The Lead Up Podcast

The Lead Up Podcast

Hosted by: Mike Harbour

You are looking for quick answers and shortcuts. You want better results as a leader. All leaders desire better performance out of themselves and their teams, but you don't have time to waste. The Lead Up Podcast is...

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Episode 506 Turnover Is a Timeline, Not an Event

A resignation hits your inbox from one of your best people. You didn’t see it coming. But was the decision really sudden, or was it only sudden to you? In this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike continues the...
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Episode 505 Preparing Clinical Experts to Lead People, Culture, and Change with Kristen Woods

Clinical expertise can earn someone a seat at the leadership table. But it doesn’t automatically prepare them to lead people, influence peers, navigate change, or shape culture. In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast,...
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Episode 504 The Most Dangerous Number in Healthcare

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour asks a question every healthcare executive should consider: If we're measuring so much, why do we keep getting surprised? Healthcare organizations track...
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Episode 503 How Elite Healthcare Leaders Improve Retention, Culture & Patient Experience with Jennifer Snider & Leilani Scott

  Better healthcare outcomes don’t start with the metric. They start with the leadership behaviors behind it. In this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike Harbour sits down with healthcare executives Jennifer Naran...
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Episode 502 Leading What's Next: Building the Future-Ready Leaders

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour reflects on the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, honoring the lives lost, the families impacted, and the first responders and healthcare professionals...
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Episode 501 The 9 Cultural Contaminants Hospital Executives Can't Ignore

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour takes on something that is quietly costing healthcare organizations good people, stronger performance, and potentially millions of dollars: Cultural...
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Episode 500 - 500 Never Quit Moments: The Behavior Behind the Breakthrough

In this milestone 500th episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour reflects on the lessons, conversations, and never-quit moments that have shaped the show since its beginning in 2019. But this episode isn't...
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Episode 499 The Leadership Strategy Behind Top 10% Patient Satisfaction with Tracey Carson

Great hospital results rarely come from a single initiative. They come from leaders who get clear about what matters, align their teams around those priorities, and then have the discipline to follow through...
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Episode 498 8 Leadership Mistakes Costing You Great People

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour challenges the familiar idea that people quit jobs and argues that, more often than we realize, they’re responding to the leadership environment around...
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Episode 497 Elite Leader Series with Marcy Doderer

Healthcare doesn't need leaders who are simply prepared for today's challenges. It needs leaders who are willing to rethink tomorrow. In this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike Harbour sits down with Marcy Doderer,...
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Episode 496 WIN TODAY with Joshua Lifrak

Pressure doesn't create leaders. It reveals them. Every day, healthcare leaders face situations they didn't choose—staffing shortages, difficult conversations, unexpected setbacks, and decisions that impact patients,...
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Episode 495 Leadership Fails When Human Needs Are Ignored

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour explores why most leadership problems don't begin with poor strategy, but instead with unmet human needs. Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as a foundation and...
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