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Provider Power with Sara Sherman
by Sara Sherman
Provider Power Moves is where developmental disability leaders stop surviving and start leading.If you’re tired of staffing chaos, compliance stress, burnout, and “why is this still a problem?” — you’re in the right place.Each episode delivers practical strategy, tough-love clarity, and real-world tools you can implement immediately to strengthen supervisors, empower DSPs, and build services that actually move the needle on independence.Less theory. More action.These are the moves that change everything.
Episodes
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If Everything Is Urgent Your Operations Are Failing
Being “nice” feels safe, until your team stops taking you seriously, boundaries disappear, and accountability quietly dies.
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Being Nice is Killing Your Authority
Being “nice” feels safe — until your team stops taking you seriously, boundaries disappear, and accountability quietly dies.
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If You Avoid Hard Conversations, Your Team Already Knows
You might think you’re avoiding conflict—but your team thinks you’re avoiding leadership. It’s time to facilitate hard conversations with clarity, confidence, and facts, instead of fear, anxiety, and dread.
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The Hidden Reason Your Staff Don't Take Ownership
When staff don’t take ownership, it’s not an attitude problem—it’s a design problem. Learn how organizational structure shapes behavior and why accountability depends on clarity.
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You Got Promoted, But No One Listens to You. Here's Why.
Promotions are great! Leading your former coworkers can get a little tricky. Learn what's wrong, how to fix it, and what happens if you don't.
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How to Be a Leader Staff Actually Respect
A team doesn’t become “respectable” because of authority—it happens when leadership earns it in everyday moments. Let's breakdown what supervisors actually do (and don’t do) that makes staff want to follow…or quietly check out.
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Not the Best Supervision Philosophy
Transcription It’s a very well-meaning philosophy. I totally understand where supervisors are coming from. Unfortunately, this philosophy is sabotaging your success as a supervisor and diminishing your impact as a team leader. Welcome to the Provider Power Moves Podcast. I’m your host, Sara...
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Lazy Doesn't Matter
Transcription Do you have lazy staff? I know it’s pretty common to think that you do. I hear about “lazy” staff every time I do a frontline supervisor training. Lazy. Here for the wrong reasons. Don’t care. Basically broken humans beyond repair. But they just keep showing up to the job.…
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The 6 Ps of Constructive Customer Service
Transcription Let’s talk customer service. I hear this all the time from provider agency leaders and managers. New hires come in, and they don’t know anything about customer service. And honestly, sometimes even long-time staff still haven’t quite gotten it. So I ask a simple question: are you...
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The Hidden Reason DSPs Quit
Transcription Did you see the Relias report that said 50% of DSPs report leaving their jobs because of their supervisor? And if you spend any time at all on LinkedIn, you’ve likely seen post after post talking about how employees don’t leave jobs — they leave bosses. In fact, in the Gallup…
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Time Management is the Biggest Lie
Transcription Time management is the biggest lie in the book. You’ve been told your whole life that if you just managed your time better, everything would work. You’d hit your goals. You’d get everything done. Your staff would perform better. But here’s the truth: time cannot be managed. You…
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3 Critical Communication Steps that Create Independent Staff
Transcription Today, we’re talking about one deceptively simple goal that changes everything about supervision and staff independence. No, we’re not talking about they can do it if I remind them, or they’ll get it done if I follow up, or even if I nag, beg, plead, and do that for days, I’ll...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Provider Power Moves is where developmental disability leaders stop surviving and start leading.If you’re tired of staffing chaos, compliance stress, burnout, and “why is this still a problem?” — you’re in the right place.Each episode delivers practical strategy, tough-love clarity, and real-world tools you can implement immediately to strengthen supervisors, empower DSPs, and build services that actually move the needle on independence.Less theory. More action.These are the moves that change everything.
HOSTED BY
Sara Sherman
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Provider Power Moves is where developmental disability leaders stop surviving and start leading.If you’re tired of staffing chaos, compliance stress, burnout, and “why is this still a problem?” — you’re in the right place.Each episode delivers practical strategy, tough-love clarity, and real-world...
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