Higher Ground - Healthcare Leadership
Healthcare Leadership: Higher Ground is an essential guide for healthcare leaders, providing practical tools, strategies, and action steps to unlock your full potential, whether you are an emerging or experienced leader. Join in as we venture together through the trials, tribulations, and art of becoming a great leader, something that is always in the making if we stay curious. Higher Ground aims to share with you the things I most wish I had known in my first two years of leadership and all the foundational elements I like to stay grounded in as an experienced leader.
Episodes
38 episodes
Higher Ground 777 - AI Advancements for Adding Value to the Pillars of Excellence
Listen in today on Higher Ground's 777: 7 tips on the utilization and implementation of AI tools in radiology departments (as an example) for adding value under the pillars of excellence: People, Quality, Safety, Finance, & Growth.
Higher Ground: Episode 37: Josh Block- "Technician to Leader: Oops, I Became a Leader"
Listen in today, and welcome back to the show, special guest, Josh Block, President of Block Imaging, author of People Matter@Work, and founder of Cube Mobile Imaging. No matter how big they've grown, the company hasn't drifted from its roots--...
Higher Ground - Episode 36: 777 SBEAR
Welcome to Higher Ground's 777: 7 tips, in 7 minutes or less, with these seven letters that spell success. On today's episode, we'll be discussing SBEAR - a communication tool that takes SBAR (situation-background-assessment-recommendation) and...
Higher Ground - Episode 35: Josh Block - People Matter@Work
Listen in today with special guest Josh Block. As President of Block Imaging, a global medical imaging company, and founder of Cube Mobile Imaging, Josh leads with a simple but radical conviction: when people matter at work, everything changes-...
Higher Ground - Episode 34: Lean Strategies with Master Trainer Valdez Bravo
Join in today with a discussion on lean strategies, processes, and implementations for success with Valdez Bravo. A lifelong public servant with over 25 years in the healthcare industry, Valdez serves as Deputy Director of Operations at the Mul...
Higher Ground - Episode 33: Mentorship
Listen in today on skills, strategies, insights, and action steps on becoming a great mentor. Mentorship should be intentional, purposeful, consistent, and psychologically safe to foster growth and understanding in those we are guiding. This co...
Higher Ground - Episode 32: Personal Branding with Special Guest Miranda Kelton
Join today with special guest Miranda Kelton to learn strategies, skills, and insights for building your personal brand for individuals and businesses. Miranda Kelton is a Headshot & Branding Photographer based in Bend, Oregon. ...
Higher Ground - Episode 31: Strategies for Building Teams Through Change and Disruption
Join us today as we discuss building resilient, strong, and robust teams through times of intense change and disruption.
Higher Ground - Episode 30: Strategies for Building Higher Reliable Organizations
Join in today to learn strategies, initiatives, and tools for building high reliable departments and organizations, specifically designed for new and emerging leaders.
Higher Ground - Episode 29: Servant Leadership with Special Guest Eddy Maillot
Join us today with special guest Eddy Maillot as he shares practical skills, strategies, and insights into what it truly means to be a servant leader. Eddy has built a distinguished career in healthcare leadership across the American West, the ...
Higher Ground - Episode 28 - Strategies for Recruitment, Retention, and Re-recruiting Employees
Join us today for a discussion on effective strategies for recruitment, retention, and re-recruiting employees, grounded in culture, mission, vision, values, rounding, coaching, and team building.
Higher Ground - Episode 26: Crucial Accountability Conversations
Join in today to learn how to have effective, crucial accountability conversations by utilizing key tools and strategies to create safety and respect, lead with facts, invite perspective, connect behavior to impact and purpose, co-create agreed...
Higher Ground - Episode 25 - Effective Strategies for Crucial Conversations
Join in today to learn about effective strategies for having crucial conversations. As leaders, what we allow - we promote. Don't fall into this trap and unintentionally create a negative culture. Lean into hard conversations with specific tool...
Higher Ground - Episode 24 - Standard Work: Improving safety, quality, and efficiency
Join us today on Higher Ground for a discussion on standard work and how it helps improve safety, quality, and efficiency. Standard work helps us, as leaders, focus our work and purpose to achieve the best outcomes by providing tangible, action...
Higher Ground - Episode 23 - Identity in Leadership with special guest Annalise Koltai
Join in with Annalise Koltai, Executive Coach, as we explore the role of identity in leadership effectiveness, especially in the first few years of stepping into leadership. Annalise is known for helping leaders move beyond technical brilliance...
Higher Ground - Episode 22: Strategies for New and Emerging Leaders to Onboard New Caregivers
Join us today on Higher Ground as we discuss the importance and strategy for onboarding new employees by connecting them to mission, vision, and values, departmental expectations, safety, and quality, and continuous growth.
Higher Ground - Episode 21: 25 Key Focus Areas for New and Emerging Leaders
Join us today for a discussion on 25 key areas for new and emerging leaders to focus on for sustainable success, starting with the People Pillar.
Higher Ground - Episode 20 - Generational Differences in the Workplace Session 2
Join us today on Higher Ground as we continue our discussion on generational differences in the workplace. We'll discuss characteristics, cultural influences, and strategies on how to relate, lead, and create new and diverse work cultures with ...
Higher Ground - Episode 27: Strategies for Building Higher Reliable Organizations
Join in today to learn about strategies, initiatives, and tools for building higher reliable departments and organizations. Specifically designed for new and emerging leaders.
Higher Ground - Episode 19 - Generational Differences in the Workplace Session 1
Join us today on Higher Ground as we discuss generational differences in the workplace. We'll discuss characteristics, cultural influences, and strategies on how to relate, lead, and create new and diverse work cultures with your multigeneratio...
Higher Ground - Episode 18 - Reflections
On today's episode of Higher Ground, we'll discuss my early leadership focus on accomplishments juxtaposed with what I value the most today: helping others find their path. Join me as we journey together through the trials, tribulations, and ar...
Higher Ground - Healthcare Leadership - Episode 17: Nurse Erin - Making a Difference
Join in today to learn how Nurse Erin made such a positive impact on our lives and the lessons on how the little things can make the biggest differences.
Higher Ground - Healthcare Leadership - Episode 16: Never Judge a Tortoise by Its Start & Bob - Making a Difference
Join us today for two inspiring stories and lessons learned: The first, Never Judge a Tortoise by Its Start, followed by Bob - Making a Difference.