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Leadership

How to Handle a Bad Google Review

Our clinic recently received a terrible review on Google. I had just gotten settled on a plane, when I opened Google to check our reviews, and there it was. I instinctively took a cue from an experience I had with Amazon in the past. I took the complaint seriously and addressed it swiftly, without excuses. […]

Leadership

Leadership Happens One-on-One

Often, our image of powerful leadership is that of celebrated figures like Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, or Billy Graham, standing in front of throngs of adoring followers, inspiring them to march forward. But great oratory never made a great leader, a person that people actually want to follow (not have to). Great leadership always […]

Leadership

Great Leaders Know This Word: Together

Together.?When leaders embrace the ethos of this powerful word, they position their team for greatness.? Wise leaders?bring others with them and?genuinely believe that working?together, alongside others?is the only way to greatness. They don’t position themselves?above everyone else, like some medieval king, issuing orders and judgments from their high throne. True leaders desire to scale mountains […]

Leadership

Second Anniversary & Update

We are celebrating our second anniversary! Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your leadership journey for the last two years. On September 9th, 2012 I published my first Aspire blog post, which I wrote while I was traveling to Manhattan. Leading up to that first post, the website had been ready […]

Personal Development

The (Not So) Secret Ingredient to Thriving Relationships

Excellent leadership. Flourishing families. Enviable marriages. Thriving organizations. Effective teams. They all have one factor in common: healthy relationships. We ache when we have bad ones. We celebrate when we have good ones. So how do we keep them healthy? The (not so) secret ingredient to any relationship in your life is: time. To destroy […]

Leadership

Leadership Lesson from a Sandcastle

I never knew you could take lessons to build sandcastles. But that?s exactly what I participated in on a recent family trip to South Padre Island. As I listened to the amiable Australian instructor relay sandcastle building techniques, one of them stood out. You build a castle from the top down. Always. My seven nieces […]

Productivity

How I Learned to Get Over Myself and Just Delegate

[blockquote text=’This is a guest post written by Andria Bicknell. Andria is a contributing writer and editor for Aspire. She writes about recovering from the effects of perfectionism on her own blog,?Type A Plans B. Andria draws her leadership experience from ministry, business and home. – Wes Saade, M.D.’ text_color=’#ffffff’ width=’95’ line_height=’undefined’ background_color=’#aaaaaa’ border_color=’#dba400′ show_quote_icon=’no’ […]

Leadership

Three Questions You Must Regularly Ask Your People

When I started in leadership the main question I was ever truly interested in knowing from my people was, “What are you doing?” I wanted to know exactly what they were doing. Were they doing what I asked them to do??Were they being productive? Were they wasting time? Now, I ask other questions. “What are […]

Leadership

Leadership in a Nutshell: Four Fundamentals

At the heart of an effective leadership model, you will find four key components. If you excel at each of them, you will succeed. It’s that simple. Allow me to give them to you and challenge you to ask yourself today how you are doing on each.? The Leader: Focus on Personal Growth The leader […]

Leadership

Six Indicators of a Healthy Team

You want to have an awesome team, right? Me, too! When patients come into my clinic for a physical exam, I use specific criteria to see how healthy they are. Their weight, blood pressure, heart rate, and certain blood test parameters have to be within a particular range. Healing and forward progress from a physical […]