Enhancing Golf Performance: The Role of Restorative Medicine
Golf is a sport that demands precision, focus, and physical prowess. Golfers of all levels constantly seek ways to improve their game, whether through technique refinement, mental training, or physical conditioning. One lesser-known yet highly effective avenue for enhancing golf performance is through the application of restorative medicine techniques.
The Cornerstone of Success: The Importance of Relationships in Business
In the fast-paced and ever-evolving world of business, it’s easy to get caught up in the pursuit of profit margins, market share, and technological advancements. However, amidst the hustle and bustle, one fundamental aspect often gets overlooked — the importance of relationships. Business relationships, whether with customers, suppliers, employees, or partners, are the bedrock upon which successful enterprises are built.
The Importance of Engaging and Empowering Team Members
In today’s dynamic business environment, team engagement and mpowerment have emerged as critical components for organizational success. High-performing companies recognize the immense value of cultivating an atmosphere where every member feels involved, valued, and motivated to contribute.
Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development and Their Application in a Multidisciplinary Healthcare Practice
Multidisciplinary healthcare practices that integrate services from physicians, chiropractors, and other providers are becoming increasingly common as the healthcare sector evolves toward a more holistic approach to patient care. The efficiency and effectiveness of such practices depend heavily on how well their teams function together.
Executive Leadership in the Healthcare Industry
The healthcare industry, with its intricate dynamics, demands effective leadership. Especially in an era of rapid technological advances, regulatory changes, and evolving patient needs, leadership is more critical than ever.
Restorative Medicine and the Medical Integration Model of Chiropractic Care
Restorative medicine, at its core, is about restoring health, vitality, and balance to the body. As the medical world increasingly recognizes the value of holistic, patient-centered approaches, integrative models that encompass a variety of treatment modalities are emerging
Change is a Leader’s Best Friend and Worst Enemy
You may have heard the saying, “the one thing that is constant in life is change.” While this is proverbially and universally true, it has been my experience that most people are reluctant to change. While there is nothing inherently wrong with staying on a particular course.
Public Transit as a Public Service
In the South Carolina Lowcountry, just as many communities around the country, public transit has proven to be a necessary service, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. Essential workers have continued to utilize public transit during their daily commute, ensuring our healthcare and economic systems continue to operate.
Measuring Organizational Success in Nonprofits
The ways to measure success in a for-profit business are fairly well established and time-tested. Economic metrics such as profit and loss, cash flow, and customer satisfaction are commonplace in even the smallest operations. The measurements are simple because the focus is simple: Have more money coming in than you have going out.
Worth’s Cities 2019 Summit: Key Takeaways for Equitable Community Development
Last week I had the privilege of attending Worth’s Cities 2019: Journeys to Urban Excellence summit, here in Savannah. The meeting was an interactive economic development and thought leadership conference that showcased strategies for fostering inclusive growth, downtown development, and global investment.
Defining Poverty: More Than Just Money
This post is the first in an ongoing series, “Moving the Needle on Poverty” that examines the nature of and potential solutions to poverty in the urban context of Greater Savannah, GA.
Building Trust in Local Government
Trust in government action is an integral part of American government, particularly at the local level. Our country was founded on the idea that all governmental powers come from “the consent of the governed” and any amount of consent requires a level of trust.
Effective Relational Leadership
According to the United States Marine Corps, leadership is defined as “the art of influencing others in such a manner to accomplish the mission.” This definition of leadership was expounded upon by General John Lejeune, the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Setting Expectations as a Leader
This truth is fleshed out in the fact that studies have repeatedly shown that employees often cite communication issues with their manager as one of the top reasons for workplace dissatisfaction. Very often, leaders make the dangerously incorrect assumption that their employees have the same understanding of what needs to be done, how it needs to be done.
Combating Negativity in the Workplace
Negativity is a cancer that will impact all aspects of an organization, from day-to-day operations to the organizations ability to recruit and retain quality employees. Like a cancer, left unchecked, it will spread throughout the organization.
Leading the Team: Moving from Peer to Supervisor
Any organization must make good use of small teams to effectively and efficiently achieve their organizational goals. This is equally true across the board, in ANY and EVERY organization. These teams go by different names in various contexts: squad or fire team in the military, engine company in the fire service, or project team in business.
Vision, Mission, and Values Statements in Organizational Management
I think we can all agree on the importance of planning. Good plans are what help move us from where we are toward where we want to be. Planning often means making changes and change is always a difficult process that requires time and buy-in from all members of the organization.
The Rising Tide
The phrase is commonly attributed to President John F Kennedy, who used it during a 1963 speech to defend a public works project that he was launching in Arkansas against criticisms that the project would only benefit a select few. President Kennedy went on to elaborate his point, saying “as Arkansas becomes more prosperous so does the United States and as this section declines so does the United States.
Three Hard Lessons for New Team Leaders
I have spent time leading teams in various contexts for most of my life and I have learned that there are some principles that cross all contextual lines. Regardless if you are leading in sports, business, government, church, or wherever.
Tearing Down Walls by Building Up Relationships
There have been some strong words lately about the great need for change in our country and who’s fault it is we are struggling. From the recent events in Charlottesville, VA it has become apparent that a large group of (white) believe that people of color, especially immigrants, are the cause of the woes that they face in their lives.