The Gut+Science Healthcare Series, sponsored by Wambi, brings the best influencers and leaders in healthcare to share best practices, stories, and lessons to build stronger people-first healthcare institutions.

Dr. Dan Weberg is a disruptor innovator who gets fired up about breaking the cycle of toxic leadership in the healthcare industry. As a nurse leader, an expert in human-centered patient design, and the author of the first book of its kind, “Evidence-based Innovation Leadership for Health Professionals,” today’s topic is one he knows well.

1. Leadership behaviors are as impactful to patient outcomes as medical errors
   Supporting Quote:
   Dr. Dan Weberg: [6:38] “Patient mortality increased and patient morbidity increased and, and so did errors. And that was directly tied back to this idea of a transactional toxic leader. One that, you know, holds a carrot out for good behavior in the stick when there’s bad behavior. And they were showing that patients were dying more on floors that were led by toxic leaders.”
2. Toxic leadership can be intentional or unintentional, but either way needs to stop.
   Supporting Quotes:
   Dr. Dan Weberg: [8:25] “The unintentional side is a symptom of the fact that we don’t train and treat leadership as a, as a practice like we do nursing medicine, you know, other professions, right? So, you know, there’s very intentional training to become a clinician, but there’s very little intentional training to become a leader.”
   Dr. Dan Weberg: [10:35] “Toxic leadership is really where you got to kind of get rid of people because that’s where it’s, it’s this kind of focus on power and control.”
3. Teams experiencing toxic leadership have a 78% burnout rate and report decreased commitment to their organizations.
   Supporting Quote:
   Dr. Dan Weberg [12:41] “[Toxic Leadership] It 100% leads to burnout. We can’t help patients be healthy if we don’t have a healthy culture in which to deliver that care.”

Evidence-based Innovation Leadership for Health Professionals by Dan Weberg and Sandra Davidson – Buy Here.

In collaboration with Wambi, the Gut + Science Podcast Healthcare Series hosted by Nikki Lewellen, Director of Partnerships at Wambi, highlights accomplished, people-first healthcare CEOs (and executives) that share their powerful mindsets, experiences and tools that have helped them succeed. The show encompasses all areas of human capital at work and the successful best practices that breed healthy, engaged organizations.

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Jill Kersh is a certified life and career coach, and she is passionate about helping people live and lead with gratitude.

Listen in as she and Nikki reveal the ways you can practice gratitude for a more joyful life.

And if you’d like to learn more about coaching sessions with Jill, send her an email at jill@thrive-unlimited.com

1. Reminder: Focus on what you have, not what’s missing.
   • [00:01:39] When you have a leader, that’s grounded in gratitude. They’re focusing on what they have instead of what is missing. They make each employee feel seen and heard and appreciated, which leads to increased morale and decreased turnover. [00:01:53] 
   • [00:13:59] When they’re in those negative thoughts, The leader is focusing on what’s missing. Oftentimes they’re using comparison. Avoid comparison; comparison kills gratitude quicker than anything else. [00:14:11]
     
2. Gratitude should not be an after-thought of as “nice to have”, or “I’ll try to get there this week.” It should be an intentional effort in a core practice and leadership.
   • [00:05:26] It’s a matter of choice. So the organization and a leader has to start from, you know, top down showing gratitude, and then it, honestly, it becomes contagious and everyone under them starts expressing heartfelt gratitude and that team comes together and it really has an incredible impact. [00:05:46]
     
3. Gratitude-focused leaders see the gifts in situations and in people all the time. 
   • [00:07:35] These leaders have the ability to increase their success and  the success of those around them, they can see a gift in every negative situation. With their perspective of gratitude turned on and zoned in this often leads employees to flourish in the worst of times. [00:07:53]
   • [00:08:05] A leader that leads with gratitude instead of thinking, “Whoa is me” in that situation, –which the team follows their feeling, by the way– they have that ability to go, “Gosh, what is the gift in this experience? How can we come out stronger and better than we ever have?” And when they start doing that, they start a conversation with their team that leads to brainstorming and creativity so that the company comes out stronger and better than if the mishap hadn’t happened. They choose to learn from every experience. [00:08:38]
4. Start each day and each conversation with intention.
   • [00:14:36] when we start coming from those places where we’re asking things like that, and we’re saying prayers, and we’re coming from appreciation  to start our days with intention, we instantly get to a better place. [00:14:48]
   • [00:15:46] And as soon as you start thinking about what you’re learning from the experience, you instantly start moving into a place of gratitude, [00:15:53]
5. Adopt daily rituals or systems for your own gratitude practice.
   • [00:09:02] …people that have these gratitude practices daily, so those core leaders have a hundred percent of people feeling more joy around them. 84% felt reduced stress and depression, 80% experience more energy, and they were able to create optimism. [00:09:19]
   •  [00:09:40] Gratitude instantly connects you to everything else. So when they’re leading from gratitude, they’re more connected to their employees, their friends, their families, they’re very connected to their missions and their life purpose. [00:09:53]

In collaboration with Wambi, the Gut + Science Podcast Healthcare Series hosted by Nikki Lewellen, Director of Partnerships at Wambi, highlights accomplished, people-first healthcare CEOs (and executives) that share their powerful mindsets, experiences and tools that have helped them succeed. The show encompasses all areas of human capital at work and the successful best practices that breed healthy, engaged organizations.

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Dr. Bonnie Clipper and Ersilia Pompilio, podcast host of Nurses & Hypochondriacs and a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, discuss how during these challenging times, it’s best to be yourself, be as grounded as possible, and be present in the moment while asking yourself are you coming from your ego or from your heart.

To learn more about Ersilia Pompilio, visit:

• The Nurses and Hypochondriacs – Podcast
• Rogue Nurse Media – The Official Website
• Follow @roguenursesmedia on Instagram

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