Positive Leadership in Your Functional Medicine Practice, with Jon Gordon

<h2>Functional Medicine Providers: What You Will Learn:</h2> <ul> <li>How we as functional medicine providers can handle the negativity, challenges, and change resulting from COVID</li> <li>What it takes to lead with positivity and optimism, and how it will help us during these difficult times</li> <li>Why leadership is a transferred belief, and how we can share it with our team members</li> <li>The importance of believing in a better, brighter future for our practices</li> <li>The key questions we should be asking ourselves right now</li> <li>How to understand our past experiences so we can become better, more positive leaders</li> <li>How to cope with financial stressors when it seems like there is nowhere else to go</li> </ul> <h2>Positive Leadership for Functional Medicine Providers</h2> <p>Even the most skilled functional medicine providers struggle with business and leadership challenges because medical school doesn’t cover that side of the industry. This week’s podcast guest is none other than the legendary Jon Gordon. Jon is a leadership consultant who is passionate about developing positive leaders, organizations, and teams. He is a nine-time best-selling author, a keynote speaker, host of the Positive University podcast, and an expert in all things leadership. In this episode of the FM Shift, Jon joins us to explain what FM practitioners can do to lead their practices to growth and scale.</p> <h2>Leadership is a Transferred Belief</h2> <p>With stress, negativity, and change mounting from COVID and political unrest in the United States, it is important to arm yourself with the skills to maintain your composure. Your team needs a strong leader to pull them through the storm and give them confidence, optimism, and security. Optimism is a competitive advantage during this—it is a game-changer. And with optimism and positivity, leadership becomes a transferred belief. You need to feed yourself before you feed others. Because as a leader, if you don’t have it, you can’t share it.</p> <h2>Pessimists Do Not Cha