PeaceHealth Leadership Model

 

Relationship-Centered

Relationship-centered describes a person whose relationships with others are integral to their life.  However, one cannot be such a person without being a strong individual. 

One of the great mysteries of life is that it takes a strength, self-knowledge, and integrity to be a person who can enter well into and nurture relationships.  This assumes that one has the room (psychologically, spiritually) within themselves for the other. This takes integrity and humility.

Relationship-centered leaders recognize that organizations do not achieve outcomes, but that people do.   They do it by building relationships – one person at a time. They see the individual and understand that the organization is a community of relationships.

Nancy Steiger, Whatcom Region SVP Operations

Nancy Steiger
SVP Operations
CEO/Chief Mission Officer
Whatcom Region

"I have always felt that relationships are the way to get things done. It’s the people, not the organization, that achieve outcomes, and it’s working with and through people that you achieve great things. I’ve never really seen a way to accomplish great things without first building good relationships and good teams."

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