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Custom courses are taught by Angelina Salazar, Chief Executive Officer of WHA.
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Reality-Based Leadership Philosophy: Ditching The Drama & Turning Excuses Into Results
The Reality-Based Leadership Program is founded through research which proved that a tremendous hit to any organization’s bottom line is waste – more specifically, the emotional waste of drama. Emotional waste shows itself as resistance to change, entitlement mentalities, complaints about workload, over-dependence upon management, lack of nimbleness and adaptation, and using circumstances or the environment as excuses for missed goals.
Emotional waste erodes business cases for new implementations, slows growth of organizations, and drains much of the margin on even the best business concept. And yet, most financially-minded leaders and investors ignore the incredible opportunity to reduce emotional expenses in favor of more concrete reductions in spending on expenses.
As with any waste, the best way to reduce that waste is through implementing great processes and engaging great people. Reality-Based Leadership provides leaders with the competencies necessary to change the mindsets of their teams, teach great mental processes that eliminate emotional waste of drama while ensuring top engagement and accountability. This philosophy isn’t just about raising morale, but about turning talent into productivity. The philosophy truly captures the value that leaders can bring to the organization and ensures that value is visible throughout the organization.
The learning objectives of the Reality-Based Leadership Program offerings are to help leaders become fluent in proven techniques and strategies to:
- Conserve team energy and direct leadership resources to issues with the highest possible ROI
- Reduce stress and conflict in their own life and the lives of their teams
- Enhance engagement and accountability of human resources
- Utilize development opportunities to enhance the capabilities of their talent
- Avoid the most common things leaders do to create barriers to their own change efforts
- Understand the new employee value equation – the way in which employees truly add value in the workplace
- Understand and be able to use a new metric for assessing talent based upon the value the employee adds to the organization as a whole, including emotional expensiveness
- Enhance the leaders’ ability to hire, coach and reward those who can truly impact the mission of the business
- Learn simple yet powerful strategies to help employees move from a mentality of learned helplessness to personal accountability
- Understand the key elements of development and coaching along with many strategies for fast-tracking the development of future and diverse leaders
- Build a performance expectation of “thrivability” for each employee
- Gain fluency in strategies to rally teams to align willingly to organizational goals
- Learn to utilize a variety of Fast Track tools of to move through resistance and begin problem-solving
“Angelina did a great job and the class was just what I needed at the right time. Thank you!”
– Brian Heersink, IT Director, San Luis Valley Health
Angelina is the Chief Executive Officer of Western Healthcare Alliance and its affiliated companies. Working with the Board of Directors, key stakeholders, and the executive management team, she establishes long-range goals, strategies, plans, and policies for the overall benefit of rural healthcare in Colorado, eastern Utah, and the Thumb Region of Michigan. She joined the WHA team in May 2016 to strengthen and lead the outreach, marketing and communications programs. In January 2019 she was named CEO after stepping into the interim role in July 2018.
Angelina started her career in education quickly advancing her role from Outreach Coordinator to Regional Development Director for a national nonprofit. After many years of developing programming and support, Angelina was recruited into the realm of healthcare. She started in marketing for a Critical Access Hospital in western Colorado, quickly advanced to Director of Customer Service, Marketing, Community Relations, and Development. Before leaving the hospital to join WHA, she held the executive position of Vice President of Business Development. In that role, she oversaw all communications, volunteers, marketing, physician services and identified business development opportunities. She established and implemented the infrastructure to support the organization through state and federal grants, fundraising events, and the establishment of a foundation.
In addition, Angelina serves on the National Cooperative of Health Networks Board of Directors, the Colorado Health Institute Board of Directors (current Board President), the Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions Advisory Board, Club 20 Healthcare Policy (current Co-Chair), National Rural Health Association Rural Health Policy Congress, the Ariel Clinical Services Board, and the Prime Health Advisory Board. Her dedication to solving rural healthcare challenges and building strong relationships in the community have helped to build visibility, impact, and financial stability.
Angelina possesses a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English with a minor in Spanish, two Master of Arts Degrees in Language Acquisition and Psychology as well as a certification in mediation, and conflict resolution. She is also a certified facilitator and Reality-based Leadership instructor.