Kristine Dickson
Planting Seeds

In looking at improving collaboration across all levels and empowering employees to express their ideas, I took baseline measures across the following actions:

— How often do I seek out feedback about our clinical programs and my performance? Baseline: 0 occurrences per week
— How often do I seek out ideas from others when engaging in clinical programming? Baseline: 0 occurrences per week

Although I have a strong clinical vision for most cases that the practice takes on, I was a little shocked at the 0.

Planting Seeds
Kristine Dickson
Checking in with the Stakeholders

Step one of our experiment in using OBM and the principles of the book The 5 Scientific Laws of Life & Leadership to heighten Nurture & Nature’s profile and further develop my leadership skills.

Checking in with the Stakeholders

Planting Seeds

Planting Seeds

In looking at improving collaboration across all levels and empowering employees to express their ideas, I took baseline measures across the following actions:

— How often do I seek out feedback about our clinical programs and my performance? Baseline: 0 occurrences per week
— How often do I seek out ideas from others when engaging in clinical programming? Baseline: 0 occurrences per week

Although I have a strong clinical vision for most cases that the practice takes on, I was a little shocked at the 0.

A New Mission

A New Mission

Anyone who knows me knows I am passionate and can be fiery about things that I care about deeply. This fire both fuels and burns, and I admit giving and getting feedback is hard. When employees are careless with things that I care about — the impact our actions have on our clients, lawful compliance, honesty, safety, ethics, to name a few — I can tend to express my feedback to them quite passionately, never name calling or discriminatory, but impassioned, consumed and intense.

We Don't Learn Our ABC's by Saying Them... We Sing!

We Don't Learn Our ABC's by Saying Them... We Sing!

Music is universal.  Its origins are known in every culture, as there has yet to be discovered a culture that does not integrate music into their society (Worth, 1997). Music containing lyrics is a powerful form of expression that dates back to ancient Sanskrit Dramas of India and the Greek Dramas of Classical Antiquity. Music offers us as a species an entire new vocabulary for self-expression. As Plato declared, “Music is moral law.  It gives the soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything” (Paquette & Rieg, 2008).

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