Gut + Science - Real Talk With Ceos On Culture, Data, And Decision-making

This episode of Gut+Science Healthcare is a throwback to a guest Bernie McGuinness, Chief Executive Officer at Majestic Care. The business specializes in community-based skilled nursing throughout Indiana, including short-term rehabilitation, long-term care, and memory care. With more than 20 years of experience in senior healthcare management, Bernie understands the inherent stresses of the modern-day healthcare professional. You’ll hear Bernie share how he fosters a “culture first, people first” organization and his desire to develop emotional ownership for his care team members. He also breaks down his “Five S’s” strategy; a system that empowers people to take big ideas and turn them into daily strategies for sustainable and prolonged growth. Truth You Can Act On - The 5 S’s   1. Shine   First impressions make incredible impacts. Continued impressions create expectations. What does your physical work environment say about your culture? Set a high priority on fostering a clean and inspiring environment to

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Jennefer Pursifull is the VP of Marketing and Sales at Medxcel, where she believes in the importance of collaboration. At Medxcel, Marketing and HR join forces to increase overall engagement of both clients and employees. She knows when you have employees who are proud of the company, telling their stories is the best way to spread a company’s brand. In this episode, you’ll learn how she builds brand ambassadors by equipping people to tell their stories . Truth You Can Act On   1. Align Marketing and HR   Supporting Quote  Jennefer Pursifull: “We have a research side of our marketing group, and they really do the customer relationship survey. They oversee our service, transactional surveys on customer satisfaction, and then they do this piece of associate engagement research. And in the last year we have developed an associate index that we combined with our relationship and service, transactional service strategy to create a health index for our remote sites. Our associates do their job out in hospitals and

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Brad Tieszen is the Vice President of Operations at Parkview Health where he runs several specialty clinics. As a part of his daily routine, he’s intentional about being visible by ’s intentional about being visible by taking time to complete patient rounds and participate in huddles with his team. He’s fervant about recognizing excellence whenever he sees it, knowing it is key to unlocking engagement.  In this episode, you’ll hear Brad share his passion for being actively engaged and living in the moment.  Connect with Brad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleytieszen/ Truth You Can Act On   1. Operate in the Moment Supporting Quotes:   Brad Tieszen: “I have to be in the moment, and I have to be engaged with the tone of my voice, with the look in my eyes, and the language that I choose to use to inspire our people. And in return, they inspire me.” Brad Tieszen: “All of our bandwidths are different, but that is where the intentionality comes in, that deliberate in the moment, onstage presence that

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Monica Lloyd, a PreSales Manager at Ascentis, has always been an advocate for education and collaborative learning. In the midst of COVID-19, learning is a continued topic, and she is helping other organizations apply the concept virtually. In this episode, Monica explains how much more employees retain when they have a rounded learning experience. You’ll hear how collaborative learning requires ownership, action, and teaching others in order to be truly effective.  Connect with Monica via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicalloyd/ or via email Monica.Lloyd@ascentis.com.  Truth You Can Act On   1. Master your facilitation skills. Supporting Quotes:   Monica Lloyd: “We put together a different training. One of the things we started doing is we do mentorships, and we also do very real world examples where we sit them down and say, ‘Hey, you were hired. You have previous sales experience. Tell me what you have done in this situation.’ And then we have people share. We used to do it in a classroom envir

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Dan Woloszyn has been in executive hospital leadership for 23 years, including nine years in his current role as the CEO of Rehab Hospital of Indiana (RHI). He has a unique management approach, combining servant leadership with understanding the neuropsychology of corporate hospital systems. Not only does he believe in looking at this neuropsychology from a clinical perspective, but through an administrative lens as well. In today’s episode, you will hear how he incorporates these two philosophies into his everyday life, along with tangible examples of how to apply cross-sectional leadership to your own work. Truth You Can Act On   1. Reach out, communicate, and serve others. Supporting Quotes: Dan Woloszyn: “You don't have to be expert in everything, but there is one thing that I really believe one has to be expert in, certainly from a leadership standpoint, is to reach out and know others, and to serve others . You have to have an expertise with that to kind of drive a reduction of silos and an elimination

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Nick Smarrelli, CEO of Gadellnet, is committed to living a full life while encouraging his employees to do the same. He lives out this mentality as the host of his podcast, Zero Excuses. Nick is a strong believer in growth, responsibility, and making an impact, all of which help him towards his ultimate goal of life without excuse. In this episode, you will hear how his values shape his leadership style and why he believes training is crucial to the success of any organization. Truth You Can Act On:    1. What habits do you have that help you live with “zero excuses?” ?    Supporting Quote:  Nick Smarrelli: “There's this kind of obligation, and that's really where zero excuses comes from, this obligation to use those skills to truly be impactful, both to myself and to be the best version of myself, but then also be able to use that to impact lives of others. And so for me that's the driving force.”   2. What training or development programs do you have for your employees that are making an impact?   Supporti

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week. Here we go! Our question for you today: How often are you reiterating the "why" to your employees? Subscribe to get your Monday Fired up. Gut+Science LIVE! Back by popular demand after his first appearance on Gut+Science Healthcare, Dan Weberg is joining us again on our next Gut+Science LIVE session. We started Gut+Science LIVE as a catalyst to build community among our guests and listeners. This is a 30-minute virtual session with one of our popular guests and conversation is influenced by our listeners with questions they submit. In this upcoming session on September 9th, Dan and Nikki Lewallen will be talking about Fighting Toxicity at Work and how each of us can take a stance to break toxic habits. Toxicity should not be tolerated and each of us can play a part in dwindling down the statistics. Join us HERE!

Tria Deibert, VP of Culture at Hackensack Meridian Health, is a warrior for organizational culture. As a culture leader herself, she understands it takes a team, not a person, to build company culture. In today’s episode, you’ll hear Tria talk about the challenge of merging two organizations and the lessons she learned from that experience. Truth You Can Act On Spend time making the vision, mission, and values real and livable. Supporting Quote: Tria Deibert: [6:54] “Your mission, vision, and beliefs, can't just be a beautifully written statement. It needs to be real and livable. Finding the balance of that, what's real and livable as you're bringing organizations together, is really where the magic is. Create core beliefs and reiterate them constantly. Supporting Quote: Tria Deibert: [13:22] “When we did our research, we learned what the team valued, and that informed the development of our core beliefs. And what we heard thematically was teamwork, human experience, quality,  being highly reliable, and inno

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In celebration of Gut+Science reaching 100 episodes, producer Rachel Downey of Share Your Genius plays interviewer to our very special host, Nikki Lewallen. During this special episode you’ll hear Nikki’s takeaways from some of the leaders she’s had conversations with along with the inspiration behind the show. Cheers to the next 100 episodes!

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The countdown to 100 is on at Gut+Science! As we build up to our 100th episode, we’re revisiting our 9 most popular episodes to get a refresher on how these leaders have built people-forward companies. This episode is jam-packed with Truth You Can Act On so grab a notebook and listen in! Today we’re hearing Truth You Can Act On from our conversations with Tom Jackson, Jethro Lloyd, and Mike Baer. Listen in for the full rundown (and you might want your notebooks handy).

Greg Matthews is an award-winning health innovator out to radically disrupt and improve the healthcare industry’s archaic methods for assessing true sources and patterns of influence. As an advisor to dozens of the largest and most successful healthcare companies in the world, he knows how to understand and quantify physicians’ behavior, networks and patterns of influence. On today’s episode, he shares his passion for data-centered innovation and how it affects engagement. Truth You Can Act On 1. Engagement is about being part of something larger than yourself. Supporting Quote: Greg Matthews: “being able to connect yourself to a higher ideal is a big part of engagement and being able to do things that you couldn't do on your own by being a part. Of a group of people focused on that.” 2. The connections your organization requires to function don’t follow your org chart. Supporting Quote: Greg Matthews: “that doesn't necessarily mean that you have to throw out your org chart and replace it with a social networ

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The countdown to 100 is on at Gut+Science! As we build up to our 100th episode, we’re revisiting our 9 most popular episodes to get a refresher on how these leaders have built people-forward companies. Today we’re hearing Truth You Can Act On from our conversations with Liam Forde, Jonathan Reynolds, and Michael Crafton. Listen in for the full rundown (and you might want your notebooks handy).