Am I Doing my Best?

As a leader at Covenant Health, we’ve committed to doing everything with excellence. While it can be easy to evaluate our work tasks and outcomes, our softer skills can be a little harder to evaluate. But more than often, it’s these skills that are most impactful to team engagement. Here’s a quick reflection –   

Preface each question below with “Am I doing my BEST to…”

• Welcome my new team members?
• Get to know my team members – personal preferences, who makes up their family, what they love to do, what they are good at?
• Set clear expectations for attitudes, behaviors, and processes using the “tell, show, do, review” model?
• Work elbow to elbow with my new team member until they have a solid foundation and knowledge of what success looks like?
• Ensure my team members have what they need to be successful?
• Listen to the ideas of my team members and let them lead the way in making improvements?
• Create a positive environment?
• Build bridges and collaborate with other departments?
• Stay in tune with team members to know when I need to help more and when I need to let them be?
• Develop team members that I envision succeeding me or other leaders on our team?
• Partner newer team members with experienced team members, creating a mentoring structure for the team?
• Regularly seek feedback on how I’m leading and what I could improve on?

Make a special effort this week to focus on 1-2 areas. Map out a plan for weaving these leadership behaviors into your daily routine and interactions with your team members.

–Kelly Floyd, Organizational Development & Training Manager

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