Quint Studer
Healthcare Executive teaches how to multiply your team’s creativity
Corporate Competitor Podcast Episode 56
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When Quint Studer speaks, count on his pearly whites dazzling. His leadership model is that he wants everyone he works with to speak directly to him. “If I have spinach in my teeth, I want my team to tell me,” Studer said, flashing a smile and sharing an example. “That’s the kind of relationship I want to have with my team.”
That leadership style has allowed Studer to serve as President of Baptist Hospital in Florida and found several businesses serving his two passions: healthcare excellence and strong communities. A children’s hospital now bears his name and hundreds of thousands have read his books on leadership and business operations.
He even brought minor league baseball to Pensacola and now co-owns the team with Two-time Masters Champion Bubba Watson. If anybody has a right to think of himself as a local hero, one who believes his own press clippings, then surely it is Studer. But he does not. Studer says that self-awareness and teachability aren’t ends in themselves but rather “help us turn obstacles into opportunities and promote creativity.”
Do you want your internal team to come up with genius ideas? Listen for six practices you can try to help your team hit it out of the park. Have a listen to a master conversationalist and business leader.
You will learn:
- 3:00 Baseball’s impact on Quint’s life.
- 13:00 How to bookend feedback with support.
- 20:00 The six do’s and don’ts for optimizing creativity and problem-solving on your team
- 29:00 How to turn down somebody’s idea without turning down the person.
- 32:00 How to replace a culture of “no” with a culture of “yes.”
- 33:30 When to credit your team with a great idea (even if you had it first).
- 35:00 Why perfectionism “kills” innovation.
- 37:00 Bubba Watson’s partnership with Quint and the Blue Wahoo baseball team.
You will learn:
- 6:00 How easy it is to cut corners in practice and why you’ll suffer as a result.
- 8:00 How to emphasize the power or “we” on your team.
- 11:00 How living and working in Japan in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster taught Lane that caring was the universal language of respected leaders.
- 15:00 The level of employee interaction required to achieve success.
- 18:30 The difference between being accountable and responsible.
- 27:00 How to identify a meaningful friend or mentor.
Resources:
- Quint’s book “The Busy Leader’s Handbook” is all about getting the fundamentals right. Learn how to do the little things that make postivie difference in the life of employees, customers, and other stakeholders.
- Follow Quint Studer on Twitter.
- Check out the viral Pensacola Blue Wahoos Stadium Airbnb.
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