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"NHA stand-up is a great resource for current NHA’s or anyone interested in Long Term Care and leadership training. Being an NHA can be a isolating experience. So it’s nice to hear thoughts and ideas from other industry members who are going through the same things as I am."
“Everything Justin puts out is practical and tactical. No fluff. Just incredibly useful advice that you can read and take action on immediately. One of only a few newsletters I read weekly.”
"NHA Stand-Up is no fluff and easily implementable for NHAs and leaders. I learn something new and beneficial every week."
"Kevin has his finger on the pulse of everything relevant to the senior living and nursing home industry. I find his NHA Stand Up content thought-provoking, and recommend that all leaders in our field subscribe!"
Previous Issues of NHA Stand-Up
- 1 Feel anxious when your regional comes to visit?
- 2 A letter to a new NHA
- 3 The Truth: You Suck at Onboarding
- 4 Self- Leadership Check-In
- 5 Elevate your communities first impression
- 6 The gap standing in the way of your 2025 goals
- 7 Tactical vs Relational
- 8 Fun and Easy Tactic to Improve Team Attendance
- 9 Two processes that would benefit from your attention
- 10 People Do Well If They Can
- 11 Six questions to get the most out of 2025
- 12 CMS Survey Data- Full Access
- 13 Get input and alignment in 10 minutes
- 14 Coaching is hard. But it's your most important job.
- 15 Swallow your fear. Give the feedback.
- 16 Prioritize: The 2x2 Framework
- 17 Did you see the raise guide?
- 18 Turning Pro- An NHAs Journey to Excellence
- 19 Inspire instead of motivate
- 20 Hanlon's Razor- A Leadership Lesson
- 21 Find the Disconnect From Decision To Front Line Impact
- 22 Stay in Your Circle of Confidence
- 23 What Type of Work Will Solve the Problem?
- 24 Great Leaders Use More ?
- 25 What to look for in great candidates
- 26 Meetings That Move Your Team Forward
- 27 How many shifts do you truly need to fill?
- 28 A Phone Call or Two You Should Make Today
- 29 Persistence Wins
- 30 An NHAs Journey from Amateur to Pro
- 31 6:1 Feedback Ratio
- 32 Don’t be the Easy Button
- 33 Master the Art of Delegation
- 34 Executive Presence
- 35 Remembering Why You’re Here
- 36 Sometimes we just need to listen
- 37 Your Actions Through a New Lens
- 38 March Elopement Drill Scenario
- 39 We failed. How do we learn as a team?
- 40 Our AI chatbot is trained on all 900+ pages of CMS regulations
- 41 Reducing Elopement Risk- The Final Week.
- 42 Using tech to support the funneling approach- Reducing Elopement Risk
- 43 Preventing Elopements- Week 5.
- 44 It's the time of year for feedback.
- 45 Prevent a Resident Elopement. - Week 4.
- 46 A sense of urgency will set you apart.
- 47 Resident Elopements- Where are your gaps?
- 48 Resident Elopements- A culture of safety. Drills, Drills, and more Drills
- 49 How to professionally confront someone at work.
- 50 Rethinking who your most valuable employees are
- 51 Resident Elopements- A culture of preparedness and response.
- 52 Attack 2024 with tenacity
- 53 Easy, implementable, and fast daily tactics to show and feel gratitude.
- 54 Holiday's = Strong Emotions. Remember these basics
- 55 Rethinking the Open Door Policy
- 56 Empathy > Perspective
- 57 Accountability should be your theme for 2024
- 58 Build trust first. Provide feedback later.
- 59 Show gratitude to your team today. Follow these 5 tactics.
- 60 The importance of learning to say "no."
- 61 The Scout Mindset- Understand and Implement
- 62 The Equation of Trust
- 63 Let's Discuss all Things Salary Negotiation
- 64 Micromanagement Done Right
- 65 Use AI to prioritize your to-do list
- 66 Understanding what a Pyrrhic Victory is
- 67 Top industry articles and news you should know about
- 68 Elevate your EQ
- 69 Non-conventional measurements of community success
- 70 Onboarding residents- Lessons learned from our workforce.
- 71 Want to drive engagement? Focus on this winning formula.
- 72 Use AI to write your POC
- 73 I screwed up. Now what? 😕
- 74 Inversion Thinking: The simplest secret weapon.
- 75 My top 14 questions to gauge leadership during an interview.
- 76 The Power of Perspective. 💡
- 77 I sat down with the enemy part 2 🤫
- 78 I sat down with the enemy
- 79 "Corporate" relationships causing stress? 😕
- 80 Struggling to provide constructive feedback? 😬
- 81 Leverage ChatGPT to improve your QAPI plans
- 82 Improve your public speaking skills
- 83 10k hours gets you to "expert" level but 20 hours gets you to "really good"
- 84 Five signs of a great regional
- 85 Find your Captaincy
- 86 We pick the brain of a federal surveyor
- 87 In a rut? Follow these three steps
- 88 Leverage ChatGPT to be a better NHA?
- 89 NHA salaries are rising.
- 90 Don't wait to create your own development plan
- 91 Tell me you're an NHA without telling me you're an NHA.
- 92 This weeks gratitude challenge
- 93 How do you handle the tardy high performer that you can't afford to lose?
- 94 Create your own luck
- 95 Breaking News: Inappropriate antipsychotics will now drop you to one star in QMs
- 96 This week's Gratitude Challenge
- 97 The power of five minutes per day
- 98 Its employee evaluation time📝
- 99 Gratitude Challenge
- 100 Evaluations turned inward
- 101 Family communication is the secret ingredient
- 102 The ultimate feedback loop
- 103 Holiday season gratitude challenge
- 104 Simple steps to elevate your meal experience
- 105 Leaders must be great observers
- 106 I'll take a great boss over a great leader any day
- 107 This weeks gratitude challenge
- 108 Books recs for senior living leaders continued
- 109 My top book recs for senior living leaders
- 110 What's your best advice for an AIT hopeful?
- 111 When to hold on vs. when to let go
- 112 This week's gratitude challenge
- 113 5 magic questions to ask your team
- 114 Three questions to help problem solve
- 115 Using the 80/20 Principle to improve family satisfaction
- 116 You're 90 days out from annual evals
- 117 Gratitude Challenge
- 118 A fun and easy way to celebrate the teams accomplishments
- 119 How to be an NHA and actually take a real vacation
- 120 Improve your post-fall huddles
- 121 A new leader tells you...
- 122 Get out of the building
- 123 Part 3- Providing flexibility to your teams
- 124 The OODA Loop
- 125 We hit send too soon! Please utilize this version of the newsletter.
- 126 A Framework for implementing self-scheduling
- 127 So your teams want "flexibility." What do you do?
- 128 A decision making model to visualize the cost of inaction
- 129 learn from over 150 years of senior living experience
- 130 3.75 Free CEUs for our Subscribers
- 131 3.75 Free CEUs for our Subscribers
- 132 The three cultures you find in SNF and senior living
- 133 3.75 Free CEUs for our Subscribers
- 134 7 common sense tactics to help with recruitment
- 135 Four strategies I learned the hard way
- 136 Not having the answer is a good thing
- 137 Delivering what's expected every time
- 138 Once you understand the 80/20 rule, you see it everywhere in senior living.
- 139 Are you leading the community with the right focus?
- 140 Part 2/5 of achieving work-life balance in senior living
- 141 My system for eliminating the 50+ hour work weeks in senior living
- 142 Influential Leadership
- 143 The hiring metrics your team should be reporting out on a daily basis
- 144 A daily routine to make senior living leadership a sustainable career
- 145 Am I being the best NHA or ED that I can be?
- 146 Give us another shot?
- 147 Save your team from meeting overload
- 148 Default to action
- 149 Learn why senior living employees bail after 100 days
- 150 Your employees are most likely to leave in the first 100 days
- 151 Resources to help you bring your best self to your residents and teams
- 152 Action you can take today to reduce burnout
- 153 We sit down with a rising star
- 154 Execute Efficiently and with less time
- 155 Thank you Administrators, still time to win free CEU courses
- 156 Top tips for succeeding as a senior living leader
- 157 Connect through empathy and free CEU's
- 158 One year worth of free CEU's for you and your colleagues
- 159 How to be a better interviewer
- 160 Make gratitude part of your culture in 5 minutes
- 161 A servant leadership idea you can implement immediately
- 162 Have some spontaneous fun during your next stand-up or team meeting
- 163 Two FREE NAB CEU's inside
- 164 It's ok to make a mistake
- 165 A new era of advertising to SNF and senior living
- 166 Dealing with our emotions during another COVID wave
- 167 Create your own rules
- 168 Thankful for our readers
- 169 From operator to tech founder. The art of brainstorming.
- 170 Influence decisions when you're not the decision maker
- 171 Influence change when you're not the decision maker
- 172 Collect authentic feedback
- 173 Candid interview with a surveyor
- 174 What first impression is your community delivering?
- 175 Tactic for improving communication
- 176 Actionable insights for NHA's and a free NAB approved CEU
- 177 We noticed you didn't take advantage of the free CEU
- 178 Free NAB Approved CEU for NHA Stand-Up Readers!
- 179 A few things that will add value to your day and how to ask for a raise.
- 180 Productivity for NHA's
- 181 Productivity for NHA's
- 182 The 80/20 rule in the life of an NHA
- 183 A time to reflect
- 184 Insights for NHA's
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