Shifting Perspective

CALA Conference Motivates Leaders

By Yardi Blog Staff on Oct 19, 2018 in News

The California Assisted Living Association (CALA) 2018 Fall Conference and Trade show is set for November 5-7 at the Renaissance Palm Springs & Palm Springs Convention Center. The event theme is “Elevate,” inspired by senior living professionals continually seeking to improve clinical care while enhancing residents’ quality of life.

The three-day conference focuses on several important issues facing the senior living industry, including: dementia care best practices, legal and regulatory awareness, sales and marketing strategies and leadership and staff culture.

Yardi will sponsor the conference luncheon featuring Jennifer Powers, coach, mentor, trainer and author of best-selling book “Oh, Shift!,” which illustrates how making small changes can be life changing. Powers is a leading expert in helping professionals improve their confidence and competence, so they can live and work at their full potential.

“What I have found is executives and leaders are the most siloed. They’re the people that have the fewest outlets for sharing their fears, their concerns, their limiting beliefs. They have to put on the face that people need to see in a leader. And what happens is that it perpetuates a low level of confidence, more fear, and something called impostor’s syndrome. It’s the condition that a person finds him or herself in where they don’t believe they’ve really earned the position they have. They feel like they’re a farce that’s soon going to be found out. That any day now, they’re going to be discovered as incompetent. And they just don’t feel like they deserve to be where they are. It’s truly an epidemic,” Powers explains.

The coaching she offers provides concrete tools to make positive changes that improve effectiveness in the workplace.

“What I do in the world of self-development is really have a strategic conversation built around inquiry. It helps someone build the awareness that they don’t yet know they have to recognize strengths they’re not tapping into to and limiting beliefs that are holding them back, so they can know themselves a little bit better and use that awareness to create change in their life.”

Powers earned her Master’s Degree in Sociology from the University of Houston and received her training and certification from Coach Training Alliance. She is an MCC (Master Certified Coach), the highest earned credential from the International Coach Federation, which puts her in the top 3% of coaches worldwide.

CALA Conference attendees are invited to visit Yardi at booth #47 or schedule time to meet with the Yardi senior living team to learn more about its single connected solution for senior living.