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Sixseed Partners We guide forward-thinking healthcare leaders, teams, and systems to create sustainable, transformational change.

"The Grateful Patient Project (2017) is a non-profit organization that was founded by former NFL kicker and Man of the Y...
09/08/2023

"The Grateful Patient Project (2017) is a non-profit organization that was founded by former NFL kicker and Man of the Year Rolf Benirschke, in 2017. It provides a platform for patients to share their stories of gratitude for the healthcare providers, medicines, procedures, and institutions that supported them through illness and changed their lives." Benirschke was inspired to create this effort in gratitude for healthcare workers who saved his life allowing him to return to NFL football in 1980.

https://nationaltoday.com/national-grateful-patient-day/

We honor all healthcare workers, along with the families and friends of patients, who sustain and inspire those with illness to keep working for greater wellness, however defined.

09/06/2023

Happy to share this post from on his September 12th workshop entitled: "Authentic Leadership for Designers." In this post, McCann succinctly describes the key shift from traditional horizontal development (the what of leadership - skill building) to the how of leadership (impacting how leaders think which then impacts behavior and results). Integrating both horizontal and vertical development is a key tenet of our work at SixSEED Partners. Consider participating in McCann's September 12th workshop to learn more and contact us at [email protected].

read post here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/christopherdmccann_designleadership-verticaldevelopment-leadershipdevelopment-activity-7102896788797349889-gtAB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

"When leaders try to control every aspect of the work, employees aren’t motivated to innovate and experiment. This lack ...
09/02/2023

"When leaders try to control every aspect of the work, employees aren’t motivated to innovate and experiment. This lack of trust and motivation creates a never-ending cycle of bureaucracy."

Hamel refers to human-centered leadership as humanocracy, or relying on people instead of rigid rules and procedures.

He further describes the seven principles of humanocracy. These ideas put people at the center of the organization and empower employees with trust instead of making them work through red tape.

At a time when trust is at an all time low, adopting human-centered practices may stem the tide of organizating threats and mass resignations.

Read article here: https://jacobm.medium.com/the-7-principles-of-humanocracy-c0ff379a0f95

With national, if not international healthcare worker shortages, and looming threats of organizing, how does a leader fo...
08/25/2023

With national, if not international healthcare worker shortages, and looming threats of organizing, how does a leader foster psychological safety in service to creating healthy cultures and high performing teams?
In this 2021 Harvard Business Review article, Amy Edmondson and Per Hugander highlight four steps to boost psychological safety in the workplace. These techniques/ steps:

"help management teams practice perspective taking and strategic focus while building a capacity for candor and vulnerability."

While Edmondson and Hugander don't call out the capacity for both/and thinking, implied in the capacity for perspective taking and being able to manage candor and vulnerability is the capacity to think both/and. At SixSEED Partners, we have been teaching our clients this key capacity so that, as Edmondson and Hugander state, leaders make quicker and better decisions.

Curious how you might bring this to your teams? Please contact us at: https://lnkd.in/gPbhaDj. Our passion is working with proactive leaders and systems to create healthy workplaces that result in cultures of psychological safety and well-being.

Read article here: https://lnkd.in/dGmPTf5

08/23/2023

Many thanks to for offering a perspective to decrease leadership silos and an invitation to create interdependencies-- connections. He states:

"It's apparent that we've consigned strategy, culture, leadership, coaching, mentoring, learning, technical skills, and people skills into distinct silos, each meticulously managed in isolation. Yet, my conviction is that we should pivot away from this narrow perspective, transitioning towards an outlook that perceives these facets as a cohesive whole, each element interdependent and dynamic."

At SixSEED Partners, we have been facilitating workshops where we immerse executives and emerging leaders in ways to think interdependently so that strategy and operations are addressed; people and processes; accountability and empowerment; Individual hospital and corporate systems are leveraged. For those who love measurement, we have a way for you to bring data into this work as well (although you could also create rapid feedback systems to make real time change!).

Want to know more? Contact us: https://sixseedpartners.com/contact/. We want to help you get results with less energy spend.

Read post here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7099472274444980225/

One of our clients recently asked us if we could integrate elements related to psychological safety into our culture cha...
08/22/2023

One of our clients recently asked us if we could integrate elements related to psychological safety into our culture change efforts. This patient care and nursing vice-president said that: "what keeps me up at night is retaining our patient care staff and leaders." "We are pushing them so hard." Perhaps you share a similar concern. This HBR article: "What is Psychological Safety?" by Amy Gallo describes psychological safety and highlights several strategies outlined by Amy Edmondson Ph.D. Amongst those are: "Make Clear Why Employees' Voices Matter;" "Admit Your Own Fallibility;" "Actively invite input;" and "Respond Productively."

Read article here: https://lnkd.in/eEXYwD8u

Continuing our theme of psychological safety, this article by McKinsey & Company: "Psychological Safety and the Critical...
08/17/2023

Continuing our theme of psychological safety, this article by McKinsey & Company: "Psychological Safety and the Critical Role of Leadership Development" describes research linking leadership development to high psychological safety cultures:

"Investing in and scaling up leadership-development programs can equip leaders to embody these behaviors and consequently cultivate psychological safety across the organization."

This article eludes to what we at SixSEED Partners train our clients in which is using both/and thinking to address complex challenges. If we are to sustainably create cultures of psychological safety, we must have leaders who can leverage challenging teams and supporting teams; practice advocacy (telling) and inquiry (asking questions, getting curious); flexing their style to leverage candor and diplomacy; and most importantly, when delegating, giving freedom and holding accountable.

Would you like to develop your leaders to be able to lead their teams toward creating psychologically safe environments? We'd love to hear from you! https://sixseedpartners.com/contact/

Read article here: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/psychological-safety-and-the-critical-role-of-leadership-development

Blog Post here: https://sixseedpartners.com/2023/08/psychological-safety/

08/11/2023

With gratitude to Nicki Roth for posting this updated graphic of Dave Ulrich's Leadership Pipeline. As SixSEED Partners work with our clients, we invite them to re-think succession planning to a shift from preparing a few for select positions, to developing the capacity to think and better lead in complexity. In the graph posted by The Talent Guru, you will notice an evolution from task oriented and defined capacities to more of leading and growing others to create a culture of well-being and excellence. How are you intentionally developing your leaders so that their thinking expands before they are promoted into more complex roles? We'd welcome chatting with you about proven methods that respect your team's and the organization's most pressing needs.

Link to our blog page: https://lnkd.in/dKW9dz8W

Read post here: https://lnkd.in/df5wbvpn

08/04/2023

In this succinct HBR article, Nataly Kogan highlights six evidence-based, individual strategies to improve well-being at work. She acknowledges that improving well-being has individual and systemic implications, and in this article she lists six bite-sized actions that, when performed consistently, have been proven to impact one's sense of well-being.

https://lnkd.in/dppBrpJz

"When it comes to improving well-being at work, small things make a big difference if you practice them consistently."

Why not choose one and practice it now. Which did you choose and what impact has it had? We'd love to hear from you! You can contact us here: https://lnkd.in/gPbhaDj

08/02/2023

The link below will take you to Deloitte's Workforce Well-Being survey results which revealed a disconnect between employee ratings of their well-being and how executives perceived employee well-being. The results showed significant self-reported levels of exhaustion, stress and other markers in staff and leaders:

"For example, around half “always” or “often” feel exhausted (52%) or stressed (49%), and others report feeling overwhelmed (43%), irritable (34%), lonely (33%), depressed (32%), and even angry (27%). These issues aren’t limited to workers, however. Managers and executives are struggling too, and they are about as likely as employees (or in some cases, more likely) to report these sentiments."

In their three keys to unlocking workforce wellbeing, at SixSEED Partners, we are most aligned with creating cultures of human sustainability. Our mission has always been: "to provide integrated solutions to create health for all."

Read article here: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/talent/workplace-well-being-research.html?id=us:2sm:3li:4diUS176320:5awa:6di:MMDDYY:author&pkid=1011387

If you'd like to advance this work where organizational health, employee health, clinician health, and supplier health thrive, contact us at: https://sixseedpartners.com/contact/. We would love to partner with you!

07/26/2023

"Surrounded by complexity, the leaders and teams I work with often find themselves stuck in their heads and disconnected from the rich data and insights available in their bodies. Our brains are marvelous things, but leadership is an embodied practice that requires an integration of heart, hands, and head."

So starts Paul Byrne's concise post on the benefit and practice of taking "Three Breaths." At SixSEED Partners, we often design our facilitations making sure that we're integrating heart, head, and hands. This simple centering practice can help you feel more grounded, which then impacts your thinking which impacts your behavior and results. Want a quick way to promote your best thinking and actions? Try taking "Three Breaths." As Paul points out, you have to breathe anyway!

Read post here: https://lnkd.in/dvG568qA

07/21/2023

We are so proud to promote the great work of Cliff Kayser, our Chief Science Officer for SixSEED Partners. Cliff recently returned from Brazil where he facilitated several training sessions teaching leaders better decision-making through both/and thinking: polarity thinking. While not directly related to healthcare, Cliff immersed these leaders in more systemic thinking and decision-making around profit and sustainability-- what we in healthcare call Margin and Mission.

If you are challenged by the demands of providing quality care while also reducing budgets, contact us so we can share the impact polarity thinking can have on excellence and wellbeing.

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