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.

Would you stay and hope the universe will get you to higher occupancy or do something radical because you are in a desperate situation?  

Workers pick places to work largely on pay rates. Having a single toxic person makes it more expensive to hire future workers.

I believe there is a tremendous opportunity to help team members working in your communities have better conversations.

Here’s the point. What you do in creating a senior living community is harder than baseball. And it’s no game!

Trust and communication enable hard conversations to take place and therefore increase the ability for growth.

Getting rid of the age barrier can help bring down the age stigma, rejuvenate residency, and end the implicit ageism of age segregation.

If you were ever feeling cynical about the senior living industry you will not be after reading these responses.

No matter the role or title in your organization there exists the opportunity to lead and continue to grow in influencing others.

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.

NIC has designed their spring conference with the specific challenges and opportunities that are on the minds of senior living leaders.

The decisions that are now being made will determine whether today’s senior living is tomorrow’s “home for life.”

In this environment, it might seem disrespectful to talk about making senior living fun. Except we know that fun is … well fun.

Joe Biden announced broad sweeping changes for nursing homes that include much bigger sticks and the promise of better carrots.

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.

Mark Rober lays out the 4-step process he uses when creating anything new. Are you skipping to step four most of the time?

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.

The great opportunity is to capture the stories of residents, families, and team members. It starts with you stepping up to be the singer.

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.

These are worthy concepts for all of us. If you were to grade your organization on these 5 concepts what grade would you receive?

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.

Coming into 2022, Omicron has provided us with another hurdle to overcome before we can jump into some new innovations for 2022.

What if this year were the year you decided not to grow at all, but rather the year you decided to get better?

We have, through all this, learned at least five important lessons that will serve us and our residents going into the future.