we’ve been focusing on building resilience, we wanted to showcase the great work that Bob Rosen, Rick Auman, and the team have been doing and the impact it makes in creating healthy leaders.

 The Grounded Leader Model:  Recently, we commented on a posting on Linked In that referenced a Center for Creative Leadership Article on Eight Steps to Become More Resilient.(provide link).  In our work with The Healthy Leader,® we focus on evidence-based research that links the six dimensions of the Grounded Leader to business performance results.  You’ll note in the above graphic that the six dimensions of the Grounded Leader model include: 

  • Physical Health:  How you live
  • Emotional Health: How you feel
  • Intellectual Health: How you think
  • Social Health: How you interact
  • Vocational Health: How you perform
  • Spiritual Health: How you view the world

As we reflect on resilience, we can easily discern that it is the interplay of all six of these dimensions that prepares us for resilience, adaptation and thriving.  Resilience is a root within the emotional dimension yet it is our assertion that one cannot be resilient without growing the other five dimensions as well.

The model also links the six dimensions to the major disruptors of our current world.  For example, the more we attend to the dimension of physical health and energy management, the better able we are to effectively deal with the unrelenting speed of life.  Technology was a gift during Covid 19 isolation yet we would argue that it was an inadequate substitute without the addition of social health and nourishing communities.

All of these resonated with the participants from a Fortune 500 Technology firm for whom we are delivering this content.  Through small group interactions and accountability partners; the support of an online portal with videos and reflection/ journaling exercises, and integration of their organization’s leadership imperatives, the participants are living and learning new habits to support their resilience and that of their teams.

Application: 

To those who might think this content is “soft,” The Healthy Leader® has partnered in conducting research on the impact of healthy leaders to business results.  Ross and Squires published a 2015 article entitled “Tone at the Top: Leadership as the Foundation of Organizational Health and Wellness” in which they describe the impact of leaders who score high in these six dimensions to job performance.  Below you can see two of the charts included in the article.  Of note is the significance of spiritual health to performance.  When’s the last time you discussed spiritual health with your employees?

Let’s hear from you

If you’d like to chat more about The Grounded and Conscious Leader Program, and about a methodical and systemic approach that supports the individual and systemic change and resilience, we’d love to hear from you. Please message us on our LinkedIn page or send us an email here.

#culture, #systemintegration, #wellbeing

Acknowledgment: The Healthy Leader

Filed Under: Culture, Six Seeds, System Integration, Well-being

8 Steps to Become More Resilient

July 3, 2021 by Petra Platzer Leave a Comment

Appreciating The Center for Creative Leadership and DavidMcLean for sharing these insights

Joy W. Goldman RN, MS PCC:  CEO SixSEED Partners

Background:  

As the world experiences a massive “re-entry” after being in fear and reactivity mode for the past eighteen months, becoming more resilient is on many people’s minds. David McLean, Director of People and Organizational Development at Lambton College recently highlighted on LinkedIn, a Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) article on eight steps you can take to become more resilient.  We share David’s interest in resilience as we promote Well-Being for those who work in healthcare.

Appreciations:

David’s brief and succinct expansion on the wonderful graphic shared by the CCL in 2016 remains relevant for today.  We notice elements of Daniel Pink’s Drive Model®: Purpose; Autonomy and Mastery; Carol Dweck’s: growth mindset® (learner mindset); Simon Sinek’s: “Why®,” and David Emerald’s work around The Empowerment Dynamic®, amongst others.  These eight steps, as identified by the Leading Effectively staff in November of last year summarize very well actions in our control to become more resilient with whatever comes our way.

The embedded article expands on these eight steps to include taking care of one’s physical health including getting enough sleep and prioritizing exercise.  They expand on reflection to include a journaling practice.  All great suggestions with proven impact.

Yes, AND…..

I can imagine the sarcastic responses I might hear from those who’ve been working tirelessly to take care of others, allowing little time to spend on themselves.  Is it lack of knowledge that prevents leaders from cultivating these habits or something else?  It reminds me of the way we’ve approached “solving” the burnout issue within healthcare.  Within our work at SixSEED Partners, as we take an ecosystem and system-integration approach to dealing with complexity, we advocate individual AND system responsibilities to create a generative culture and resilient leadership.  Well-Being/ Resilience is not only an individual challenge; it is a cultural one as well.

I most agree with these writers that the mirror has to be turned inward.  We need to abolish blame-filled cultures and ask our individual and collective selves, with courage and compassion:  “how am I / are we contributing to the challenge I /we see before me/ us?”  And we must ask this question when we are rested and healthy.  We cannot see the horizon if we’re still buried beneath the earth.

Let’s hear from you

If you’d like to chat about a methodical and systemic approach that supports the individual and systemic change and resilience, we’d love to hear from you. Please message us on our LinkedIn page or send us an email here.

#culture, #systemintegration, #wellbeing



Acknowledgment: Centre for Creative Leadership


#learningagility #leadership #resiliency

Filed Under: Coaching, Leadership Development, Well-being

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