Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter
The Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter offers concise, actionable leadership strategies for healthcare professionals. Delivered weekly, each issue features a short video, motivational insights, and expert resources, empowering you to enhance your leadership skills efficiently and effectively.
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Leading Through Tension: How Psychological Safety is Built
Psychological safety is not built in moments of ease. It is revealed, and reinforced, in moments of tension.
The week before last, I arrived a little early to a rural critical access hospital in the Midwest for a quarterly leadership development session.
As I walked into the room, the grou...
Apr 15, 2026
conflict
culture
healthcareleadership
leadership
performance
physicianleadership
psychologicalsafety
tension
trust
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The Unspoken Side of Grief: What We Get Wrong, and How to Show Up Better.
Grief is one of the few experiences in life that is both universal and inevitable. And yet, for something we will all encounter, either personally or through those we care about, it remains widely misunderstood.
In this week’s episode of the Growth Edge Leadership Podcast, I sat down with Dr. J...
Apr 13, 2026
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emotionalintelligence
empathy
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Psychological Safety Is Not Soft. It's Structural.
We talk often in healthcare about systems, strategy, and performance. But one of the most powerful drivers of all three is often misunderstood, or overlooked entirely.
At a recent hospital board retreat in the South, I closed a Saturday keynote on leadership. As the session wrapped, a surg...
Apr 08, 2026
conflict
culture
healthcareleadership
leadership
performance
physicianleadership
psychologicalsafety
tension
trust
vulnerability
Networking Isn't a Career Tactic. It's a Leadership Skill.
Most high-performing professionals don’t struggle with competence.
They struggle with connection.
Not because they lack relational ability, but because networking has been framed incorrectly, as something transactional, time-consuming, or self-promotional.
So they opt out.
They focus on exe...
Apr 06, 2026
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connections
growth
healthcareleadership
leadership
mentorship
networking
physicianleadership
professionalnetworking
sponsorship
success
The Leadership Work of Repair: Navigating Missteps, Misunderstandings, and Misinterpretations.
In leadership, we often celebrate alignment, chemistry, and shared vision. We highlight the partnerships that “just work.” But what’s far less discussed, and far more instructive, is what happens when they don’t.
In a recent episode of The Curiosity Shop, two thought leaders that I admir...
Apr 01, 2026
accountability
growth
growthmindset
healthcareleadership
humility
leadershipdevelopment
selfawareness
trust
Rethinking Resilience: What Leaders Get Wrong About Burnout with author Paula Davis
Burnout continues to rise across high-demand professions, especially in healthcare, law, and other performance-driven environments. Yet many leadership approaches still treat it as an individual issue.
In this episode of The Growth Edge Leadership Podcast, Laurie Baedke sits down with Paula Dav...
Mar 30, 2026
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culture
engagement
healthcareleadership
leadership
performance
physicianleadership
stress
stressmanagement
wellbeing
Failure Isn't the Problem. Wasted Failure Is.
Most leaders say they value learning.
Few have a system for it.
Especially when it comes to failure.
We:→ minimize it→ move past it→ or quietly carry it
But we rarely use it well.
And that’s the gap.
Failure isn’t what limits leadership performance.
Unprocessed failure is.
This week’...
Mar 25, 2026
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leadershipdevelopment
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physicianleadership
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success
The Discipline of Self-Awareness Why Humility, Not Ego, Sustains Leadership Performance.
You don’t have to be loud to have an ego.
Even the most thoughtful, analytical, and measured leaders can quietly protect their assumptions, defend their decisions, or resist feedback.
Ego isn’t about personality.It’s about posture.
And humility is the discipline that keeps it in check.
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Mar 11, 2026
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trust
Calm Is A Competitive Advantage: Leading Wisely In A World That Won’t Slow Down.
The pace of change isn’t just accelerating. It’s compounding.
I'm frequently hearing a common theme in coaching sessions:
“It feels like the ground is shifting faster than I can recalibrate.”
My organizational clients are saying the same thing.
Workforce shifts.AI disruption.Margin pressure.Cu...
Mar 04, 2026
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healthcareleadership
humility
leadership
leadershipdevelopment
mentorship
performance
success
wisdom
Strong Leaders Don’t Outgrow Mentors, They Curate Them.
Perhaps you’ve noticed a trend in this month’s newsletters. By this point in the conversation, one thing should be clear:
Mentorship is not a phase.It’s a practice.
It’s not something you “complete” early in your career and then leave behind once you’ve accumulated enough experience or c...
Feb 25, 2026
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emergingleadership
growth
healthcare
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Mentor Early, Mentor Often: The Compounding Advantage Leaders Overlook
Most leaders don’t resist mentorship because they doubt its value.
They resist it because they think it’s something you do later.
Later, when they’re more experienced.Later, when they’re more confident.Later, when they’ve “earned” the right to ask for someone’s time.
That belief quietl...
Feb 18, 2026
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curiosity
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physicianleadership
success
Mentorship vs. Sponsorship: If You Don’t Know the Difference, You’re Limiting Growth.
Mentorship and sponsorship are often used interchangeably.
They shouldn’t be.
While both are essential to leadership development and career progression, they serve very different purposes. And when leaders misunderstand or collapse the distinction, growth stalls in ways that are often invi...
Feb 11, 2026
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