Leadership Rounds: The Terri Malcolm Blog Archive
Inclusive Leadership: Accepting, Valuing and Welcoming Differences as the Norm
I pulled my car into the parking lot at 7:02 am. I tried to quiet the butterflies in my stomach walking from my car to the hospital, but I was too excited. It was my first day and I was eager to begin.
Why are we tempted to stay on the treadmill of producing and executing?
Why are we tempted to stay on the treadmill of producing and executing?Trainers and mental health professionals agree that staying on a treadmill is a one-way ticket to physical exhaustion and emotional depletion. So why do we continue running, not slowing down to...
CREATE ONE-WORD LEADERSHIP FOCUS TO GUIDE YOU TO YOUR GOALS IN 2021
A few years ago, I ditched the idea of writing New Year’s Resolutions. Why you might ask? Well, the truth is that I rarely kept them. I started the year with boundless enthusiasm
Hi, I’m Terri
Wow! Can you believe it’s the last week of 2020? What a year this has been! Certainly not what anyone would have predicted and not like any other in our lifetime. Because the end of the year is often marked with looking ahead
THE INVISIBLE PRIORITY
Do you ever wish that you could just get away from it all? Do you ever yearn for an island far off in some distant sea? Or perhaps it’s a cabin hidden away on the top of some remote mountain where you could escape from all the Zoom meetings, the…
COPING, COACHING AND THE POWER TO CHANGE
Shakespeare said, “We know what we are, but not what we may be.” Does this describe you? Do you concentrate on your imperfections more than your victories, seldom stopping to think of who you are becoming? Do you repeatedly lean…
The Missing Piece
Pretty much everyone operates their lives relying on varying combinations of seven of the eight essential attributes of being a “whole” human: skills (physical and intellectual) capabilities (mental, physical and psychological) circumstances…
Successful, Fulfilled and High-Performing Teams Are Led With Empathy
We are all doing our best to find a way to effectively manage and successfully adapt during these rapidly changing times. As opposed to reacting, we are planning, responding, and evolving in ways that are more attune to our wide range of emotional signals.
Finding your improv groove means stepping outside the predictability box and leaping into the NOW
I hit the submit button and I thought, “Oh no, what have I done?” I stared at the computer screen, completely frozen, the sound of my heart pounding in my head. I told myself maybe there was a system error and the order didn’t complete.
Recognizing and managing your emotions is a strength for physician leaders who want to thrive
I trained and started clinical practice in an era where the outward expression of negative emotions was viewed as a sign of weakness. Instead of wondering, “What’s wrong?” the assumption was “What’s wrong with her?”