Elaina Davis is the Chief Community Officer in her new role (at the time of this recording) at a senior living consulting firm, primarily serving the Richmond, VA market.

In this special episode of Level Up Leadership Podcast, I had the opportunity to get into the coach's seat with Elaina in the learner's seat.

We reflected on Elaina's learning journey of where and how she learned the skills to equip her to lead others today. More simply, how we do acquire the skills to make the transition from an individual performer into a leader of others who perform?

Few organizations have formal or informal coaching structures to teach, mentor, and grow people beyond a "supervisory" or "task completion" de facto management relationship.

In this episode, Elaina and I dug into areas such as:

• Evaluating one's own strengths
• Having the right environment that is conducive to your learning and development
• An insight that our weaknesses are actually our strengths overdone
• The concept of aligning strengths to job responsibilities and outsourcing or delegating those responsibilities we're not well suited to execute
• The value of focusing on strengths more than we focus on our weaknesses

We delved into many universal themes of self-growth and strengths and weaknesses, and we hope that you take your own nuggets of wisdom away from our conversation together.

"No founder has it all." Christie Stukenholtz, the co-founder and CEO Senior Care Finder, is mindful of how critical it is for any organization - but especially an entrepreneurial endeavor - to assemble an All Star caliber team.

From her extensive experiences in a professional HR Consulting company to talent management, market research and now the co-founder of a growing business in aging services, Christie has had a lot of different looks at forming high-performing teams.

Christie shared so many insightful perspectives, approaches, and mindset in how she works to put together great teams. From "hiring the empty seat" to "creating an environment where people will stick around when times get hard" and "finding a team where you find belonging" we covered a lot together.

Connect with Christie in any way you'd like to engage with her or Senior Care Finder.

Website: www.SeniorCareFinder.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FindTheBestSeniorCare

LinkedIn (business): https://www.linkedin.com/company/senior-care-finder/

LinkedIn (personal): https://www.linkedin.com/in/cstukenholtz/

Instagram: @seniorcarefinder

Twitter: @SrCareFinder

Michael Emery's career spans a wide range of healthcare roles starting from ICU nursing, to advanced nurse practice, senior operations roles, and now serves as the Executive Vice President of Senior Living for Curana Health. He is also one of my most memorable classmates from the University of Texas' Executive MBA program at the McCombs School of Business.

On our episode, we spoke about what it is like to learn and lead in healthcare organizations. The conversation delved into what organizations like Curana Health actually do (concierge healthcare), the interrelated work of healthcare and senior living, the GUIDE Model by CMS, what Value Based Care means, why we chose to continue our education at McCombs (an MBA vs. MHA), the role of mentorship in growing leaders, and so much more.

Michael Emery's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-emery/
Curana Health: https://curanahealth.com/

James Lee's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seniorlivingguy/
Bella Groves: https://www.bellagroves.com/

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