Next Tuesday, January 24th at 12:00pm, we’re excited to bring in Dr. Rachel MK Headley who will help us develop a Growth Mindset as we launch the new year and prepare for the move to the HCMD. Dr. Headley will walk us through different personality styles and approaches to change and give us tangible tools on how to lead each personality type through transition.

The New Year is a unique moment in time where, collectively, we tend to feel renewed inspiration and determination to set new goals. But, January 1 isn’t the only time we can take advantage of that energy and momentum and chart a new course.

Research on the “Fresh-Start Effect” reveals that ANY new beginning can give us the same boost in motivation and drive to make positive changes and we can capitalize on this energy boost at many key moments beyond the New Year:

As we launch into 2023 and everything that’s before us, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by everything we’ll face in the new year, anxious about the leadership challenges ahead, and unsure of how we’ll fit it all in.

The best thing about our Leadership Quest, is that we know that our path to growth as leaders is a process, and everyday we commit to practicing a new habit and implementing a new tool, we are getting stronger and more capable to lead our teams well.

The past year has been an amazing opportunity for all Trinity Health leaders to gather together in one room to celebrate our successes as a team, address difficulties and challenges, and grow into more capable and confident leaders.

We’ve experienced the power of sharing ideas, uniting around a common vision, and working together to innovate and discover a better way.

Monday, December 19th, former NDSU professor, Dr. Ann Burnett, led us through her extensive research on busyness and the effect of the fast pace of life on our well-being and relationships.

Dr. Burnett began her deep-dive into busyness after being struck by the repetitive language in Holiday cards extolling how busy each family had been over the past year.

This Monday, December 19th from 12:00pm – 1:00pm, former NDSU Professor, Dr. Ann Burnett, will lead the Trinity Health team through Transcending Busyness and Navigating the Fast Pace of Life, especially during the holiday season.

With numerous family obligations, work responsibilities, and the transition to the HCMD, our Trinity Health team is no stranger to busyness, but Dr. Burnett will help us reframe our perspective and enter this next season renewed and ready to take on whatever comes next.

As we ramp up to the holiday season, gift giving is top of mind. As leaders, the gift our employees need most from us is the gift of recognition.

Being recognized for our achievements, being noticed, seen, and celebrated is a key driving factor for employee satisfaction, engagement and retention, and, sadly one of the most overlooked and under-utilized tools in our leadership tool belt.

When you’re truly showing up for your work as a leader, you’ll likely find that you simply can’t win everyone over, and that some of the decisions you’ll need to make will be met with resistance, backlash, and criticism.

In Triannual III, we talked about how to overcome resistance to change and help our teams work through objections and concerns about what’s to come. Yet, even with all of the right tools, there will still be critics on the sidelines whose feedback can leave us discouraged and struggling to maintain our motivation to lead.

As we learned in Triannual III, while we scale to the summit, it’s imperative that we set anchors along the way to sustain us on our quest.

One of our most supportive anchors is gratitude—gratitude for all we’ve accomplished along the way, all that we’ve learned that will help us continue to climb to the peak, and all of the common ground we’ve gained with our fellow leaders.

It was great to see you at our third Leadership Quest workshop. It’s so empowering to gather together as a full leadership team to continue building our leadership skills and Making More Possible.

To launch the event, our CEO, Mr. Kutch stressed the importance of being able to see what’s in front of us. Navigating post-pandemic realities in a recession-like environment with numerous changes in the healthcare industry—on top of a system-wide move to a new campus—means we’ve got a bit of a mountain before us to climb in 2023.