Accept your weaknesses to lean into your strengths
The concept of strengths-based leadership has been popular for several years now. The basic idea of a strengths-based approach is that instead of spending time hand wringing over how to improve areas of weakness for you, people you manage, or others on your team, you focus on building up your/their strengths. When I was finally […]
Nine Months of Impact: Celebrating Victories in CHP’s Campaigns
Nine months ago, we launched our most ambitious agenda ever: Four bold healthcare accountability campaigns led by our grassroots members. Since then, we’ve been hard at work. We’ve delivered key victories and made progress across all our campaigns. We trained and invested in our members as they took on key leadership roles. We significantly grew […]
I’ve been working with our leaders on the Communications Organizing Team to get clear on their self-interest–what’s in it for them–in fighting to transform our for-profit health care system. At trainings and team meetings, a common issue has surfaced: many of us have been taught to focus on the privileges and advantages we do have in […]
To win progressive change, including a healthcare system that puts people over profit, we need to build a bigger “we” — a broad and powerful base of people who will fight for democratic control and systems that work for all of us. Center for Health Progress staff and eight of our leaders recently joined 900+ […]
Ever since I can remember, I have been providing English interpretation and translation for my parents, who are monolingual Spanish speakers. Without other options, my parents were forced to rely on me to help them communicate, not just at grocery stores or school functions, but also as they tried to navigate more serious things like […]
Growing up, and for much of my life, I internalized the belief that to think only of others, acting out of selflessness, was the key to a meaningful life. All around me, I saw that those viewed as most worthy in our society were often celebrated for how much they served other people, even though […]
Stepping into my power as a first generation American
Growing up as the daughter of Cuban immigrants, I was taught to always be grateful for what I had, no matter how bad things were. While this made me very humble, it kept me from critiquing many of the systems in the US, even when they didn’t work for me. I became uninsured at the […]
