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Unstoppable MindsetUnstoppable Polarity Intelligence Experts with Dr. Tracy Christopherson and Michelle TrosethAnd what, may you ask, is “polarity intelligence”? That is one of the topics we get to discuss this episode with the co-founders of the company, Missing Logic, Dr. Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth. Their company was formed to help leaders overcome leadership norms that cause suffering and take them out of good work-life balance.
Tracy and Michelle come from healthcare backgrounds. Even though they formed their company only in 2017 they have been using the tools they develop more than 20 years ago to train leaders to better understand and balance polarities. The most common example of a polarity we all e...
2024-05-141h 01
Unstoppable MindsetUnstoppable Polarity Intelligence Experts with Dr. Tracy Christopherson and Michelle TrosethAnd what, may you ask, is “polarity intelligence”? That is one of the topics we get to discuss this episode with the co-founders of the company, Missing Logic, Dr. Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth. Their company was formed to help leaders overcome leadership norms that cause suffering and take them out of good work-life balance.
Tracy and Michelle come from healthcare backgrounds. Even though they formed their company only in 2017 they have been using the tools they develop more than 20 years ago to train leaders to better understand and balance polarities. The most common example of a pola...
2024-01-191h 01
Healthcare Leader Podcast ChannelHealthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast: How to Create a Vision for Your Professional and Personal LifeDo you have a vision for your life personally and professionally? In the work we do with leaders we often find they don’t have a clear vision for their life.Without a clear vision it’s difficult to feel personally aligned, to make mindful choices, or to know what actions to take.As Yogi Berra says, “You got to be careful, if you don’t know where you are going, ‘cause you might not get there”. You end up feeling frustrated, full of regret, and wondering “how did I get here?”In today’s episode...
2024-01-0931 min
Physician Podcast ChannelHealthcare's Missing Logic: Attention Leaders! Busy is a Badge of BurnoutHow many times do you say, “I’m fine, I’m just really busy” when people ask you how you are?Being busy becomes a status symbol as a leader. In fact, the more you can do, the more you’re asked to do, and the more you feel you’re bringing value to your team and your organization.In this podcast episode, we talk about why being busy is a badge of burnout, not honor. We also discuss the importance of setting boundaries for leaders and some warning signs of wearing a badge of burnout....
2024-01-0134 minHealthcare Leader Podcast ChannelHealthcare's Missing Logic: Attention Leaders! Busy is a Badge of BurnoutHow many times do you say, “I’m fine, I’m just really busy” when people ask you how you are?Being busy becomes a status symbol as a leader. In fact, the more you can do, the more you’re asked to do, and the more you feel you’re bringing value to your team and your organization.In this podcast episode, we talk about why being busy is a badge of burnout, not honor. We also discuss the importance of setting boundaries for leaders and some warning signs of wearing a badge of burnout....
2023-12-1934 min
Burnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next LevelUnlocking TRU Leadership Success Without BurnoutWelcome to THE TRU LEADER PODCAST, previously known as Healthcare's MissingLogic Podcast, where we offer a weekly dose of personal and professional development to help leaders reach their full potential. We aim to equip high-achieving leaders with new ways of thinking and practical strategies for success.Today, we empower high-achieving leaders to break free from the norms that cause suffering and achieve thriving, resilient and unstoppable (TRU) leadership success.We are so grateful for the first 229 podcast episodes we have done specifically for healthcare leaders and are super excited to expand our audience to all...
2023-12-0621 minHealthcare Leader Podcast ChannelHealthcare's Missing Logic: Being in the Flow State as a LeaderHave you ever experienced a moment when you are deeply immersed in whatever you are doing, focused with extreme clarity and creativity, and felt incredible joy and fulfillment? That's being in the flow state, and we're going to explore it today.You may or may not know being in the flow state doesn't occur during our easiest or most relaxed moments, but usually when we are stretched to the limit with a task associated with something we enjoy and are good at.In this podcast episode, we talk about being in the flow, how you...
2023-11-0728 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#221: Leveraging Polarity Intelligence™ to Strengthen Leadership Skills & Prevent BurnoutIn this episode, we focus on leveraging Polarity Intelligence™, which is Pillar #2 of our Dynamic Balance EffectTM (DBE) Framework.Polarity Intelligence applies the “missinglogic” to leverage the unavoidable tensions and challenges impacting your daily life.The thing is, most leaders feel these tensions are problems to solve because it’s the only lens they’ve ever known. If you treat them as problems and you don’t realize that you’re experiencing unmanaged polarities, you will realize your greatest fears and end up failing.In this podcast, we talk about the numerous tensions that act on yo...
2023-10-0445 minHealthcare Leader Podcast ChannelHealthcare’s MissingLogic: Calling all Leaders! Work-Life Balance is PossibleYou've probably heard that work-life balance doesn't exist.Or maybe you've tried to balance your personal and professional life, especially during these challenging times, but you feel like it's impossible to achieve.As leaders, we're taught to look at challenges and issues as problems to solve and we think that problem-solving is the logic we apply to all challenges we face.Are we right?The thing is, not every problem is solvable, and if you can't recognize that the challenge isn't a problem to solve, then you're going to fail over...
2023-10-0329 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#218: Leadership Skills Beyond Healthcare—Expanding Your Leadership Identity Without BurnoutOne of the common questions we frequently get asked when speaking to other leaders is whether we will be doing work outside of healthcare.And guess what? We're absolutely thrilled to announce that we’re expanding our reach beyond healthcare leaders.With over 20 years of experience working with healthcare leaders and different organizations, we always knew that what we have been doing was applicable to all leaders.Therefore, we believe it's time to expand our reach and work with all leaders in all industries.In this podcast episode, we share some in...
2023-09-1313 minHealthcare Leader Podcast ChannelHealthcare's Missing Logic: Seven Reasons to Claim and Share Power for Healthcare LeadersIn this episode, we talk about the seven reasons to Claim and Share Power and why it's essential for healthcare leaders.We know most emerging and evolving leaders have been in a time of uncertainty, and they don't know what the "new normal" is as everything seems to be in a constant state of change.As a result, they go with the flow, waiting for someone to provide direction because they don't feel worthy of their power or feel that exerting their personal power is a career-ending move.The thing is, no one...
2023-07-0424 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#207: Growing Polarity Intelligent Leaders in Healthcare: Teaching New Skills and Avoiding BurnoutIn this podcast, we talk with our special guests, Michelle Pena and Kris Pohlmann, from Trinity Health Grand Rapids, who share their long-term journey with MissingLogic to grow Polarity Intelligent™ leaders within their healthcare organization.Michelle is an accomplished executive nurse leader with extensive experience in healthcare operations and strategy. She currently serves as the Chief Nursing Officer for Trinity Health Grand Rapids and Trinity Health Medical Group Grand Rapids.Kris is the Administrative Clinical Services Director for Trinity Health Grand Rapids, who specializes in clinical services for the geriatric population and orthopedic services.
2023-06-2845 minPhysician Podcast ChannelHealthcare's Missing Logic: Creating Work-Life Balance and Overcoming Guilt as a Healthcare Leader featuring Michele DerheimIn this podcast, we talk with our special guest Michele Derheim about her personal experience of work-life balance and overcoming the feeling of guilt as a healthcare leader.Michele is a Clinical Nurse Director for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Pediatric Rapid Response Team, and Pediatric Dialysis Unit at the University of Michigan’s Mott Children’s Hospital.She started working in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) directly out of nursing school and transitioned to the adult ICU. As a bedside nurse, Michele acted in charge nurse and staff educator roles, as well as t...
2023-06-2646 minHealthcare Leader Podcast ChannelHealthcare's Missing Logic: Leadership Hacks for High Performance and Effectiveness as Healthcare LeadersIn this podcast, we are joined by phenomenal leaders who share their favorite "leadership hacks" that help them become more effective in today's healthcare environment.We know that every healthcare leader wants to perform at their very best and make a positive impact on their team and organizations.In fact, most leaders are always looking for new ways of thinking, processes, and tools to utilize and share with their teams.While all leaders want to be high performers and effective, they may not know how to achieve it, especially during these challenging times...
2023-05-0944 min
Healthcare Provider Happy Hour PodcastReplay: How To Thrive as Clinicians and Leaders Through HealthyWork Cultures, Featuring MissingLogicREPLAY - Originally released June 15th, 2021; What is the significance of healthy work cultures in healthcare? How do we achieve and even sustain a healthy workplace culture? In this episode, I am joined by Michelle Troseth and Tracy Christopherson, co-founders of MissingLogic. They help healthcare organizations and healthcare leaders combat burnout through the power of a framework driven approach founded on Polarity Intelligence. The core of their work is leading healthcare organizations through transformational change that results in the best place to give and receive care, and for leaders to live their best lives both personally and p...
2023-05-0235 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#193: Lessons From Leadership: How Reflection Shapes Your Leadership Identity and Prevents BurnoutIn this episode, we share some of the experiences that have shaped us and made us into the leaders we are today.We've been leaders for a long time and we've had a lot of experiences, so it's always helpful to step back and reflect on those experiences that have shaped us or made us who we are today.In fact, this is something we did when we started MissingLogic® and it's something we do periodically as we are called to grow and evolve as leaders.In this podcast, we share some key t...
2023-03-2229 min
Medical EntrepreneurHow MissingLogic Helps Healthcare Workers Beat Burnout and Thrive➡️ Become an aesthetic injector WITHOUT wasting time or money: https://intro.aestheticnursesclub.com/masterclassDid you know that in the US, 54% of physicians and nurses are burnt out? Burnout is a state of long-term physical and mental exhaustion that can lead to serious health complications if left untreated. To think that there is a profession in which every other person suffers from this condition seems crazy, but it's true. Luckily, there are people fighting these alarming trends. Among them are Michelle Troseth and Tracy Christopherson, founders of MissingLogic. MissingLogic is a success...
2023-03-0741 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#180: Leveraging Polarity Intelligence for Leadership Skills & Burnout PreventionIn this second episode of our three-part series, we focus on leveraging Polarity Intelligence™, which is Pillar #2 of our Dynamic Balance EffectTM (DBE) Framework.Polarity Intelligence applies the “missinglogic” to leverage the unavoidable tensions and challenges impacting your daily life.The thing is, most healthcare leaders feel these tensions are problems to solve because it’s the only lens they’ve ever known. If you treat them as problems and you don’t realize that you’re experiencing unmanaged polarities, you will realize your greatest fears and end up failing.In this podcast, we talk about...
2022-12-2141 min
ACNL in Action: Lessons in Nursing LeadershipSpecial Presentation: Healthcare's MissingLogic®️ w/Dr. Kimberly LongThe podcast is on hiatus this week, but we wanted to bring you a true example of ACNL itself in action. ACNL CEO Dr. Kimberly Long was a guest on the Healthcare’s MissingLogic podcast this week. MissingLogic was a guest on our own podcast earlier this year, and Tracy and Michelle have a great interview with Dr. Long as they talk about her journey as a leader and what lessons she has for emerging leaders building resilience. What follows is the episode in full. We hope you’ll check it out, and we’ll see you next m...
2022-11-0444 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#169: Why Leadership Identity Matters: A Holistic Approach to Avoid BurnoutIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Michael Bleich about his Holistic Leadership Model and the alignment with Polarity IntelligenceTM.Michael is a Wisconsin native who has held clinical, consultative, service, academic, and association leadership positions. He has diploma, BSN, MPH, and PhD degrees from Midwestern schools and completed fellowships with the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the WK Foundation.Michael is not a stranger to Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast! He was our guest on Episode 140 when we determined at the en...
2022-10-051h 02Burnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#162: Is Your Wardrobe Hurting Your Leadership Identity? Why Style Matters More Than You ThinkIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Alma Barrero about her book "Style Power" and the importance of creating your "Personal Style" through personal alignment.Alma is an intuitive style coach, a former corporate executive, a wife, and a mother. Her proprietary Style Power Formula™ is a simple and life-changing philosophy for creating a wardrobe that aligns with who you truly are.She's also an international speaker, mentor, and entrepreneur who helps her clients from both the entrepreneurial and corporate world to create a life-changing connection with their wardrobes while manifesting more freedom an...
2022-08-1742 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#161: Why Leadership Identity Requires Polarity Intelligence to Avoid BurnoutIn this episode, we talk about the importance of Polarity Intelligence™ Awareness for healthcare leaders and why it’s essential to leverage them.We know Polarity Intelligence™ is an essential competency for healthcare leaders. Therefore, it’s important to recognize polarities and differentiate them from problems.The thing is, you can’t address and manage a polarity if you don’t know it exists or if you treat it as a problem to solve.In this podcast, we talk about four levels of Polarity Intelligence Awareness and some of the consequences that occur if you are n...
2022-08-1027 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#160: How Practice Culture Prevents Burnout (Leadership Skills for a Healthy Workplace)In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Natasha Beauvais about preventing burnout through a strong practice culture.Natasha is a Board-certified Family Medicine physician at Northern Virginia Family Practice specializing in disease prevention and helping people build insights into the connection between their physical wellness and psychological health.With more than 20 years of professional experience, she understands the deep connection between our physical well-being, medical health, and mental health.Natasha shares some of the biggest challenges to remain “human” in the workplace and some strategies for creating a practice culture that...
2022-08-0357 min
Nurse Podcast ChannelHealthcare's MissingLogic Podcast: Creating Balance: A Personal Experience with Dr. Mari TietzeIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Mari Tietze about her transformational journey through our coaching programs for healthcare leaders.Dr. Tietze is the recipient of the Myrna R. Pickard Endowed Professorship at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) College of Nursing and Health Innovation (CONHI). She also is the affiliate representing nursing at the UTA Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics.Mari shares her biggest challenges in creating a balance between her personal and professional life before joining our coaching programs.
2022-07-2839 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#159: Why Mental Habits Are the Key to Leadership Resilience & Avoiding Burnout in HealthcareIn this episode, we talk about the Six Mental Habits of a Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) healthcare leader and the different underlying polarities.We know mental habits are equally important as physical habits. In fact, without positive mental habits, you’ll end up overthinking each challenge, focusing on things that deplete your energy, and getting the same results over and over again.Therefore, establishing a positive mental habit is essential to supporting your transformation into becoming a Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) healthcare leader.In this podcast, we talk about why mental ha...
2022-07-2729 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#158: Breaking the Mental Health Stigma in Leadership (Burnout & Leadership Identity)In this episode, we talk with our special guest Corey Feist about reducing mental health stigma and the importance of mental health and well-being among healthcare professionals.Corey is a healthcare executive with over 20 years of experience. He is the President and co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation and recently served as the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Virginia Physicians Group.During his career, he has focused on transforming healthcare by empowering people and improving processes. He also holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Virginia Darden School of...
2022-07-2052 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#157: Why Treating Leadership and Management as the Same Hurts Your CareerIn this episode, we talk about Leading and Managing and some of the myths about this polarity.We know there are a few misperceptions about Leading and Managing. That it is one “versus” the other. The thing is, they are not EITHER/OR, and they are not “one and the same.”In fact, Leading and Managing are interdependent values. They are BOTH/AND, so are equally important in any organization and represent a significant polarity that must be leveraged.In this podcast, we talk about the positive attributes of Leading and Managing and different...
2022-07-1331 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#156: How Better Communication Can Prevent Burnout & Strengthen Leadership SkillsIn this podcast, we talk with our special guest Jennifer George how communication is a care methodology and how it can be used to combat burnout.Jennifer George is an award-winning author, speaker, podcaster, and compassion-focused Physiotherapist with vast experience in the private and public sectors of care.At the onset of her career, she became a caregiver to her chronically ill father. Her personal experiences helped shape her professional practice and led to writing her award-winning book, Communication is Care: 9 Empowering Strategies to Guide Patient Healing (2019).Jennifer shares her journey into Physiotherapy...
2022-07-0644 minNurse Podcast ChannelHealthcare's MissingLogic: Creating Work Life Balance When You Didn’t Trust It Was Possible with Kathy de FigueiredoIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Kathy de Figueiredo about her transformational journey through our coaching programs for healthcare leaders and the impact that has had on her as a leader.Kathy de Figueiredo is a Regional Director of Quality Improvement at Baylor Scott and White Health in College Station, Texas. Kathy has held various roles in over 30 years of healthcare experience, and she’s currently responsible for quality improvement, infection prevention, clinical compliance, patient safety, and patient experience.Kathy shares her biggest challenges in creating a b...
2022-07-0541 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#155: How Leaders Can Overcome Parent Guilt and Prevent Burnout with the CARE MethodIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Melissa Salmeron about managing parent guilt and some strategies parents can use to care for themselves and others.Melissa Salmeron is a certified master's life coach. She helps moms give themselves the space they need to defeat overwhelm, step into their power and show up as their true selves through the power of her CARE Method.Melissa shares her journey to stepping into entrepreneurship to serve overworked moms, how to establish boundaries, and how leaders can deal with parent guilt.We also talk about...
2022-06-2939 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#154: How Building a Personal Sanctuary Can Strengthen Leadership Identity & Prevent BurnoutIn this episode, we talk with our special guest P. Annie Kirk about the importance of creating a sanctuary for leaders.Annie, also known as Annie Red Bird, is a social worker turned coach and guide for inner and outer sanctuary growth and transformation. She is also a sanctuary and healing garden design expert, intuitive coach, and aspiring farmer in Oregon, United States.She is the Founder and Creative Director of Red Bird Restorative Gardens, a design consultancy creating elevated healing and empowering space restorative to a precious, energetic, and fulfilled life.Annie...
2022-06-221h 09Burnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#153: Reclaiming the Rebel: Leadership Identity & Overcoming Burnout for Sustainable Well-BeingIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Lizzy Cangro about her book “Reclaim the Rebel: 12 Rebellious Acts to Achieve Unconditional Love for Your Body” and some rebellious acts to help you transform your health and wellness.Lizzy is an expert nutritionist and wellness coach with a deep passion for helping others feel good about themselves and love their body unconditionally. Inspired by her journey to wellness, she founded Nutrition by Lizzy in 2017 to help clients rebel against the diet industry and achieve sustainable long-term health and wellness using a combination of nutrition, movement, and mindset.
2022-06-1553 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#152: Why Leadership Feels Lonely & How Caring for Each Other Prevents BurnoutIn this third and final episode of our 3-part series, we talk about Caring for Each Other and how you can spend more time caring for each other in your leadership teams as fellow leaders and friends.We know that new leaders feel incredibly lonely as they have been literally "thrown in" into leadership roles with minimal management experience and have so much to navigate through the constant stress and change. In fact, it's not uncommon for most healthcare leaders these days to "feel alone."The other thing is that healthcare leaders often feel isolated...
2022-06-0830 minNurse Podcast ChannelACNL in Action: Leadership Survival Bootcamp w/MissingLogicCharlene talks with Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth, co-founders of the leadership coaching firm MissingLogic. They talk about what's missing in healthcare and leadership training -- the "Missing Logic" -- as well as how the pandemic has affected the levels of burnout in the industry, what kinds of coaching leaders are looking for now, and their advice for nurses considering leaving the profession.Host:Charlene Platon, MS, RN, FNP-BC (@charleneplaton)Guests:Tracy Christopherson, PhD, RRT (@tracy-christopherson)Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, FNAP, FAAN (@michelletrosethJoin...
2022-06-0729 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#151: Is Servant Leadership Causing Your Burnout? The Truth No One Talks AboutIn this second episode of our three-part series, we discuss Caring for Others and why it’s important for Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) leaders.We know serving others is in your DNA as healthcare clinicians and leaders. We’ve been indoctrinated to become servant leaders, always focusing on the needs of our team and organization before our own needs.Servant leadership is not a bad thing. In fact, this approach to leadership is very rewarding and honorable until you “over-serve” and neglect yourself. As a result, you’ll end up feeling stressed, exhausted, and unfulfille...
2022-06-0123 minNurse Podcast ChannelHealthcare's MissingLogic: Attention Healthcare Leaders! Busy is a Badge of BurnoutHow many times do you say, “I’m fine, I’m just really busy” when people ask you how you are?Being busy becomes a status symbol as a healthcare leader.In fact, the more you can do, the more you’re asked to do, and the more you feel you’re bringing value to your team and your organization.In this podcast, we talk about why being busy is a badge of burnout, not honor.We also discuss the importan...
2022-05-2629 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#150: Why Leaders Must Prioritize Self-Care to Prevent BurnoutIn this first episode of a 3-part series, we focus on Caring for SELF and why it's essential for Thriving, Resilient, and Unstoppable (TRU) leaders.We know most healthcare leaders have a limiting belief that self-care is selfish. In fact, we've been indoctrinated to put ourselves last in the lists of our priorities.The thing is, if you overfocus on "Others" to the neglect of caring for "YOU", you'll experience negative consequences and end up feeling burnt out, exhausted, and your needs go unmet.In this podcast, we share WHY you need to b...
2022-05-2529 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#149: Why Leaders Struggle with Boundaries & How It Leads to BurnoutIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Terri Cole about her book “Boundary Boss” and why boundaries are important for thriving, resilient, and unstoppable leaders.Terri is a licensed psychotherapist, global relationship and empowerment expert, and the author of “Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and Finally Live Free.”For over two decades, Terri has worked with a diverse group of clients, from stay-at-home moms to celebrities and fortune 500 CEOs. She has a gift for making complex psychological concepts accessible and actionable so that clients and students achieve sustainable change.
2022-05-181h 00Burnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#148: How Post-Traumatic Growth Can Help Leaders Heal (Leadership Identity & Burnout Recovery)We know healthcare clinicians and leaders have been through unbelievable stress and trauma over the past two years. In fact, they had to make difficult decisions and deal with very challenging situations during the Covid-19 pandemic.Therefore, understanding post-traumatic growth and some simple action steps can be helpful to healthcare leaders and organizations to support their emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being.In this podcast, we talk about how a “post-traumatic growth” mindset and strategy can help you move the negative outcomes from the past into a place of positive healing, well-being, and personal growth.We...
2022-05-1140 minACNL in Action: Lessons in Nursing LeadershipLeadership Survival Bootcamp w/MissingLogicCharlene talks with Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth, co-founders of the leadership coaching firm MissingLogic. They talk about what's missing in healthcare and leadership training -- the "Missing Logic" -- as well as how the pandemic has affected the levels of burnout in the industry, what kinds of coaching leaders are looking for now, and their advice for nurses considering leaving the profession.Host:Charlene Platon, MS, RN, FNP-BC (@charleneplaton)Guests:Tracy Christopherson, PhD, RRT (@tracy-christopherson)Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, FNAP, FAAN (@michelletrosethJoin...
2022-05-0629 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#147: Why Leadership Identity Matters for Respiratory Therapists Facing BurnoutIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Joel Brown about burnout in Respiratory Therapy and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Respiratory Therapist leaders.Joel is the CEO and founder of Arrived Leadership (AL) and the President of the Executive Board for Delaware Guidance Services and Vice-Chair of the Board for Leadership Delaware Inc, and the Chair-Elect for the Leadership and Management Section of the American Association of Respiratory Care (AARC).He is an accomplished Respiratory Care Practitioner and an internationally recognized public speaker, researcher, and author. He received a baccalaureate degree...
2022-05-0455 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#146: Navigating the PhD Journey Without Burnout (Leadership Skills & Identity in Action)In this episode, we shine the spotlight on the PhD journey of MissingLogic co-founder and Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast co-host, Dr. Tracy Christopherson. In this very special episode, her best friend and business partner, Michelle Troseth, interviews her about some of her greatest lessons learned in her PhD journey.Dr. Christopherson completed her PhD in Interprofessional Healthcare Studies at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science with her dissertation on, “Exploring the Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Knowledge and Dual Identity of Interprofessional Shared Governance Members in Healthcare.”In this podcast, we talk about her post-licensure education journey...
2022-04-271h 01Nurse Podcast ChannelHealthcare's MissingLogic Podcast: Are you a “Do the Right Thing” Leader?Are you a “Do the Right Thing” Leader?We know healthcare leaders are overburdened and have a hard time doing the right thing.But there are courageous leaders who did the right thing and are not afraid to make decisions for their team.They are intentional in making courageous decisions and doing the right thing for themselves and their organization.In this episode, we talk about what courageous leaders do and how they make decisions to do the right thin...
2022-04-2622 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#145: Why Leaders Struggle With Personal Alignment & How It Impacts Leadership IdentityIn this third and final episode of our 3-part series, we focus on Personal Alignment, which is Pillar #3 of our Dynamic Balance EffectTM (DBE) Framework.We believe that Personal Alignment is about living on purpose and aligning your actions with the essence of who you really are as a healthcare leader.In this podcast, we discuss how Personal Alignment and Polarity Intelligence™ help bring out Wisdom and how Mindful Choices and Personal Alignment help leaders with Grit.We also discuss the different elements of Personal Alignment and what you can do to help you...
2022-04-2033 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#144: Leveraging Polarity Intelligence for Leadership Resilience (Avoid Burnout & Strengthen Leadership Skills)In this second episode of our three-part series, we focus on leveraging Polarity Intelligence™, which is Pillar #2 of our Dynamic Balance EffectTM (DBE) Framework.Polarity Intelligence applies the “missinglogic” to leverage the unavoidable tensions and challenges impacting your daily life.The thing is, most healthcare leaders feel these tensions are problems to solve because it’s the only lens they’ve ever known. If you treat them as problems and you don’t realize that you’re experiencing unmanaged polarities, you will realize your greatest fears and end up failing.In this podcast, we talk about...
2022-04-1341 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#144: TRU Healthcare Leader Series: Polarity IntelligenceIn this second episode of our three-part series, we focus on leveraging Polarity Intelligence™, which is Pillar #2 of our Dynamic Balance EffectTM (DBE) Framework.Polarity Intelligence applies the “missinglogic” to leverage the unavoidable tensions and challenges impacting your daily life.The thing is, most healthcare leaders feel these tensions are problems to solve because it’s the only lens they’ve ever known. If you treat them as problems and you don’t realize that you’re experiencing unmanaged polarities, you will realize your greatest fears and end up failing.In this podcast, we ta...
2022-04-1341 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#143: Making Mindful Choices to Prevent Burnout and Strengthen Leadership IdentityIn this first episode of a 3-part series, we focus on making Mindful Choices which is Pillar #1 of our Dynamic Balance Effect™ (DBE) Framework.Mindful choices as one of the pillars encompasses how to live and choose from the principles or values that ground you in what matters most and provides the guardrails for your life.But how can you make mindful choices and choose from the principles that guide and ground you? You need to step back, reevaluate, reconnect, and recommit to the most important things to you and the principles that can guide an...
2022-04-0639 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#142: Why Burnout Is Impacting New Healthcare Leaders & How to Develop Leadership Skills to Overcome ItIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Karen Mueller about her research on burnout with physical therapy students and faculty and the implications for students and new clinicians entering the workforce.Karen is a professor and founding core faculty member at Rasmussen University. She is the author of the book, “Communication from the Inside Out: Strategies for the Engaged Professional,” and has authored several articles pertaining to the role of physical therapy intervention in end-of-life care.Karen shares some significant findings of their first study published in 2018 in The International Journal of Heal...
2022-03-3049 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#141: 5 Reasons Healthcare Leaders Must Shift Leadership Norms to Prevent BurnoutCan we create new leadership norms in healthcare?Most healthcare leaders and organizations are literally living in “one day or moment at a time” survival mode. In fact, more and more healthcare leaders are leaving their positions due to burnout.Therefore, we believe NOW is the perfect time to challenge the current leadership norms and shift to NEW leadership norms. It is time to be bold enough to stop sacrificing yourself for your team and organization.We need to create new leadership norms where all healthcare leaders can be their best selves at work a...
2022-03-2334 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#140: Holistic Leadership & Post-Pandemic Opportunities for Healthcare Leaders (Burnout & Leadership Skills)In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Michael Bleich about his lessons in leadership and post-pandemic opportunities for healthcare leaders.Michael Bleich is senior professor and director at Langston Center for Innovation in Quality and Safety at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing. He is also a nationally recognized scholar and thought leader who has held clinical, consultative service, academic, and association leadership positions nationwide.We discuss the recent report “The Future of Nursing, 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity,” which explores how nurses can work to reduce health disparities, prom...
2022-03-161h 01Burnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#139: Building a Multiracial Liberation Movement through a Polarity Lens (Leadership Skills & Identity)In this episode, we talk with our special guest Beth Applegate about building a multiracial liberation movement through a polarity lens.Beth is the founder of Applegate Consulting Group (ACG), a woman-owned organizational development (OD) practice with three decades of experience with national and international not-for-profit organizations, academic institutions, and governmental agencies.She identifies as an Applied Behavioral Science scholar-practitioner positioned to bring to the forefront the tradition of inquiry and dialogue to the service of social justice and healthy individuals, groups, and organizations in the world.We discuss “Chapter 5: Support and Challenge – For...
2022-03-0958 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#138: Balancing Masculine & Feminine Energy to Prevent Burnout In LeadershipEvery human being has masculine and feminine energy, but it’s often misunderstood that feminine energy only comes with a woman or masculine energy only comes with a man.If your masculine energy and feminine energy are unbalanced, one of those energies becomes dominant, and you will feel off-balanced in your life and experience negative consequences.Therefore, understanding how to leverage both energies will help you understand the shifts that are happening at a global level to balance this energy.In this episode, we talk about a foundational “Mother Polarity” or “Master Polarity” of Masculi...
2022-03-0233 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#137: Transformational Leadership Lessons from the Pandemic (Leadership Skills & Identity)In this episode, we talk with our special guest Tasha Blackmon about transformational leadership and her lessons on leadership and the pandemic.Tasha is a dynamic, collaborative leader, mentor, and coach who brings more than 20 years of business operations experience to her role as President and Chief Executive Officer of Michigan’s largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), Cherry Health.During her years with Cherry Health, she has championed health justice by aggressively disrupting healthcare disparities, leading numerous large-scale expansion and development projects, and holding six positions within Cherry Health before becoming CEO in 2018....
2022-02-2359 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#136: Why Workplace Drama Is Hurting Your Leadership Identity & How To Fix ItIn this episode, we talk with our special guest David Emerald about his powerful frameworks, self-leadership, and transforming organizations.David Emerald is a co-founder of the Bainbridge Leadership Center (Bainbridge Island, WA). He is the author of The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic), a teaching story about Self Leadership, and has recently published his second book called 3 Vital Questions: Transforming Workplace Drama, a teaching story about workplace drama and its heavy costs to organizations.David shares the different elements of the Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT)™, including the three roles—Victim, Rescuer, and Persecutor and The...
2022-02-1659 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#135: Rethinking Resilience for Healthcare Leaders: Leadership Skills to Prevent BurnoutIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Sonia Udod about her published article on rethinking resilience and its implication for healthcare leaders.Dr. Udod is the PI of Translating Evidence for Nursing LEADership (LEAD) and Health Services to Improve Outcomes Program, which focuses on enhancing nurse leader development critical to creating high-quality healthcare workplaces, leading to quality nurse, patient, and organizational outcomes.Sonia also shares her passion for enhancing nurse leader capacity in the workplace and teaching students to be effective healthcare leaders.We also discuss some strategies on how...
2022-02-0945 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#134: From Drowning to Thriving: How Healthcare Leaders Can Beat Burnout & Lead with ConfidenceWe know how important healthcare leaders are to the healthcare system, especially during these challenging times. If the leaders do not stay strong and healthy through the pandemic, the whole system is at risk.The thing is, many healthcare leaders feel like they are out of the boat now, drowning and barely keeping their heads above water. In fact, there is new data emerging showing a high percentage of leaders are considering leaving their positions.In this episode, we talk about what we're hearing from healthcare leaders all around the country. We also share some...
2022-02-0224 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#133: Unlocking Leadership Identity Without Burnout: A Real-Life Success StoryIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Kathy de Figueiredo about her transformational journey through our coaching programs for healthcare leaders and the impact that has had on her as a leader.Kathy de Figueiredo is a Regional Director of Quality Improvement at Baylor Scott and White Health in College Station, Texas. Kathy has held various roles in over 30 years of healthcare experience, and she’s currently responsible for quality improvement, infection prevention, clinical compliance, patient safety, and patient experience.Kathy shares her biggest challenges in creating a balance between her personal and pro...
2022-01-2640 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#132: Work-Life Balance Is Possible—Here’s How to Achieve It (Leadership Skills & Identity)You've probably heard that work-life balance doesn't exist.Or maybe you've tried to balance your personal and professional life, especially during these challenging times, but you feel like it's impossible to achieve. As healthcare leaders, we're taught to look at challenges and issues as problems to solve and we think that problem-solving is the logic we apply to all challenges we face.Are we right?The thing is, not every problem is solvable, and if you can't recognize that the challenge isn't a problem to solve, then you're going to fail...
2022-01-1924 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#131: Balancing Leadership Identity to Avoid Burnout: One Leader’s JourneyIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Mari Tietze about her transformational journey through our coaching programs for healthcare leaders.Dr. Tietze is the recipient of the Myrna R. Pickard Endowed Professorship at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) College of Nursing and Health Innovation (CONHI). She also is the affiliate representing nursing at the UTA Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics.Mari shares her biggest challenges in creating a balance between her personal and professional life before joining our coaching programs.She also shares some of the significant differences...
2022-01-1239 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#130: How to Become the CEO of Your Life (Leadership Skills & Identity Shift)Today’s episode is all about “How to become the CEO of your life.”We believe that if you're not taking full responsibility for your life and you're blaming circumstances and making an excuse not to do the things that serve your purpose, then you're not the CEO of your life.Maybe you have a limiting belief that you don't have a choice, or you’re not in control of your own life.But if you're the CEO of your life, you can give yourself the agency to realign your purpose, you have the choi...
2022-01-0527 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#129: Why Being “Too Busy” Is a Sign of Burnout for Leaders & How to Break the CycleHow many times do you say, “I’m fine, I’m just really busy” when people ask you how you areBeing busy becomes a status symbol as a healthcare leader.In fact, the more you can do, the more you’re asked to do, and the more you feel you’re bringing value to your team and your organization.In this podcast, we talk about why being busy is a badge of burnout, not honor.We also discuss the importance of setting boundaries for healthcare leaders and some warning signs you are wear...
2021-12-2929 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#128: Transformational Leadership & Community Impact (Leadership Identity & Skills)In this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Kevin Sneed, a tenured Professor and the founding Dean of the USF Health Taneja College of Pharmacy.Kevin shares his WE-CARE (Workgroup Enhancing Community Advocacy and Research Engagement) program, which helps to improve health outcomes among minority populations, increases research participation, and builds connections and trust between the community and researchers.He also mentions his partnership with different organizations like American Heart Association and REACHUP, Inc that educates African American and Latino communities on how to understand the coronavirus and prepare for the vaccine, especially...
2021-12-2256 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#127: Are You a “Do the Right Thing” Leader? (Leadership Skills & Identity in Action)Are you a “Do the Right Thing” Leader?We know healthcare leaders are overburdened and have a hard time doing the right thing.But there are courageous leaders who did the right thing and are not afraid to make decisions for their team.They are intentional in making courageous decisions and doing the right thing for themselves and their organization.In this episode, we talk about what courageous leaders do and how they make decisions to do the right thing.We also share some characteristics of courageous leaders, their valu...
2021-12-1521 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#126: Candor and Diplomacy: A Leadership Skill Every Leader Needs to Prevent BurnoutWe have experienced some of the most challenging and polarizing times in recent history.We are exposed to different points of view and what might appear to be opposite or conflicting perspectives and values on a daily basis.Differing perspectives and points of view can be good. In this episode, we talk about recognizing when conflicting or opposing perspectives need each other to serve a bigger purpose and how that can change the conversation.One way to deal with a polarity is to understand the polarity itself of candor and diplomacy so you...
2021-12-0830 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#125: How "BOTH/AND" Can Help Leaders Navigate Challenges (Leadership Skills & Identity)In this episode, we talk with Dr. Barry Johnson, about the book AND: Making a Difference by Leveraging Polarity, Paradox or Dilemma, Volume Two: Applications.“AND” is for people who want to make a positive difference by overcoming obstacles such as resistance to change and polarization.Barry shares, Volume 2 is a representation of the expansive application of Polarity Thinking™ from different perspectives and experiences of people skilled in leveraging polarities.In this book, different authors come from a variety of disciplines such as coaches, teachers, and consultants who share their personal stories and knowle...
2021-12-011h 05
The Health Design PodcastMichelle Troseth and Tracy Christopherson , co-founders of MissingLogicMichelle and Tracy have been interprofessional leaders, friends and colleagues for over 30 years. They are co-hosts of a top healthcare leadership podcast, Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast.
Michelle and Tracy have a combined experience of more than 60 years working as consultants and coaches for healthcare organizations across North America supporting healthcare leaders as they strive to create healthy, healing work cultures. They frequently speak at national and international leadership conferences on the topics of managing healthcare polarities, achieving work life balance and living a resilient life.
MissingLogic was recently featured on CNBC for their work with healthcare organizations and their Healthy He...
2021-11-2927 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#124: Why Gratitude is a Critical Leadership Skill to Prevent Burnout & Unlock Your PotentialToday’s episode is all about gratitude and being grateful.We believe that practicing gratitude makes you a stronger person and a stronger healthcare leader.Gratitude is one of our six core values at MissingLogic® and in today’s episode we share how we practice gratitude in our business.We know it can be difficult to find things to be grateful for, during these challenging times.We share how we have looked at the opportunities in front of us and the positive things that have happened with gratitude.In fact...
2021-11-2426 min
The Healthcare Leadership MindsetLeadership and the Importance of Self Care with Michelle Troseth & Tracy ChristophersonDespite the well-known benefits, many leaders remain resistant to the idea of self-care. Tune in to today's episode to learn more about why now is the time to embrace the notion of self-care in a way that will help you perform at your best, as well as positively impact those around you. Michelle Troseth and Tracy Christopherson are co-founders of MissingLogic®. They help healthcare organizations and healthcare leaders combat burnout through the power of a framework driven approach founded on Polarity Intelligence™. The core of their work is leading healthcare organizations through transformational change that results in the...
2021-11-2237 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#123: The Leadership Mistake That Leads to Burnout: Prioritizing Others Over YourselfOne of the biggest mistakes healthcare leaders make today is thinking they don't have enough time to care for themselves but have time for everybody else.We know you're pushed to the limit right now, and you're dealing with staff shortages and increasing competing demands of your priorities.In this podcast, we discuss what it really means when people say, "I don't have time for me."We talk about three behaviors that indicate you're making the mistake of believing you don't have enough time.We also share proven strategies for flipping...
2021-11-1720 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#122: Creating Healthy Work Environments To Prevent Burnout in LeadershipIn this episode, we talk with our special guest Dr. Liz Madigan about the importance of creating healthy work environments in academia and practice.Dr. Madigan is a Chief Executive Officer at Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She is also a tenured professor at the Francis Payne Bolton School of Nursing Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.Liz shares how Sigma recognizes and honors clinical facilities and academic settings that have demonstrated commitment in promoting a healthy work environment.She also talks about some of the issues like incivility...
2021-11-1045 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#121: Choosing Leadership Identity Over Burnout: How to Thrive Without Sacrificing YourselfSome healthcare leaders have been thrust into a leadership role and do what’s needed for their team and organization, especially during these challenging times.We know you feel conflicted due to internal and external factors that impact you and create a chronic tension between your current reality and what you want as a leader.Are we right?The good thing is, you can choose and take control of your own inflection point so that you can move forward as a healthcare leader.In this episode, we ask you, “What kind of l...
2021-11-0328 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#120: Burnout Warning: Why Overworked Leaders Must Prioritize Self-CareWhy is self-care not selfish?It is actually the best thing you can do for your team.Think about it, when you are putting your team and their needs before your own, day after day, how often do you end up feeling tired, crabby, and drained?What kind of self-care role model are you being?It’s easy to see, you can be letting your team down by NOT prioritizing your health and well-being, is it not?In this podcast, we talk about the importance of “self-care” and how to bre...
2021-10-2729 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#119: Why Ignoring Grief in Leadership Leads to Burnout & How to Fix ItWe know many people experienced grief as a result of Covid-19, especially healthcare leaders and frontline staff in the healthcare field.Although grief is unique to each person, and no one can be compared to one another, there are patterns that significantly impact one’s mind, body, and spirit.In this episode, nurse executive Lori Wightman shares her personal experience with grief and how she handled it. In addition, she shares some strategies she identified to improve how grief is managed in the workplace.We discuss her recent article “The Next Chapter: A Leade...
2021-10-2046 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#118: Why Traditional Leadership Norms Are Fueling Burnout—And What To Do InsteadIn healthcare one of the leadership norms is leaders sacrifice, they put everyone else first. This is especially true now, during these challenging times.You’ve been indoctrinated to be a servant leader, always focusing on the needs of the team, the organization, the patients and families, before giving attention to your own needs.Servant leadership is not a bad thing, until you “over-serve” and neglect yourself.With this unipolar approach of leadership, healthcare leaders end up burned out, exhausted, and empty.In this podcast, we discussed redefining leadership norms and taking...
2021-10-1329 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#117: From Trauma to Triumph: Leadership Skills for Thriving Beyond CrisisIn this episode, we talk with co-authors Dr. Mark Goulston and Dr. Diana Hendel about their book Trauma to Triumph: A Roadmap for Leading Through Disruption (and Thriving on the Other Side).Mark and Diana share how the pandemic traumatizes healthcare leaders, employees, and organizations, sending everyone into survival mode.In their book, Mark and Diana said that if the crisis is not "named and claimed" as trauma and managed effectively, it's sure to linger on in the form of chronic stress and anxiety. And left unspoken and unaddressed, blame, shame, and guilt often permeate...
2021-10-0657 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#116: Why Most Leaders Struggle With Vision (And How It’s Leading to Burnout)Do you have a vision for your life personally and professionally? In the work we do with healthcare leaders we often find they don’t have a clear vision for their life. Without a clear vision it’s difficult to feel personally aligned, to make mindful choices, or to know what actions to take. As Yogi Berra says, “You got to be careful, if you don’t know where you are going, ‘cause you might not get there”. You end up feeling frustrated, full of regret, and wondering “how did I get here?” In today’s episode we are sharing with you how t...
2021-09-2926 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#115: Virtual Care & Leadership: Navigating Healthcare Transformation Without BurnoutThere were a few silver linings in the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, we are going to talk with our friend and colleague Bruce Brandes about one of the most significant outcomes of the pandemic, which was the advancement of telehealth. Bruce helps us gain a deeper understanding of virtual care, what it is, and why it is an important component of the future of healthcare and a critical factor in healthcare transformation. We talk about the natural tension between virtual care and in-person care and why it’s not an option to make an either/or choice.For...
2021-09-2243 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#114: The Top 10 Secrets To Strong Partnerships (Leadership Identity & Burnout Prevention)As Meg Wheatly says, “Relationships are everything!” There isn’t much more stressful than a strained or difficult relationship at work or at home. If you’re doing one of the following things 1) not making relationships a priority, 2) struggling with how to build a strong relationship, or 3) thinking relationships are “soft, fluffy stuff” and you don’t have time for that, then we guarantee your relationships are strained, your energy is drained, and you’re unhappy. We’ve been blessed with strong partnerships in all aspects of our lives and in this episode we share with you our top ten secrets to str...
2021-09-1532 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#113: Tackling Clinician Burnout: Leadership Skills for Supporting Well-BeingThe battle against clinician burnout is real. You may or may not realize there was a significant problem with clinician burnout prior to the pandemic and now on top of that clinicians are experiencing significant mental health and PTSD challenges as a result of their experiences during the COVID pandemic. This is not a battle individuals can fight alone. System supports, infrastructures, and leadership are critical. In this episode we speak with Dr. Christine Pabico and Paulette Sepe about what ANCC and the Pathway to Excellence Program® does to support clinician well-being.For full show notes and link...
2021-09-0839 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#112: Is Your Leadership Style Leading to Burnout? Why Some Healthcare Leaders Thrive While Others StruggleWhy is it that some healthcare leaders are barely surviving the COVID pandemic and recovery phase, and others are thriving? If you are barely surviving then you have let go of your dream or desires, you’re settling or telling yourself what you have is good enough, or you’re just keeping your head down and moving forward the best you can. Does that sound familiar? In this episode we are talking about being a TRU Healthcare Leader and the characteristics they embody that set them apart from those that are only surviving. You’ll learn how they do it and...
2021-09-0132 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#111: How Smart Leaders Use Nutrition to Boost Leadership Skills & Avoid BurnoutWhen it comes to well-being and living a balanced life, two of the top outcomes healthcare leaders we work with identify as desirable are to live a healthy lifestyle and to eat healthy food. These two outcomes are on almost everyone’s Blueprint in our bootcamp. What we know is if they take the actions necessary to each healthy it won’t be out of balance in their lives. So, we are going to an expert in today’s episode to identify what eating healthy really means. You’ll also learn what impact nutrition has on your physical and mental well...
2021-08-2542 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#110: Breaking Free from Victim Mode to Build a Next Level Leadership IdentityIf you are feeling stuck, fearful, or disappointed, you are doing one or more of the following things. Your attention is focused on what is happening or not happening around you, you’re convinced your circumstances are the reason you don’t have what you want, and you say things like “it’s never going to change”. Are we right? Letting your circumstances drive your results puts you in “victim mode” and it is a vicious and unconscious cycle that keeps you swirling. In this episode, we talk about how to break the vicious cycle and become the creator of your life.
2021-08-1828 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#109: How the Pandemic Exposed Leadership Burnout & Identity Challenges for Women in the WorkforceThe COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on all of us. There wasn’t anything in our day-to-day lives that wasn’t impacted. Adults with children faced many challenges. They experienced, changes in their work and home lives and in the structures that provide them support. Some were impacted more than others and in different ways. The conflict between work and home had a significant impact on women in the workforce. Today we talk with Tracy’s son, Dr. Daniel Carlson, about the research he and his colleagues conducted and what they learned about the impact the pandemic had on women...
2021-08-1144 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#108: How Smart Leaders Use Tension to Build Stronger Leadership Skills & Prevent BurnoutTension exists in all aspects of our life. Many of the tensions we experience are perpetual, in other words, they never go away. When the tension isn’t managed or leveraged, it can feel heavy or negative. You may or may not already be realizing, if the tension isn’t going away, your best chance for a positive outcome is to learn to manage or leverage the tension. In this episode, we have fun combining two of our passions (Polarity Intelligence™ & the game of golf) to show you how to leverage chronic tensions.For full show notes and links...
2021-08-0431 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#107: Balancing Activity & Rest for Leadership Well-Being (Avoid Burnout & Build Leadership Skills)Improving the well-being of clinicians and leaders is on the minds and agenda in many organizations. It is also a focal point for professional and national organizations. One of the key elements of wellness includes the dynamic balance of activity and rest. Doesn’t matter what profession you represent or what role you’re in, all clinicians and leaders need balance in these areas to thrive. So today, we are going to look at creating this dynamic balance with Dr. Vicky Tiase. Vicky is going to share her unique insights based on her experience and perspective as a professional athl...
2021-07-2843 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#106: Why Leadership Skills Alone Won’t Solve Every Problem (Polarity Intelligence™ for Sustainable Success)One of the core characteristics of a strong leader is they are an excellent problem solver. As clinicians you are also trained to solve problems for the patients/clients you serve. But what we’ve come to learn is not all problems are solvable, and problem-solving skills don’t work on all the challenges that leaders face. So, then what do you do? Today, we are going to tell you what you can do. We are going to talk about an essential competency every leader must have to overcome unsolvable problems and achieve sustainable outcomes.For full show not...
2021-07-2128 min
NursePreneursFrom Burnout to Balance: Michelle & Tracy on Creating Healthy Work CulturesOur guests Michelle & Tracy are the co-founders of MissingLogic, LLC. Both with unique backgrounds in nursing/respiratory therapy, Michelle & Tracy’s paths crossed at hospital orientation, and they’ve been working together for three decades since.
Working for over 25 years with a large global company that focused on healthy healing work culture, this dynamic duo fulfilled their legacy career and branched out on their own.
MissingLocic began in 2018 as a resource for healthcare leaders and organizations to combat burnout and create thriving work environments for medical professionals and leaders.
Taking a systematic approach to burnout, Michelle & Tracy use a mechanism call...
2021-07-0828 min
Healthcare Provider Happy Hour PodcastHow To Thrive as Clinicians and Leaders Through Healthy Work Cultures, Featuring MissingLogicWhat is the significance of healthy work cultures in healthcare? How do we achieve and even sustain a healthy workplace culture? In this episode, I am joined by Michelle Troseth and Tracy Christopherson, co-founders of MissingLogic. They help healthcare organizations and healthcare leaders combat burnout through the power of a framework driven approach founded on Polarity Intelligence. The core of their work is leading healthcare organizations through transformational change that results in the best place to give and receive care, and for leaders to live their best lives both personally and professionally. Listen in...
2021-06-1535 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#100: How Leadership Identity & Support Systems Help Avoid Burnout: Our 100th Episode CelebrationThis 100th episode marks a major milestone in Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast history.Our core values include celebration and gratitude, so we are celebrating and expressing our gratitude in this episode! We are very grateful for our listeners and have thoroughly enjoyed producing the last 99 episodes of the podcast!During the episode you get to meet our Sound Doctor and our Personal Assistants who happen to be our husbands! The show wouldn’t go on without the support of these guys!We also share some BFF stories and vacation stories as well...
2021-06-0936 min
Positioning to ProfitResilience in Business with Tracy Christopherson & Michelle TrosethReady to Position Your Business to Profit? Go to-->>> http://positioningtoprofit.com/
Hey there, my sweet listener, how are you? This is episode 91 of the Positioning to Profit Podcast and I am happy you're here. I appreciate you, I appreciate you stopping by and checking out this episode. Today's topic is how to be more resilient in your business. Because who couldn't use more of that? During tough times, during the wall kicking moments, the uncertainty that you may be confronted with, because let's be honest, those moments are inevitable. It's about how you can move through that, how you ca...
2021-04-0734 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#81: Setting Boundaries for Leadership Resilience: Avoid Burnout and Strengthen Your Leadership IdentityIf you are like many of the overwhelmed healthcare leaders we talk with you feel stretched beyond your capabilities on a day-to-day basis. One of the ways you can have more energy, time and balance in your life is to establish boundaries. In this episode we explore why it’s important to set boundaries, how boundaries can lead to resilience and balance in your life, and how they are a form of self-care. Continually adding more to your plate and not taking anything off results in stress and overwhelm. While the COVID pandemic may hav...
2021-01-2726 min
A New Way of WorkingEpisode 02: MissingLogic | The LiftMichelle Troseth and Tracy Christopherson are co-founders of MissingLogic. They help healthcare organizations and healthcare leaders combat burnout through the power of a framework driven approach founded on Polarity Intelligence™. The core of their work is leading healthcare organizations through transformational change that results in the best place to give and receive care, and for leaders to live their best lives both personally and professionally.
These two women have been in the healthcare industry for over 30 years themselves. Michelle is the immediate past president of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) and is a fellow in the American Academy of Nu...
2020-12-2222 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#71: Why Leadership Relationships Are Key to Overcoming Burnout & Strengthening Leadership IdentityIn this episode we interview our dear colleagues Ramona Cheek and Faith Roberts. Ramona is a Chief Nursing Officer and Faith is a well-regarded speaker and storyteller and is an Executive Director of Spiritual Care. These two met by chance at a picnic (you’ll have to listen to get the whole story). This chance meeting was the beginning of an amazing personal and professional relationship that has lasted the test of time. At the start of the interview Faith and Ramona share how they have kept their relationship strong. They note that authenticity, intention, having mothers as stro...
2020-11-1858 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#70: How Leadership Skills in Healthcare Tech Can Reduce Burnout & Drive InnovationIn this episode we interview Nancy Beale. Nancy is a business owner and a nationally recognized and award-winning nurse leader in health information technology (HIT) with a broad span of HIT experience across the healthcare industry. At the start of the interview Nancy shares her greater purpose for the adoption of technologies that have a positive impact on clinical practice and patient outcomes, and why that is the driver behind her work and her research. Nancy points out there are varying levels of adoption of technology. She also notes healthcare leaders spend a lot of time, mo...
2020-11-1145 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#69: How Overworked Leaders Can Strengthen Productivity & Relationships Without Burning OutTo say these are challenging times is an understatement!How do you discern what is a priority when everything is a priority?When we recorded this episode there was no such thing as COVID-19. As leaders you are working in face paced environments with increasing demands and at the same time attempting to address clinician burnout. Now on top of all that you are finding yourself responsible for leading your organization through the unprecedented times with COVID-19.All of this comes at a time when you may have already been having di...
2020-11-0420 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#68: Leading Innovation Without Burnout (Leadership Skills for Healthcare Leaders)In this episode we interview Dr. Dan Weberg. Dan is the Head of Clinical Innovation for Trusted Health. Dan is also the host of The Handoff Podcast, which focuses on critical topics in nursing that are usually not talked about. Dan says, “You don’t have to be an innovator to lead innovation.” At the start of the interview Dan shares how Trusted Health is like a combo of LinkedIn and Match.com for nurses. Dan points out Trusted Health’s goal is to “be the single source for nurses to manage their professional liv...
2020-10-2847 minBurnout Proof Leadership: Shift Your Identity, Develop New Skills & Leverage Workplace Tensions to Unlock your Next Level#67: Infusing Joy in Leadership: Avoiding Burnout & Building Stronger Leadership SkillsIn this episode we interview Dr. Richard (Ric) Ricciardi. Ric is currently the 33rd President of Sigma, the international honor society of nursing. Dr. Ricciardi has declared his intention to “infuse joy” into healthcare and nursing during his time as the President of Sigma. At the start of the interview Ric reminds us that it is important to think about joy and gratitude every day. In the interview Ric also conveys his thoughts and reflections on how people today tend to focus on what they don’t have, rather than what they do have, and miss the joy...
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