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Alison Martin is the Founder and CEO of Engage Mentoring, a mentoring movement seeking to elevate people in the workplace. She is also the author of Learning to Lead Through Mentoring: 8 Mentoring Lessons to Help You Pursue Meaningful Mentoring Relationships. Alison’s passion for mentorship comes from reflecting on the opportunities she had early in her career. She credits her success to the great mentors who helped her realize her leadership potential. Because of the positive effect mentorship has had on both her professional and personal life, she now strives to equip others with the opportunity for meaningful mentor relationships. In this throwback episode, listen as Alison and Nikki discuss how mentorship can increase employee engagement. Not only does it help transfer knowledge to help mold strong leaders, but Alison believes it gives employees a stronger sense of purpose knowing there’s someone else invested in their development.

Vicki Hess is an engagement expert, author, thought-leader, and speaker, and she is passionate about inspiring healthcare leaders to take action and transform engagement.  In this throwback episode, listen in as she and Nikki reveal the tools you need to create the environment you and your employees want to work in. Learn more about Vicki at vickihess.com.

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Rachel Druckenmiller is the founder of UNMUTED, where she works with leaders and their teams to build resilience and better relationships. When this throwback episode was first released Rachel was the Director of Wellbeing at SIG, where she acted as a catalyst in releasing possibilities for her people. Many people think a healthy company means promoting healthy food, standing desks, and yoga programs, but these important initiatives only scratch the surface. For Rachel, a true healthy culture is one with underlying values that give employees the opportunity to grow, learn, and contribute to something bigger than themselves.

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Jill Kersh is the Owner of Thrive Unlimited and a certified life and career coach. She has a passion for equipping others to thrive through their own authentic connection to gratitude. In this episode you will hear Jill discuss  focusing on what you have, not what’s missing, and how you can incorporate different routines in your day to help your gratitude practices.

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Michael Crafton is the President and CEO of Nelbud Services Group. Founded in 2005, the company’s origins were humble to say the least, with only Michael’s pickup truck and $800 in hand. He has since grown the business into the largest self-performing kitchen exhaust hood cleaning company in the country and been recognized four times as an award-winning top workplace in Indiana.  Michael strives to create a best-in-class employee experience and accomplishes this by creating sustainable careers that empower, attract, and promote an engaging culture. In this throwback episode, you’ll hear Michael emphasize how the happiness and satisfaction of employees directly impacts customer experience. Michael also shares ways to integrate the mindsets and cultures of different regions, based on his experiences supervising numerous mergers. Truth You Can Act On:   1. Happy Employees Create Happy Customers    Supporting Quote:  Micheal Crafton: “I may or may not have been accused of being survey happy, because I am.I absolu

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Brian Helleland, CEO, and Mary Ann Perez, Director of Care Experience work at St. Jude Medical Center in Southern California. While they have different roles in the company, both are passionate about nurturing pride for their organization. In this episode Brian and Mary Ann speak to the importance of training and how it is the job of a leader to make culture tangible. Truth You Can Act On 1. Own Culture Initiatives Supporting Quote Brian Helleland: “We're not shy about talking about hashtag St. Jude pride or the St. Jude pride campaign. We're transparent about it. We're not trying to manipulate or trick anybody that we're creating this culture to make people happy to be here. We want our staff to be part of generating the pride and that we're all building this pride together. Not that we're trying to build it as leaders.” 2. Share Positive Stories Supporting Quote Mary Ann Perez: “I saw a lot of stories from our own caregivers with photos, maybe of a poster that a community member had left out in one of o

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Bill Eckstrom is the Founder of EcSell Institute, a global research based organization that works with leaders to help them better understand, measure, and elevate coaching's impact on performance. Bill’s primary passion is growth, especially the growth that occurs in individuals and teams as a result of coaching.  In this episode you’ll hear Bill discuss the different qualities and quantities of successful leading, and the importance of measuring the impact you want to have. Truth You Can Act On   1. Humanize One-on-One Meetings   Supporting Quote Bill Eckstrom: “The biggest complaint people have about having one-on-one meetings with their boss is, ‘All my boss wants to talk about are the numbers. That's my one-on-one meetings. It's really a review of my pipeline. Nothing that my boss couldn't get, my manager coach couldn’t get from the CRM. They just want to talk about results.’ Here's what's interesting. The most critical component when we think of quality of coaching, the baseline, the foundation for gro

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Dr. Maureen Fagan is the Chief Nursing Executive at University of Miami Health System in Miami, FL. She is passionate about leading resilience and helping people recharge.  In this episode, Maureen recounts her leadership journey this year on the frontlines of healthcare and shares best practices to help employees find their “reserves”.  Truth You Can Act On    1. Listen to Hear and Empathize    Supporting Quotes Maureen Fagan: “You see an executive that's on the floor in what we would call the trenches. That's our slang for being on the unit and seeing the patients and meeting the patients and hearing their stories, and I can see that when I do that nursing leadership in the end, the nurses on the frontline that are their staff step back and listen to me. They listened to me talking to the patient. And when I'm talking with the patient, I'm cognizant of the fact that I'm modeling the behavior, that I would like them to have the comportment of what I would like them to be providing.” Maureen Fagan: “You're st

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Bill Auxier is the President and CEO of Dynamic Leadership Academy where he specializes in executive coaching, specifically in the healthcare industry.  In this episode, Bill breaks down the method called team stakeholder-centered executive coaching, and discusses the power of personal assessments and feedback. To learn more about Bill and team stakeholder-centered executive coaching, you can tune into his podcast Rural Health Leadership Radio at rhlradio.com or visit his website at billauxier.com  Truth You Can Act On    1. Focus on One Thing to Make a Difference   Supporting Quote Bill Auxier: “For the executive team, they felt like they needed to become better communicators, but one of their big picture objectives was improving employee engagement. So working with them, identifying a goal, a team goal around communication, and then working on that with each of the senior leadership team members, as well as a group. Each person created their own individual goal that contributed to the team goal, and through

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Mark Miller is the VP of High-Performance Leadership at Chick-fil-A and the best-selling author of nine books, including his most recent, Win Every Day. For over twenty years, Mark and his team at Chick-fil-A have researched what drives organizational performance and applied it to their everyday operations. In this episode, Mark shares practices and tools to help leaders execute and cultivate a healthy workplace. Truth You Can Act On    1. Commit to Pursuing Mastery   Supporting Quote Mark Miller: “We actually think mastery, even though it's maybe not an everyday word, that it is the right word. I want to be really, really clear. The goal here is to do the right thing the right way every time, but it's not the expectation. And we think there's a huge difference. If an expectation is unrealistic or impossible, it will de-motivate people, but a goal, particularly a challenging goal, can inspire people.”   2. Own the Numbers   Supporting Quotes  Mark Miller: “We cannot find a high performance organization on the