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Travel Nursing: Knowing When It’s Time to Do It

Strategy Driven

Travel nurses can expand their skills while learning new on-the-job procedures. One con to being a travel nurse is missing time with hometown friends due to extended employment gaps between assignments. However, many travel nurses find a support network of fellow travelers to bond with at their destinations.

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The Cost of Ignoring Employees? 120% Of Annual Income or $0.35 / Share, Southwest Airlines Discovers

Modern Servant Leader

Southwest Airlines just agreed to a $140 Million settlement with the Department of Transportation over the meltdown of Southwest’s systems during December 2022 travel. As a result, the airline had to cancel nearly 17,000 flights and leave an estimated 2 million passengers stranded, during one of the busiest travel times of the year​​.

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The Top Servant Leadership Course Just Got Better

Modern Servant Leader

Lesson 2: Unlearning Bad Leadership Principles Sometimes, before we can travel down the correct path, we have to step off the wrong one. Lesson 4: History of Servant Leadership Uncover the origins of servant leadership, how long it has existed, who was the first person to coin the term, and more. Only a short time longer.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

And what about the stories we've all heard over the years about sick patients—whether infected with Ebola or COVID-19—who were sent home or allowed to travel because busy staff people were following a protocol to the letter rather than using common sense? Why and how do these kinds of things happen? The outcome was phenomenal.

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Will The Remote Work Boom See A Rise In Digital Nomadism?

The Horizons Tracker

To say travel has been disrupted this year is perhaps something of an understatement. While newspaper headlines have examined the travails of the tourism industry and the impact reductions in business travel is having on the sector, they are not the only group for whom travel restrictions have had a profound impact.

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Preparing Your Business for COVID-19

Lead Change Blog

There are three cognitive biases, in particular, that you need to watch out for where the COVID-19 pandemic is concerned: Normalcy Bias — The brain causes us to assume things will keep going as they normally have been, and we assess the near-term future based on our short-term past experience. Conclusion.

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Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work

Lead Change Blog

Susan Fowler—top leadership researcher, consultant, coach, and author of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does —says that you can’t actually motivate people: they are already motivated, but generally in superficial and short-term ways.