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Creating interprofessional collaborative practice environments has been a long road!

The challenge has never been how to work collaboratively in emergent situations; we can do that all day long.  The challenge is sustaining it once the emergent situation has passed.  

Successful and sustainable interprofessional collaboration requires leaders to leverage individual competency and team competency in the healthcare workforce.

In this episode we talk about the accountabilities healthcare leaders have and the challenges they face in leveraging interprofessional collaboration to fulfill their accountabilities.

You probably already realize this is an important topic for any healthcare leader who is interested in teamwork.  Go ahead and listen now! 

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In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

To say vulnerable populations have been impacted significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic is an understatement.  Yet, at the same time, communities and businesses are partnering to develop innovative solutions to address the disparities that plague this population.

“The pandemic is teaching us how interdependent we are on each other, and how creative we can be to solve things locally.” says Lauran.

After 2020, when it comes to managing the margin and serving the mission, everything and nothing is the same, and that’s why we thought it would be appropriate to revisit this interview with Lauran Hardin.  During the interview we discuss the over-arching polarity of Margin and Mission.  

Everyone is impacted by this polarity.  

Both Margin and Mission must be present for the system to be sustainable and provide the healthcare we need.

In this interview with Lauran, we look at this polarity within the context of complex care and social needs.

Lauran is a leader at the National Center for Complex Care and Social Needs. The center is the home for complex care and is transforming care for people with complex health and social needs.  

Lauran is guiding and coaching leaders every day out in the field to manage this polarity.  Her stories and insights are enlightening and inspiring.

Lauran shares with listeners why it’s important to understand the importance of the margin and mission polarity when creating programs that impact utilization and revenue.

Powerful change and transformation can occur when you understand and marshal the power of both sides of the margin and mission polarity.  Lauran shares some stories that will leave you with a feeling of hope.

Join us to learn from Lauran as she shares case studies and outcomes from the world of complex care and social needs.

The wisdom Lauran shares is profound!  Listen now!

For full show notes and links, visit:

https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast

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In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

Leaders have been facing one of the most difficult times in their careers.  And it’s not coming to an end any time soon.

Let’s face it.  Leadership is not easy on a normal day let alone during a pandemic!  If you are feeling guilty, exhausted, frustrated, and conflicted then you are an overwhelmed healthcare leader.

Overwhelmed healthcare leaders are looking for new tools and skills to enhance their effectiveness, change the conversations they’re having, and address the unprecedented challenges they face, while supporting their teams.

That’s why we thought it would be appropriate to share this encore episode and interview with our dear friend and colleague Diane Hanson.  

We were blessed to interview Diane Hanson.  Diane has leveraged polarities in her personal and professional life for over 20 years and has a lot of wisdom to share with us.

Today we are talking about Polarity Thinking™ as an essential leadership skill because Thriving, Resilient, Unstoppable (TRU) leaders don’t need quick fixes that fail, they need new ways of thinking and approached that lead them to long-lasting outcomes.

“Once you understand and believe in the logic and predictability of Polarity Thinking™ you are able to move toward sustainable outcomes” says Diane.

Diane shares many stories of how she’s leveraged polarities personally, professionally and as a community leader.  

Diane believes a great place to start practicing your polarity thinking skills is with personal polarities like Work & Home or Self Care & Others Care.  Look at what’s showing up in your life through a polarity lens and then examine your perspectives, preferences, and fears to gather deeper insights.  

Diane notes, “We tend to take care of others before our self. The Self Care & Others Care polarity is a good one for leaders to start with to address burnout.”

Join us as we discuss with Diane how leaders can leverage polarities to strengthen their leadership skills, enhance teamwork, and cultivate psychological safety in the workplace.

The wisdom Diane shares is profound!  Listen now!

For full show notes and links, visit:

https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast

To get our FREE perspective paper, The Three Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance  Click Here now!

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In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

It was so inspiring to interview and dialogue with Dr. Seena Haines about well-being. 

As we begin our interview, Seena shares with us her personal health professions journey, which leads to a brief discussion on how our experiences and stories inform who we are and what we do.  

Seena shares her passion for well-being began with her own personal struggles and the desire to pay it forward.  She informs us that well-being is subjective and influenced by multiple factors including psychosocial resources and support.

During the interview we talk about COVID and the impact it’s having on well-being.  Seena shares the most important well-being dimension is human and social connections and how we have all been missing those connections which is impacting resilience.  

Seena describes the numerous benefits of yoga and what a well coach is and what they focus on and how they help individuals reach their wellness plan.  

Seena also shares a fundamental principle that when it comes to health and well-being patience, persistence, and practice create permanence.  She also believes it is personal.  Focusing on our own personal accomplishments and not comparing ourselves to others is important because our progress is exponential, it just takes time.

From Seena’s perspective work life integration requires attention and intention daily.  She shares she manages this by setting 2-3 priorities each day, pockets of buffer time weekly, schedules personal oasis time in the week for play, advance planning, along with numerous other strategies.

Speaking to leaders and organizations, Seena describes some actions they can take such as job crafting, engaging employees in redefining responsibilities and duties, and having a firm grasp on the relationship between clinician well-being, patient care, and safety.

Seena’s parting message for individual healthcare professionals is “it is not selfish or self- seeking to put your self-care in your top priorities. Just as we are told on a plane that we need to put our own oxygen mask on first before helping others, we are better positioned to sustain and overcome these potholes in life when we carve the time needed to care for ourselves mentally and physically.” We couldn’t agree more!

As you probably already realize this is a delightful and informative interview, so don’t hesitate and listen now!

For full show notes and links, visit:

https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast

To get our FREE perspective paper, The Three Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance  Click Here now!

We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode.  All you must do is email your question to  [email protected] 

If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

One of the consistent messages we are hearing from overwhelmed leaders is they want to do more to care for their team, but they are neglecting themselves in the process.  

A leader’s well-being doesn’t have to be in competition with caring for the team. You can care for you and your team.

Since this is such a prominent theme in our conversations with leaders today, we thought it would be appropriate to share this encore episode and interview with our dear friend and colleague Dr. Jeanne Roode.  

During our interview we discuss the crux tension or polarity of taking care of self and taking care of others.  Jeanne shares her four-year journey on the road to sustainable well-being and what she has learned along the way.

Jeanne recognizes that tensions or polarities like these can significantly impact healthcare leaders, especially if they are unaware of them or do not know how to manage them.  

From Jeanne’s perspective, 100% commitment to your well-being is not something you wake up one day and decide, it is an evolution.  She describes it as, “a number of moments in your life in which you learn and gain wisdom, that come together to one day be enough to push through the barriers.”

Jeanne’s doctoral work focused on the health and well-being of nurses and nurse managers.  She studied the self-care practices of nurses and found their lowest scoring areas were nutrition and exercise.  In her study, nurse managers had the lowest scores in stress management as well as attending to their own stress and learning more about it.  Jeanne has learned what nurses don’t understand, and that is if they don’t attend to their own self-care, and focus on others instead, they are putting everything at risk including attending to others.

Jeanne shares some of the ways she’s found to care for her team while caring for herself is to be a role model, provide appreciation and recognition of their stories, and take interest in their personal and professional success.

Some recommendations for healthcare leaders engaged in day-to-day COVID-19 planning or management is to trust each other to carry the work, encourage self-care, and share stories of what you are doing to take care of yourself.  

How you take care of yourself as a leader cannot be hidden.  Your valuing of self-care shows in everything you do.  You are being watched and whether you are aware of it or not, you are a role model for self-care.

The wisdom Jeanne shares is profound!  Listen now!

For full show notes and links, visit:

https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast

To get our FREE perspective paper, The Three Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance  Click Here now!

We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode.  All you must do is email your question to  [email protected] 

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In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

When we did this initial interview with Dr. Paniagua we had no idea that within a few months we would be facing a global pandemic that would not only add to the stress and mental health challenges healthcare clinicians were already facing but would lead to a parallel pandemic.

In this interview Dr. Miguel Paniagua shared his personal and professional story about burnout, clinician well-being, and resilience.   The interview is as pertinent today as it was a little over a year ago.

There are many healthcare clinicians today, like Dr. Paniagua, who have or are currently experiencing burnout and there are many clinicians who are struggling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a result of the trauma they experienced at the front line during the COVID pandemic.

Clinician burnout is a unique and personal journey for anyone who experiences it.

Lives are at stake!  Not just clinician’s lives but patient’s lives.

We now know that poor provider wellness leads to medical errors.

We are fortunate to have Dr. Paniagua to share his personal experience, hitting rock bottom and how it has informed his current work.

Professionally, Dr. Paniagua is leading efforts at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) to understand the stress of high-stake exams and the effect on student well-being, which he shares with us during the interview. Fortunately, during the pandemic, progress has continued at the NBME (see the link below the show notes).

Join us for this enlightening conversation with Dr. Paniagua as we talk about the realities of clinician burnout and the system and individual factors that can support clinician well-being and resilience.

For full show notes and links, visit:

https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast

To get our FREE perspective paper, The Three Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance  Click Here now!

We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode.  All you must do is email your question to  [email protected]

If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

In this episode we talk with Dr. Andrea Pfeifle, about the history and future of interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice (IPCP), her experiences as a leader in today’s environments, and some of the barriers that have inhibited progress.

Andrea shares her interprofessional journey and a little of how a special relationship with a young boy and his family ignited her love affair with interprofessional collaboration.  She also tells how an invitation, from the Dean of Medicine at University of Kentucky, to lead an interprofessional education initiative at the university launched her interprofessional leadership career and changed her life forever. 

In the interview Andrea shares her perspective on how IPE and IPCP have advanced in the last ten years.  Some examples she shares are the transformation of health professions education, the development and dissemination of interprofessional collaborative practice competencies, expansion of IPE across universities and colleges, and the establishment of the National Center of Interprofessional Practice and Education.

When it comes to factors that have helped foster IPE and IPCP over the years Andrea, shares with our listeners she feels there is a sense intuitively that it’s the “right thing to do” and it “feels right”, which makes it easier to engage people as champions.  Many key stakeholders and groups have engaged in the effort in the last ten years and some key publications have also contributed to making it happen as well.  

There have been some barriers along the way, too!  Andrea talks about some of the barriers including the implicit bias that lies beneath the healthcare system and shapes the models of care, decisions, reimbursement, and structure of healthcare. Another significant challenge Andrea mentions is scalability.

We discuss the need for simultaneous action to move IPE and IPCP forward and the importance of having infrastructures, education and practice partnerships, and outcome measurement.

At the close of the interview Andrea shares her hope over the next 10 years is that integrated team practice is the standard and it’s designed with patients, families, and learners.

This interview includes a remarkable synthesis of the efforts and actions taken to advance IPE and IPCP and is full of important information describing the current state.  If you’re interested in IPE and IPCP you will want to stop what you are doing and listen now!

For full show notes and links, visit:

https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast

To get our FREE perspective paper, The Three Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance  Click Here now!

We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode.  All you must do is email your question to  [email protected] 

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In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

We didn’t think when we conducted this interview back in June of 2020 that we would still be facing significant challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.   

This episode is as relevant now as it was when we originally recorded it.   

During this episode we interview our dear friend and colleague Dr. Barry Johnson about two crux polarities/tensions we are facing as a nation during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The two polarities/tensions we discuss during the interview are Health And Economy and Individual Freedom And the Common Good.  These two polarities/tensions impact every person in the United States.    

The interview is based on two Op-Ed pieces included in Barry’s new book, AND Making a difference by leveraging polarity, paradox, or dilemma- Volume One: Foundations.  

This interview can change how you think about these two tensions that we are experiencing daily in our communities and in the country. 

We think it’s safe to say we all want a country with healthy people and a healthy economy and at the same time there is a fear that as the pandemic continues we will end up with more unhealthy people and further insult to a declining economy in our country.   

The truth is these polarities/tensions were present before the COVID-19 pandemic, and we must manage them now and after the pandemic.   

The question is, what can we learn now, during the pandemic, to help us manage them in future? 

That is the purpose of this podcast, to help us learn to see these tensions through a new lens, explore why it is important to manage them, and identify how we can manage them better in the future. 

A few considerations before listening:

If this is your first time listening to the podcast, you may find it helpful to listen to Episode #1 where we explain polarities before listening to this episode.   

The Op-Ed pieces are available below the show notes and if you are in a location where it is possible, we encourage you to download both pieces before you listen to the episode. Barry refers to the Polarity Map® in the Op-Ed pieces during the interview, so it will be helpful to have them in hand. 

There isn’t anyone in the Unites States who can escape the impact of these two polarities. We urge you to listen to this episode now and share it with your family, friends, colleagues, and communities. 

For full show notes and links, visit:

https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast 

To get our FREE perspective paper, TheThree Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance  Click Here now!

We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode.  All you must do is email your question to  [email protected]

If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

In this episode we talk with co-authors, Dr. Mark Goulston and Dr. Diana Hendel, about their book Why Cope When You Can Heal?  How Healthcare Heroes of COVID-19 Can Recover from PTSD. 

In their book, Mark and Diana paint the picture of the “perfect storm for trauma” that is being experienced by healthcare workers today.  

In the interview Diana shares her perspective that healthcare workers are the grittiest, toughest, most resilient people in our society.   But we are living in the downside of our societal “just get over it” culture and aren’t giving equal attention to the processing which is essential for healing.   

We discuss why it’s important to bear witness to this moment in history and to not “rush past the tragedies that have been experienced.”  Diana describes the numerous experiences healthcare workers have had during the pandemic that have contributed to the experience of moral injury and traumatic stress. 

Mark and Diana also share their perspectives on the pending serious mental health and PTSD crisis that is inevitable in the healthcare system.   

At the close of the interview Diana shares some words of wisdom for healthcare leaders regarding what is and will be required by leaders during these traumatic times.  

This is an interview jam packed with priceless information for anyone who is working in healthcare today.  Stop what you are doing and listen now!

To get our FREE perspective paper, TheThree Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance  Click Here now!

We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode.  All you must do is email your question to  [email protected] 

 If you found value in this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

We are thrilled to provide this Encore episode of our interview with our dear friend and mentor  Dr. Barry Johnson.  Barry is the author of AND:  Making a Difference by Leveraging Polarity, Paradox, or Dilemma.  Volume One: Foundations.  

AND is for people interested in making a positive difference in the world or in any part of their life as a citizen, a family member, or an individual within an organization.   

Volume One of AND covers the application of fundamental polarities from different system perspectives and how different polarities show up in the brain.  Barry suggests learning about polarities is easiest when you work from the smallest system up.  So, beginning with polarities that have meaning for you as an individual enables you to see quickly how the same polarity is applicable across other levels of the system.  

During our interview with Barry, we explore how Both/And thinking overcomes resistance to change and polarization and is an essential step in making a difference. We also discuss how misdiagnosing polarities as problems and how leaders pay a price twice when this occurs. 

You probably already realize, if you want to make a difference in the world understanding polarities is essential and this book is a must read!   Go ahead and listen to this thought- provoking interview now! 

For full show notes and links, visit:

https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast

To get our FREE perspective paper, TheThree Biggest Mistakes Healthcare Leaders Make When Trying to Achieve Work Life Balance  Click Here now!

We would love to have you contribute to this podcast by submitting a question that we can feature in a future episode.  All you must do is email your question to  [email protected]  

 If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.