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Archives for February 2022

“The Last Time” Meditation

February 23, 2022 by Joy Goldman Leave a Comment

During a recent snowstorm in Baltimore, I recalled a meditation from the app, Waking Up, by Sam Harris. The meditation is called: “The Last Time” and it is narrated by William B. Irvine.

In it, he asks us to imagine that whatever we are doing, we are doing it for the last time. As I prepared to go out shoveling, I paused and looked at the red cardinals, the Bluejays, the nuthatches and chickadees frolicking at my bird-feeders and felt a sense of calm and gratitude pervade my being.

How might a perspective of “the last time” impact you today?

Listen to the meditation at https://bit.ly/3IdYGUb.

Filed Under: Six Seeds, Well-being

Celebrating American Heart Month

February 15, 2022 by Joy Goldman Leave a Comment

During American Heart Month, we want to highlight the great work at the HeartMath Institute where the team offers evidence-based and quick methods for improving heart-brain coherence. Heart-focused breathing has been found to short circuit our sympathetic nervous system response to threat and results in clearer thinking; feelings of peace and ease; and improved results.

According to the CDC, “February is American Heart Month, a time when all people can focus on their cardiovascular health. The Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention is shining a light on hypertension (high blood pressure), a leading risk factor for heart disease and stroke.”

For more information about American Heart Month and resources to help, visit the CDC’s ‘American Heart Month Toolkits 2022‘ website.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

A Special Valentine’s Day Message

February 14, 2022 by Petra Platzer Leave a Comment

There are many definitions and manifestations of love. As we think about the last two years, the dedication and commitment that healthcare workers and leaders have shown to their patients, teams, and each other is the highest example of love in action. It takes love to show up fully, in life’s messiness; to not turn away but to stay in the mess with the intent to make things better. To our clients who show up every day, with courage and vulnerability, and despite numerous competing priorities, invest in their own and their team’s development, we say “Brava! and We love you!”

“The important thing is not to think much, but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.”
– ST. TERESA OF ÁVILA

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Case Study: Developing Dyad Trust and Partnership

February 4, 2022 by Joy Goldman Leave a Comment

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

Background

OneSixSEED Partners (SSP) was contacted by a Chief Clinical Officer for a large faith-based health system concerning our providing coaching services to two cardiac surgeons who needed to partner for overall program success and were currently in conflict.  The behaviors demonstrated were interfering with the engagement of other team members and posed a risk of departure for one of the surgeons who happened to be a high-volume, high revenue producer.

The Strategy:

SSP met with the local hospital Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) to determine measures of success and also to assess dynamics within the larger health system.  As may be common with less urban areas, the CCO’s marital partner was a peer to one of the referred physicians which impacted the CCO’s proclivity in setting firm boundaries. SSP modeled being compassionate AND direct in establishing performance expectations and outcomes.  While there was some interest in bringing the two physicians together immediately, we agreed that our approach would combine the organization establishing firm expectations and providing coaching support in developing these physician leaders.

The Solution: 

Choosing the right coach for the clients was essential in establishing trust in order to provide both challenge and support.  We decided to use the @CoreStrengths Strength Deployment Inventory to help each physician deepen their emotional intelligence as they understood their motivators and values within the context of six other motivational value styles and conflict styles.  In debriefing the physicians individually, each client was true to their style, often demonstrating their strengths and overdone strengths within the debrief conversation.

As you will note from the attached SDI triangle, the two surgeons had very different styles which contributed greatly to their sense of conflict.  One physician valued inclusion and the other physician valued autonomy and competition. As with all interdependent tensions/ polarities, what was essential was helping each physician understand their unique gifts/ strengths and how to leverage those, while also understanding their overdone strengths and the impact on their teams.  Each physician’s development plan included strengthening the opposite pole/ style:  to better leverage competition and collaboration.

The Impact: 

One of the strengths of the Core Strengths platform is that it has an app that allows a user to review their results and also compare their style to that of others and learn “do’s and don’ts” for emailing, messaging, communicating, and meeting with those who are different than them.  They learn how to flex their style to their audience so they can partner better and perceive behaviors less personally.  In being able to do so, not only is the partnership strengthened but there is less wear and tear on the physicians so their energy can go where it is most needed which is program development and patient care.  I’m noticing the desire to want to tie a pretty bow and say this story had a happy ending, and I’m sure it will.  The work continues yet it might be easy to guess that the surgeon with a high-performance motivation (red) is considering moving on to what’s next.  As leaders, our roles include establishing cultures where all can thrive.  There are times when that might mean people leave our organizations.  If we’ve done our job in creating strong development cultures, we increase overall leadership capacity so that regardless of departures, the organization continues to thrive and patient care is sustained.

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The “Blame Someone or Something Else” Experiment

February 3, 2022 by Joy Goldman Leave a Comment

Experiment: Listen to yourself and those around you and every time you hear yourself or someone else blame someone or something else, make a tik mark on a piece of paper or in your cell phone notes. At the end of the day, count the tik marks. What do you notice? We as humans seem to love to blame others for pretty much everything, including our own feelings! “You made me feel this way!”

In coaching a client recently, we discussed the sad reality (not really…. sad, just meaning we have work to do..) that we own how we feel. It is as Eleanor Roosevelt said: “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” A leader’s work includes having the courage to reflect on their own “triggers” or reactive behaviors and examine the root cause. In the moment, this might look like breathing and visualizing a relaxing, grounded image, giving yourself a hug of compassion, and then refocusing on your desired outcome. For our client, her trigger was her life experience that “people will let me down and I can only count on myself.” Her recognizing this allowed her to have compassion for herself, while setting boundaries with an employee. She still had work to do but she didn’t have to carry anger and resentment into the rest of her day and her home life. We’d love to hear your thoughts for yourself and others around this challenge.

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