Season 4 of the podcast we are featuring our leaders from our dialysis centers—our beloved Facility Administrators! This week we hear from a group of FAs, sharing stories on when they have seen WE CARE, our caring behaviors, come to life. Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. SUBMIT YOUR LISTENER MAIL! Share your leadership advice here . HOSTED BY: Grace Berman, Senior ...
Jun 05, 2019•Season 4Ep. 12
Our episode this week focuses on working smart—in particular, getting the right stuff done (commonly known in the Village as “GSD” or “GRSD”). We are joined by special guest, Maggie Anderson, Senior Vice President here at DaVita. Maggie walks us through some of her best practices—calendaring, “helicopter”ing to help explain delegated tasks and overall prioritizing. “One tip I think helps is to always be asking for feedback. Ask how you are doing and how you can adjust. ” GUESTS: Maggie Anderson,...
May 28, 2019•Season 4Ep. 19
Season 4 of the podcast we are featuring our leaders from our dialysis centers—our beloved Facility Administrators! This week we hear from Dana Dickerson, Assistant Facility Administrator at a clinic in Arnold, MO. Dana’s tip is that a leader should always lead by example. “Take a good look in the mirror. What do you think they see when they see you?” Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our...
May 22, 2019
This week we discuss the important topic of Leading Diversity and Belonging with our Chief People Officer, Eric Severson. Just like food, water, shelter and safety, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs shows belonging is a fundamental human need and desire. Eric walks us through some examples of times when he felt like he didn’t belong. “We are a community first and a company second. Part of being a community, is creating a place where everyone feels like they belong.” GUESTS: Eric Severson, Chief People...
May 15, 2019•Season 4Ep. 18
Season 4 of the podcast we are featuring our leaders from our dialysis centers—our beloved Facility Administrators! This week we hear from Kerri Green, Facility Administrator out of Sacramento, CA. Kerri’s tip she learned from a fellow FA in her region: “In life things don’t always go your way. Great things in life sometimes come out of the biggest disappointments.” Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way t...
May 08, 2019
We kick off Season 4 with a WE CARE mindset. We hear from 3 teammates—Damon Kinton, a Group Regional Operations Director leading 3 regions in central California, Grady Dodson, a Facility Administrator in leading our clinic in Visalia Vineyard, CA, and Karen Campbell, a Facility Administrator leading our Herndon Dialysis clinic Fresno, CA. WE CARE is our standard of excellence with patient care. Grady shares he believes it all starts with the first welcome. He has an example of how his clinic’s A...
May 01, 2019•Season 4Ep. 17
Seth Miller, Vice President for Pacific Gold Division, shares his journey around creating a vision and how this impacted his team and his life as a whole. After years always saying “yes” at work, he was finding himself overwhelmed, stressed and not being his best self. He attended DVU’s DaVita Way of Leading program, and set a vision for himself and those he serves and leads—and that has made all the difference he says. GUEST: Seth Miller, Vice President- Pacific Gold Division, Polaris HOSTED BY...
Mar 26, 2019•Season 3Ep. 16
This week we listen to Anne Bailey, Group Vice President for Patient Support and Insurance, as she talks about her insights and experiences in leading with heart. Some of Anne’s tips include making it a practice to connect individually & opening up a meeting with a “high-gain” question that allows teammates to speak from a place of vulnerability. For example: “When was the last time you saw the Village come alive?” Anne says “Leading with heart is that reason to get out of bed and come in on...
Mar 20, 2019•Season 3Ep. 15
This week we hear from Jim Greenwood, Vice President of Wisdom, on how to live out our core value of fun! Jim shares some of his fun stories from his 23 years with the Village. In his words, “People remember how you make them feel most of all…and laughter elicits that positive environment.” GUEST: Jim Greenwood, Vice President, Wisdom HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller SUBMIT YOUR LISTENER MAIL! Share your leadership advice here . For DaVita teammates, please visit podcast.davitaway.com to ...
Mar 12, 2019•Season 3Ep. 14
In this episode, we hear from Misha Palecek, our Chief Development Officer, on an important core value—Accountability. He explains what it means to have accountability and the true art it is to put it into practice. GUEST: Misha Palecek, Chief Development Officer HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller SUBMIT YOUR LISTENER MAIL! Share your leadership advice here . For DaVita teammates, please visit podcast.davitaway.com to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. ...
Mar 06, 2019•Season 3Ep. 13
Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. This week we hear from Diana Giesler, Hospital Services Administrator leading two clinical teams in Illinois for Team Apex. She discusses her experience with transitioning from a peer to a manager. Her advice—acknowledge it up front and share the “why” with your team. SUBMIT YOUR LISTENER MAIL! Share your leadership advice here . HO...
Feb 27, 2019
Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. This week we hear from Michael Laird, People Services Training Manager. He discusses one of his favorite philosophies of leadership from General Stanley McChrystal— the three L’s: Listen, Learn, then Lead. Below is a link to the Ted Talk Michael mentions. Listen, learn… then lead- Stanley McChrystal TedTalk SUBMIT YOUR LISTENER MAIL...
Feb 20, 2019
Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. This week we hear from Brian Cartinella, Onboarding Program Manager for Dream Team, Polaris and Galaxy. When considering the leadership conversation, he gives the simple guidance of "Don't over-complicate it." Brian says our mission marks the the point of True North on the leadership compass. SUBMIT YOUR LISTENER MAIL! Share your le...
Feb 13, 2019
Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. This week our tip comes from Michelle Brenczewski, Program Development Manager for Skyline in Team Fusion. When stepping into new roles through her time in the Village, she has learned the importance of self-awareness, and more importantly self-forgiveness. Michelle says don’t be afraid to throw your hat in the ring! SUBMIT YOUR LIS...
Feb 06, 2019
Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. This week we hear from Will Orellana, Facility Administrator in Dream Team. Will shares with us about how important it is to create space for our teammates and our patients to heal. SUBMIT YOUR LISTENER MAIL! Share your leadership advice here . HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller For DaVita teammates, please visit podcast.davita...
Jan 30, 2019
Tune in to hear Doug Vlchek—known around the Village as the beloved YODA—impart his “final” words of wisdom (before his retirement) on How to Lead the DaVita Way. Yoda is an original citizen of our DaVita Village, and helped build and lead the Wisdom team as VP/Chief Wisdom Officer until 2006. In this episode, Yoda suggests finding your one thing that connects your heart, and spreads the DaVita Way. He suggests many simple ways to tap into the DaVita Way such as a call and response (e.g. One for...
Jan 23, 2019•Season 3Ep. 12
Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. This week we hear from Erin Hostetler, Assistant General Counsel—Operations in Team Music City. Erin shares her appreciation for leaders who practice setting a positive tone, and shift the view of negative situations as opportunities to find strength. She is always searching for the silver lining! “You can’t control everything. But ...
Jan 16, 2019
We kick off the new year and a new season of the podcast with the topic of mindfulness. Rob Byrd, Director in Corporate Compliance and Stephannie Kelley, Executive Assistant in Team Quest join us to discuss bringing mindfulness into your leadership. Stephannie and Rob engage us in a rich conversation, providing tips in their many years of practicing mindfulness tactics. Below are some further resources. · Mindfulness Edge Podcast - Matt Tenney interviews Janice L. Marturano: How to be an Inspiri...
Jan 08, 2019•Season 2Ep. 11
We are joined this week by Louis Efron, VP of Teammate Experience and globally recognized thought leader, speaker, and writer. Louis takes us into our heart space by discussing the importance of his favorite core value—Fulfillment. He discusses what it looks like to lead with fulfillment, and how it all starts with gratitude. GUEST: Louis Efron, Vice President of Teammate Experience HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller SUBMIT YOUR LISTENER MAIL! Share your leadership advice here . For DaVita ...
Dec 19, 2018•Season 2Ep. 10
Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. This week we hear from Melissa Hrdlicka, RN Clinical Coordinator & Star Educator from Wisconsin, about her tips to show your team you support them. “The greatest leaders aren’t necessarily the ones who do the greatest things. They inspire others to do the greatest things.” SUBMIT YOUR LISTENER MAIL! Share your leadership advice ...
Dec 14, 2018
Treavce Whitmore, Group Facility Administrator in Team Virginias joins us this week to discuss the important question “Is a management position right for me?” She takes us through her personal story of what her path to management looked like. Treavce shares her guidance around not just hearing what it’s like to be in a management role, but shadowing to experience it for yourself. GUEST: Treavce Whitmore, Group Facility Administrator, Team Virginias HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller SUBMIT ...
Dec 05, 2018•Season 2Ep. 9
Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. This week, Geoff Burgess, Director with our Insurance Management team, discusses his one-page “operating manual”—a way he shares with his team who he is, his leadership philosophies, and more. Here is a link to Geoff’s operating manual. Like the quote from Geoff’s clip? Here it is again: “Vulnerability sounds like truth, and feels l...
Nov 27, 2018
Continuing on the topic of feedback—this week we are joined by Ray Follett, a Group Vice President supporting Kidney Care Operations. He takes us through his journey of mastering the art of asking for feedback. Most importantly, how to effectively receive it. Early in Ray’s career, he was unclear on what he was doing wrong when he was faced with some tough feedback in the workplace. After that, he made it a point to actively ask for feedback so he could truly improve. Ray walks us through his be...
Nov 20, 2018•Season 2Ep. 8
Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. This week, Megan Weis, Director for the Justice League of DaVita, shares a great tip about “celebrating the small stuff”. Share your leadership advice here ! HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller For DaVita teammates, please visit podcast.davitaway.com to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Sha...
Nov 13, 2018
We are joined by VP of Clinical Services, Maribeth Sommer, to discuss tips on how to effectively give feedback. Maribeth shares her experiences on the long road towards becoming successful in providing the gift of feedback—both positive and constructive. This episode delves into the courage and finesse it takes to build yourself as a valued source of feedback. Maribeth gives a great starter tip: to start small with finding someone you need to give feedback to. Be thoughtful, look at your timing,...
Nov 07, 2018•Season 2Ep. 7
DaVita Group Vice President for Team Endeavor and DaVita Labs, Kenny Gardner, joins us to discuss the topic of overcoming breakdowns in relationships. Kenny shares times when he experienced breakdowns in relationships and how he started the process of mending them. He offers two insightful tips on where he started. First, he gave himself the time and space to self-assess his own thoughts and feelings about the relationship and why he was experiencing them. Second, he clarified his own intentions...
Oct 16, 2018•Season 1Ep. 6
DaVita Vice President of People Services Operations, Debbie Wolfe, joins us to talk about the secret to building a great team. Debbie shares her definition of a great team and an example of when she led a great team. She shares the specific actions she took and the insights she gained in her 30-year DaVita journey from nurse to vice president. GUEST: Debbie Wolfe, VP in People Services Operations HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller For DaVita teammates, please visit DaVitaWay.com and click o...
Oct 09, 2018•Season 1Ep. 5
We have two guests from DaVita’s great Denver area on the show this week, Cole Casey, a Group Facility Administrator, and Jen Ertelt, a Facility Administrator and Home Program Manager. They share specific, practical tips on how to create more energy in your day, so you feel like you have more time. They talk about scheduling with intentionality and share four actions that helped them personally: Schedule self-care time and truly unplug Make a list of things that energize and deplete you Set boun...
Oct 02, 2018•Season 1Ep. 4
This week we are joined by Amy Young, General Manager for DaVita Clinical Research, to discuss the concept of life alignment and balance.She shares her strategies on how to stay aligned with work that is meaningful and a life that is energized. GUEST: Amy Young, General Manager for DaVita Clinical Research HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller For DaVita teammates, please visit DaVitaWay.com and click on Podcast to learn more our hosts and guests. Please also share your feedback through the po...
Sep 25, 2018•Season 1Ep. 3
DaVita Vice President of Internal Audit and Special Projects, Rebecca Griggs, joins us to discuss her experiences in leading without direct authority. She shares her strategies on how to lead through influence and the lessons she had to learn along the way. For DaVita teammates, please visit DaVitaWay.com and click on Podcast to learn more our hosts and guests. Please also share your feedback through the podcast website!
Sep 18, 2018•Season 1Ep. 2
