Ep 65 Chantelle Turner With Kavita Nadan

When You Grow People, You Grow Business In this episode of Pharmacy View Podcast’s Pharmacy Career, Resource & Training, host, Kavita Nadan, Pharmacist, and Founder at Locumate, is joined by Chantelle Turner, a Pharmacist Leadership and Business Coach at TURN Pharmacy Leadership. The two talk about the importance of being self-aware to help oneself and others in the community, the need to develop high-performance culture, and how emotional intelligence and authenticity will be at the core of Pharmacies of the future. Chantelle, as both a Pharmacist and a Pharmacist Leadership Coach, wants to help people grow their leadership skills to become more confident, positive, and resilient for themselves and for others in the community. Chantelle reminisces that there were two important factors that encouraged them to pursue coaching for Pharmacists: • One, Chantelle started in the Pharmacy at a young age and for people to take them seriously they needed to gain trust from their team and also the community. Chantelle found that leadership skills and being able to communicate effectively was at the core of that. • Secondly, when Chantelle got a Pharmacy Manager’s job they realized that even though the store was doing fairly well, there was a level of disengagement in the team members. Chantelle’s leadership coaching was meant to help do away with that sense of disengagement. Overall, what Chantelle came to understand pretty early on was that the problem did not lie with the technical skills in the Pharmacies but in the life skills of the people who were running the Pharmacies. It had more to do lack of trust, confidence, self-worth, and the intrinsic belief that they could do something more than what they were already doing. Chantelle then realized that by helping Pharmacists they were able to create a ripple effect as those Pharmacists would then show up and communicate with others and teach them how they could positively influence themselves and the people around them. Those coaching, Chantelle has been able to help p