Effective business leaders orchestrate culture, setting the stage for creativity, employee engagement, the attraction and retention of top talent and marketplace success.
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Monday, March 27, 2023
As reported by Dennis Chapman in the Wisconsin State Journal
Effective business leaders orchestrate culture, setting the stage for creativity, employee engagement, the attraction and retention of top talent and marketplace success.
Their leadership engenders employee buy in. Supported employees sustain the culture, stoking that success. As former NBA basketball coach Phil Jackson said, “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
This year’s Top Workplaces survey identified three stand-out leaders. Here’s a brief look at the approaches of this year’s special award winners for leadership:
Lynne Sexten, Agrace: After serving as a hospital administrator, Lynne Sexten arrived as president and CEO at Agrace in 2012 and immediately noticed that the patients were not as economically or racially diverse as those she saw in a hospital setting.
She went to work finding ways to help people of all means gain access to the care and support Agrace provides to people who are aging, seriously ill, dying or grieving. That gave birth to Agrace’s Care for All program.
“It’s very rewarding for staff to know that we don’t turn people away ever,” she said. “We really wanted to put our money where our mouth was and raise an endowment.”
That commitment — along with Sexten’s employee support and commitment to diversity was called out by Agrace employees. “Agrace actually shows that they care about us, their employees, their patients and their families,” said one employee. Another remarked: “They are driven by the mission.”
Sexten said she engineers many employee listening sessions and tries to be relatable to everyone on Agrace’s 850-member staff. And she believes in rewarding employees who tackle the important work of helping Agrace’s patients.
“We were able to give our staff a nice bonus this year, because we know that inflation socked them in the nose,” she said. “Rather than putting it in a bank account, we wanted to give it to them because they are the most important thing.”
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