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David’s Ulrich’s Leadership Pipeline

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

With gratitude to Nicki Roth for posting this updated graphic of David Ulrich‘s Leadership Pipeline. As SixSEED Partners work with our clients, we invite them to re-think succession planning to a shift from preparing a few for select positions, to developing the capacity to think and better lead in complexity. In the graph posted by The Talent Guru, you will notice an evolution from task oriented and defined capacities to more of leading and growing others to create a culture of well-being and excellence. How are you intentionally developing your leaders so that their thinking expands before they are promoted into more complex roles? We’d welcome chatting with you about proven methods that respect your team’s and the organization’s most pressing needs.

Read post here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicki-roth-0b6a86_1-min-summary-of-the-evolution-of-leadership-activity-7086660758188486656-EBKR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

National Academy of Medicine’s National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being

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

Background

In today’s post, we celebrate the National Academy of Medicine’s National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being. This plan emphasizes a systems approach to well-being that includes roles for clinicians, administrators, and “coalition actors” to reduce unnecessary burdens that stem from laws, regulations, policies and standards placed on health workers.

These links will take you to their website and plan document:

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26744/national-plan-for-health-workforce-well-being
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/26744/highlights.pdf

“The National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being is intended to inspire collective action that focuses on changes needed across the health system and at the organizational level to improve the well-being of the health workforce.” The National Plan’s vision is that patients are cared for by a health workforce that is thriving in an environment that fosters their well-being as they improve population health, enhance the care experience, reduce costs, and advance health equity; therefore, achieving the “quintuple aim.”

If you’d like support in creating a culture of well-being, email us at this link:https://sixseedpartners.com/contact/

The Shift from Burnout to a Focus on Purpose and Well-Being

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“Far from being out of touch, leaders who work to reconnect the health care workforce to a sense of purpose and restore the meaning behind what we do and how we do it are facing some of health care’s biggest challenges head on. Health care leaders have to understand that their choice is not between addressing all the pressures on the system or supporting the workforce. To improve our whole system and get out of this morass we find ourselves in today, leaders have to first support those who devote their lives to health care.”

Today’s post quotes an article from IHI (the Institute for Healthcare Improvement) titled: “Don’t Talk To Me About Joy in Work” by Kedar Mate. This shift from burnout to a focus on purpose and well-being is the topic of a few workshops that SixSEED Partners will be facilitating in healthcare organizations over the next couple of months. As Mate states in his article, this isn’t an either/or situation. We can have compassion for the numerous demands facing healthcare workers and leaders as we also courageously lead our purpose-driven work.

We’d love to hear what resonated for you. Feel free to offer a comment at: https://sixseedpartners.com/contact/

To Create Results, Leaders Must Take Actions

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With deep gratitude to our colleague Vinay Kumar for his work in powerfully training leaders on shifting their IOS: internal operating system to better manage complexity. Vinay and I will be co-facilitating a leadership retreat for healthcare leaders where we will continue our work using the leadership circle profile mat to help them notice reactive thinking and behaviors and shifting those to create cultures focused on well-being and excellence. In this LinkedIn post, he discusses OAR: How we observe, leads to our taking actions which get results. If we want different results, we need to shift how we observe.

We’d love to hear what resonated for you. Feel free to offer a comment at: https://sixseedpartners.com/contact/

10 Ways to Deal with Stress

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This article from the Cleveland Clinic: “Your Definitive Guide to Work Stress and Burnout” highlights ten ways to more effectively deal with what might be creating stress and contributing to burnout in your life. While there will always be factors outside your control, we have more control than we think in minimizing our everyday stressors. The authors cite managing efficiency; dispelling self-doubt (imposter syndrome); and addressing your tendency to overwork, amongst others.

We’d love to hear what resonated for you. Feel free to respond with your one, easy, accessible habit to minimize your daily stress! Feel free to offer a comment at: https://sixseedpartners.com/contact/

National Women Physicians Day

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In honor of National Women Physicians Day, SixSEED Partners wanted to remind our readers on those attributes which are important to retain female physicians, including flexibility, respect and equitable advancement opportunities and pay.

Women physicians were found to be at increased risk of burnout due to their lessened ability to decompress when they returned home after work:

“A gender gap was particularly apparent when physicians were surveyed on their ability to decompress when they returned home from work. Female physicians had lower scores than male physicians on all four areas of decompression, including enjoying personal time without worrying about work (females: 3.39; males: 3.61), freeing their mind from work while away (females: 3.22; males: 3.43), disconnecting from work communications (females: 3.20; males: 3.41), and rarely losing sleep over work issues (females: 3.31; males: 3.51).”

Read more here: https://hbr.org/2022/01/why-so-many-women-physicians-are-quitting

We’d love to hear how this might apply to you. Feel free to offer a comment at: https://sixseedpartners.com/contact/