Lindsay Gilbertson, MAOL
Leadership breeds generational success.
How are you leading your body for lifelong success? Now I know nothing about physical therapy, but I do know bad leadership, bad coaching, and bad teaching will breed dissatisfied results (and unfortunately, gets blamed on the receivers of the coaching and not the givers of leadership).
All I know is I ride my peloton daily, do strength classes 3x/week, and always bug Kurt with questions on my form. It’s funny when someone loves something so much they’ll drop anything to talk it. Yup, thats my husband and PT.
So who am I? What does MAOL stand for? Why do I get a bio page if I don’t treat you?
Treating You and Helping You are completely different things.
Heres what you need to know. Being a PT spouse means you hear the ins-and-outs of the medical world, non-stop. Literally….non…stop. But over the years, I’ve seen many fascinating things, whether Kurt was at EXOS or Kaiser, Therapydia or Feldcare…the setting kept changing, the problems never changed. People need help. People can’t find the help they need.
Sounds like a leadership problem to me.
The more I learned about it, the more I saw it was a money thing. Where the money goes, the effort goes.
Less money/hour, well, shorter treatment times.
Less money/hour still, well, less time with the PT.
Less money/hour still, well, double, wait no, triple book the PT.
That’s the system you were in. Thats the predicator of your success. Many people succeed. Many people don’t. And those that do, what do we call success? Seeing them back at the office the next year? Nope, that sounds frustrating to me. But I’m no doctor.
Let me put it this way, if I get my camera fixed, I would like to be able to rely on it and use it how I want to use it. Not be told to not use it how I was using it cause it may break again, or be told it’s older so don’t use it as much, or be sold something great, but be back to buy more things for it next month cause what was great, aint so great anymore. Sounds frustrating. I’ve never met you but I feel inclined to say I’m sorry.
I’m sorry for what you’ve been through.
MAOL stands for Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership, with which I got from Concordia University Irvine. It opened my eyes to the leadership problems that plague us, but more importantly, equipped me to coach through the issues. Not just complain about them. Which comes back to my first question for you, person reading this still, hopefully telling my husband next week how awesome this bio is…
How are you leading your body for lifelong success?
Do you rely on others to do things for you in life, or do you leverage your skills, learn what you need to learn, create a plan, and fix it. Yeah thats what I thought…