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Leading effectively: The importance of giving yourself – and your teams – space to breathe and think
Are you leading through continuous change? Is the change unpredictable and moving at such a fast pace that it is difficult to keep up and has you wondering what it looks like to lead effectively and with the space to think? Not just for yourself, but also with your...
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Next Generation Succession 2.0: Leveraging Succession to Accelerate Leadership Capacity
On July 25th, Dr. Larry McEvoy and I had the privilege of presenting the above topic to a room filled with leaders, recruiters, and consultants attending the American Hospital Association 2019 Leadership Summit in San Diego. We provided a case study that illustrated...
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Leveraging Polarities to Create Sustainable High Performance: A Physician and Nurse Leadership Academy Day of Learning
In April of 2019, WellSpan Physician and Nursing leaders were brought together for a transformative Day of Learning conducted by SixSeed Partners. For over a year SixSeed Partners worked with system senior leaders to increase the capacities for transformational change...
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Not for Beginners: Development in the Health Care C-Suite
Regardless of the gains we seem to make in health care organizations, executive teams live in a pressure cooker of insufficient performance, on-demand adaptation, and continuous exhaustion. We’ve tried getting bigger, consolidating and merging to gain big leverage. ...
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Creating Systemic Thinkers: Going beyond SBAR
It has long been recognized that nurses and physicians speak in different ways. Particularly in Surgical settings where providers may experience a sense of pressure with clinical demands, tools like SBAR: “Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation” have...
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Case Study: Increasing Leadership Capacity—Disrupting Traditional Succession Planning in a Community-Based Healthcare System
The Board, in collaboration with senior leadership at this Community-Based, Regional Health System invited partnership with Wiederhold & Associates to design a multi-year succession planning process for seven high potential leaders.
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