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IDD Leader
For IDD Providers: Tired of the revolving door of staff? Join host Nate Beers as he and other industry leaders share loads of actionable advice on how you can retain and grow your DSP workforce. Just because there's a nationwide DSP workforce crisis doesn't mean that your organization has to churn through staff. Listen to innovative solutions to increase your staff retention and give your organization a competitive advantage so that at the end of the day you provide the best quality care for those you serve.
More effective supervisors. Stronger workforce. Lower turnover.
IDD Leader
Latest Episodes
Ep. 99 - The One-Line Definition of Culture That Sticks - (w/ Dr. Manny Rodriguez)
If some version of this story sounds familiar, you're not alone: There's a rebranding effort — new logo, new shirts, new colors, the whole thing — that lasted about a month before nobody could find the shirts anymore and half the company forgot...
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Ep. 98 - How One Org Cut Turnover From 60% to 20% w/ Dr. Manny Rodriguez
Turnover was sitting at 60% year after year, and Dr. Manny Rodriguez says the first question nobody was asking wasn’t “how do we fix this,” it was “why do we assume we already know why people are leaving?”You’ve probably felt this tensio...
Ep. 97 - The Leadership Bench Every IDD Org Needs w/ Wes & Kristy Mast
Take a full two weeks off — no email, no check-ins, phone off — and watch what happens to your organization.If that thought makes you a little uneasy, you're not alone, and Wes and Kristy Mast built their entire leadership system around...
Ep. 96 - Why Great Leaders Stop Solving Everyone’s Problems w/ Wes & Kristy Mast
Wes Mast used to call himself the "chief everything officer." Answering phones, doing inspections, handling marketing, driving to job sites, and eating lunch in the car — all at the same time. Somewhere in there, he was also picking up dead chi...
Ep. 95 - What No Executive Director Is Allowed To Say (w/ FCS & AADD)
There’s a sentence Amanda Elder says almost every executive director is thinking, but nobody actually says out loud.Amanda leads Frontier Community Services in rural Alaska. Kim Champney leads the state’s disability provider association...