Employees selecting employees is empowering and inspires ownership. Employees who are trained to interview and hire their co-workers are invested in them, model excellent behavior for them, train them, and most importantly - want them to be successful.

Topics: leadership, healthcare, new leader, hiring, human resources, interview techniques, hiring right, selection

Eyes are on you. People are listening. Your social media posts are being viewed.

What do they say about you? As a leader? As a person?

Topics: leadership, new leader, Mentoring, work-life balance, role model

Lifelong learner. It's a trait of the most successful people. It's certainly a fallacy to believe that we can ever get to a point of knowing it all. 

Topics: healthcare, new leader, leadership development, lifelong learning

“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” Abraham Maslow

Topics: leadership, new leader, leadership development, personal growth, professional growth

“We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how.” -Anonymous

When I think of mentoring, I think of Luke Skywalker from the famous scene in Star Wars when Yoda is strapped to his back, whispering direction and wisdom in his ear for an entire journey.

Topics: leadership, healthcare, new leader, Mentoring

 

Topics: new leader, time management, Empowerment

 “We make sacred pact. I promise teach karate to you, you promise learn. I say, you do, no questions.” -Mr. Miyagi

Topics: relationship building, new leader, Change, Mentoring, miyagi

 

Topics: leadership, new leader, Change, development

Who is the “perfect boss” in our world today? Is it Indra Nooyi? Named one of Forbes Top ten business leaders in the world today, she meets a whole lot of boss requirements when you consider she “does the right thing” in spite of potential financial losses, and she also works very hard to make work fun for her employees. Who wouldn’t want to drink Pepsi all day and interact with a boss that led an all-girl rock band?

Topics: leadership, relationships, new leader, development, early careerists

Topics: leadership, relationships, new leader, development