Welcome to the leadership lounge, for all who work or lead in healthcare. Where you get a fresh take on your work as a healthcare leader.

It’s a place to pause, think, and reflect, leaving you refreshed, and inspired. You’ll feel encouraged and able to keep going.

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Latest Episodes

Does your leadership have a season?
Katie Quinney Katie Quinney

Does your leadership have a season?

As with nature, we all have seasons of energy. We can’t be in full summer mode all year long. Noticing the value in the different seasons, we look at the ebb and flow of energy and how this matches with being a leader and leading others.

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How are you defining success?
Katie Quinney Katie Quinney

How are you defining success?

While you are head down and getting through each day, week or moment in the mix that is healthcare right now it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. Pausing to consider what success looks like means you’ll be able to focus on the things that matter. 


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Stronger together: relationships are the remedy.
Katie Quinney Katie Quinney

Stronger together: relationships are the remedy.

Tentatively contributing my ideas to the very public conversation about healthcare. What I think are two of the elephants that we need to talk about. Why the political nature of healthcare isn't helping us do what we need to do and why the medical profession has such a strong needs to be part of the conversation.

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Clear is kind: the feedback sandwich isn’t.
Katie Quinney Katie Quinney

Clear is kind: the feedback sandwich isn’t.

Getting caught up in a fabulous documentary I couldn’t help but notice they way they gave feedback. It was neither clear nor direct, and was painful. 

They did care personally and this is one aspect of the Radical Candor model - the other part is to challenge directly. What was happening in the show reminded me of the feedback sandwich - a tool - that admittedly 30 years ago was being taught and used as a way to give feedback. 

This episode leans heavily on the work of Kim Scott and the team at Radical Candor. Links to the places I’ve specifically quoted from and used to build this episode are all below. 

So we cover:-

  • The 6 reasons why the feedback sandwich doesn’t work. 

  • What to do instead and what this can look like in practice.

  • Share the value of sitting with the discomfort of critical feedback. 

  • Why appreciative feedback is part of this equation. 

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