Category: Leadership
Why Leaders Need to Stop Being So Positive
Believe it or not in a twisted way, if you want a better more positive organization you need to as a leader be less positive. Here is why.
Read MoreWhat If You Had to Hit 95% Occupancy in Order to Keep Your Job?
Would you stay and hope the universe will get you to higher occupancy or do something radical because you are in a desperate situation?
Read MoreThere Is One Person Who Is Poisoning Your Whole Organization
Workers pick places to work largely on pay rates. Having a single toxic person makes it more expensive to hire future workers.
Read MoreMy Team Thinks I Am Crazy for Doing This!
I believe there is a tremendous opportunity to help team members working in your communities have better conversations.
Read MoreOne of the Hardest Things to Do in Business Is to Lead a Senior Community
Here’s the point. What you do in creating a senior living community is harder than baseball. And it’s no game!
Read MoreTrust and Communication: The Bedrock of Healthy Relationships
Trust and communication enable hard conversations to take place and therefore increase the ability for growth.
Read MoreA Powerful Story
Getting rid of the age barrier can help bring down the age stigma, rejuvenate residency, and end the implicit ageism of age segregation.
Read MoreWhen Have You Helped a Coworker?
If you were ever feeling cynical about the senior living industry you will not be after reading these responses.
Read MoreMake More of Yourself = Make More of Your Team
No matter the role or title in your organization there exists the opportunity to lead and continue to grow in influencing others.
Read MoreThe Most Unsexy Senior Living Model There Is—Which Makes It Sexy Like Crazy
The needs in this area are great, though not as sexy. But I find myself drawn to the idea that it is a noble enterprise.
Read MoreThis Conference Is Going To Be Different
NIC has designed their spring conference with the specific challenges and opportunities that are on the minds of senior living leaders.
Read MoreIs Senior Living Home?
The decisions that are now being made will determine whether today’s senior living is tomorrow’s “home for life.”
Read MoreMaking Work Fun Again …
In this environment, it might seem disrespectful to talk about making senior living fun. Except we know that fun is … well fun.
Read MoreIs One More Year Too Much to Ask?
There is trouble ahead for physical and occupational therapy assistants (PTAs and OTAs) and for everyone who needs them.
Read MoreJoe Biden’s Plan to Fix The Nursing Home Problem
Joe Biden announced broad sweeping changes for nursing homes that include much bigger sticks and the promise of better carrots.
Read MoreAre You Too Tired to Care?
Help is out there. But people are too tired to wade through the details, much less be energized to pull up the bootstraps and go at it.
Read MoreLeadership Lessons From a Rock-Throwing Robot
Mark Rober lays out the 4-step process he uses when creating anything new. Are you skipping to step four most of the time?
Read MoreHey C-suite, You Just Don’t Get It
They mean well, but they don’t get it. They say, “It’s gonna be okay.” They don’t get it, and they have no idea how to help.
Read MoreUnsung Heroes Without a Singer
The great opportunity is to capture the stories of residents, families, and team members. It starts with you stepping up to be the singer.
Read MoreDo You Destroy or Do You Create?
It’s so easy to fall into this trap. But it makes us less effective as leaders, less effective as family members, and it makes us less human.
Read More5 Leadership Concepts from Seth Godin
These are worthy concepts for all of us. If you were to grade your organization on these 5 concepts what grade would you receive?
Read MoreAre You Suffering From Decision Paralysis?
Let’s not overdo the decision processes. If we make a choice and get it wrong, we can shift direction and learn from our mistakes.
Read MoreFacing Down Omicron – The Next Few Weeks
Coming into 2022, Omicron has provided us with another hurdle to overcome before we can jump into some new innovations for 2022.
Read MoreDo More or Do Better?
What if this year were the year you decided not to grow at all, but rather the year you decided to get better?
Read MoreCOVID Silver Linings [5 Lessons Learned]
We have, through all this, learned at least five important lessons that will serve us and our residents going into the future.
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