Effective, Efficient, Compassionate, Necessary Endings

Healthcare Leadership

with Dan Nielsen dan@americashealthcareleaders.com

 

 

When asked to list qualities and characteristics of excellent leaders, few people list the ability to execute necessary endings. Yet effective, efficient, compassionate execution of necessary endings, many of which are very difficult for everyone concerned, is a hallmark of excellent leaders.

 

Many of our greatest personal, professional, and organizational opportunities lie just beyond effective, efficient, compassionate execution of necessary endings.

 

Take a moment to reflect on your greatest and most rewarding personal, professional, and organizational achievements and successes. I would bet good money that many of your most important achievements and successes occurred after, and in many cases, as a result of a difficult but necessary ending.

 

So why not plan and execute more of these necessary endings? For most people and most leaders, there are literally scores of necessary endings waiting to be appropriately handled in virtually every area of life. So easy to procrastinate and avoid because most endings are very difficult. But the rewards—sometimes the astounding rewards—in almost all cases for everyone concerned, are freedom and great opportunity to focus on new personal, professional, and organizational priorities and relationships.

 

When people assess your leadership and life, do they admire, appreciate, and respect your ability to execute effective, efficient, compassionate, necessary endings? This is a great topic for a leadership team discussion. There are very few topics more universally applicable and important.

 

Are you modeling, teaching, coaching, and living the crucial leadership quality and characteristic of executing effective, efficient, compassionate, necessary endings?

 

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