Dr. Renée Thompson

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3,566 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Aug

Dr. Renée Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Coffee Break: Breaking the Cycle of Bullying in Healthcare, One Cup at a Time · EP. 147: Throwback Episode: Collaborative Leadership in Healthcare: Putting People First · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Well, with my team, this is what they did.

I said, okay, we have big rocks.

Somebody then added, and actually it may have been me at first, okay, now that I think of it, added, okay, well, we have five big rocks.

Here are five little rocks.

Someone else, though, added pebbles, and then someone else added sand.

I'm like, no, we cannot do that.

Yeah, the sand is not planned.

We cannot have all of that because that's just an enormous to do list.

And, you know, at the end of every quarter, if you put so think about it at the end of every quarter, the end of every month, every week, every day, if your to do list is unrealistic, you're going to feel that you haven't accomplished anything.

But I love the fact that you started at 12 and you really narrowed it down to what are the five behaviors?

as a leader that I need to, you know, every single day implement.

So I think that's so smart.

So, so smart.

Okay.

As we start wrapping up, what would you say if somebody's listening or watching, what's one piece of practical advice you would give to, let's talk about our brand new leaders who wanted to get started to really show up as a leader who cares about her people and takes care of her people so that her people can take care of those patients?

I think that should be a bumper sticker.

Yeah.

okay you can't care about your people from your desk and you know when i was a a unit director brand new you know a lot of people know my story i only lasted a year i had no idea what i was doing and there were so many bad behaviors that i was just ill-equipped and it's one of the reasons that i do this work now is because i felt like such a failure and it wasn't a failure i just wasn't equipped well

Stacey, I sat at my desk every day and I wasn't with my people because I didn't know how important that was.

And now when I look back, when I think about the potential that I had to really transform that department, I wasn't ready for it yet, again.

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