Category: Leadership
5 Questions for Fara Gold
A senior living icon and sales and marketing master. She has successfully managed the launch of a number of vendor companies in the senior living space.
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Could Getting It Right in Senior Living Be This Easy?
What if every time we encountered and difficult frustrating situation we asked this one question: “What would kindness do?”
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Senior Living’s Big Shame
The hard truth is that there are some operators out there who are not very good. They really do care more about profits than people.
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Why the Hell Do Hospitals and Government Entities Get Off Scot Free?
This Should be HUGE Nursing Home News, This should be HUGE Senior Housing news. And yet . . .Hardly a peep from anyone. It has been crickets.
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When CEOs Read About Failures in Their Communities
I find myself, fearful that too often the leaders see so many of these complaints they find ways to live with them, to even excuse them.
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The Myth of High Occupancy and Financial Success
I’m not sure that we are able to quantify and qualify the myriad variables that will equal financial success on a daily basis.
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7 Most Common Mistakes Made by Senior Living Leaders
I suspect that even if you are a great leader you will see something on this list that will make you go “Ouch” or at least go “I need to think about this.”
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How COVID-19 Is Making Senior Living Better – A Story Worth Telling
It is easy to get bogged down in the awfulness of COVID-19 and its impact on senior living. We are also seeing a number of really remarkable stories.
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5 Questions for Kirkland A. Mason
Stones River Manor was Rutherford County’s first Home for the Aged and is still today the county’s only faith-based, nonprofit senior living community.
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There Is No Going Back
We need to evaluate what existing programs look like, examine the goals, and determine their sustainability in the new environment.
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5 Questions for Scott Buchanan
The CEO of the Ohio Masonic Home, an organization that has served Ohio Masons, their families, and the public since 1892.
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How Do You Want Your Story to End?
Right now, each of us as individuals, and leaders of people and organizations, we are writing a story that is comprised of many more smaller stories.
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Treat Your People as They Want to be Treated
There is a shortage of experienced talent in senior living and to be treated poorly from a large senior living provider is plain wrong.
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5 Questions for Christy Van Der Westhuizen
Christy Van Der Westhuizen is the VP of Sales and Marketing at MBK Senior Living and has been a part of the senior living world for 11 years.
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Scared to Death to Talk about Racism, but Feel Compelled
I have always seen myself as being pretty aware and non-prejudiced. These past 10 days have painfully uncovered some things in me I missed . . .
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5 Questions for Sevy Petras, CEO of Priority Life Care
Sevy, her family, and the management team have worked to create a family-centric model that permeates to the building level.
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If Senior Living Operators Had a Downside Plan
While it is impossible to create a downside plan for a once in 100 years pandemic, downside planning would have made dealing with the pandemic much better.
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5 Questions for Radiant COO Jodi Guffee
Listen and allow individuals and teams to come up with their own solutions to problems. Be vulnerable enough to listen without an immediate answer.
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CMS Says More Fines for Nursing Homes — Insane Backward Thinking
If increasing regulations and fines improved the quality of care in this country, we would have the finest nursing homes in the world.
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Three Senior Living Truths That Are False
One of the great dangers we all face is believing things that are not really true. This is my list of the three biggest false truths in senior living.
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5 Questions for Senior Living Revolutionary David Slomovic
He is the author of the senior living leadership book The Unicorn Project and consults with senior living owners and operators.
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What Does the C in C-Suite Really Stand For?
Among some cynical employees, the banter is that C-Suite stands for “complacency”. The current crisis has snapped any complacency out of the C-Suite.
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5 Questions for Colin Milner
A leading authority on health and well-being of the older adult and one of “the most innovative and influential minds” in the world on aging-related topics.
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You Can Lead Your Teams Through Change with Help from the “Drama-Free Guy” – Part 2
I just want to encourage you, your best days are really ahead of you, and with any crisis, I always ask myself, ‘Okay, what does this make possible?’
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The “Drama-Free Guy” Offers Help for Leading Teams Through Change – Part 1
Most people say, “I don’t like change.” But I’ve realized that it’s not that they don’t like change, they don’t like change they’re not in charge of.
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