Leadership Coaching

Becoming an effective leader is one of the greatest challenges that a physician will face in his or her career.

The unfortunate reality is that medical training does little to prepare us for the challenges of these roles. The top-down leadership style of giving orders and expecting action that we learn in medical training is a highly inefficient, ineffective, and stressful way of managing others.

Given this, it is no surprise that most physicians struggle in leadership roles and never quite thrive. Not only does this result in worse performance and higher dissatisfaction in the groups that they lead, but it also severely limits future career opportunities for the physician leaders themselves.

To thrive as physician leaders we must engage in a process to overcome this gap in our skills and build the mindset needed to lead. This involves cultivating a whole new set of skills around managing individuals and teams, delegating, balancing competing stakeholders needs, and creating a compelling vision that others want to follow.

Executive coaching for physicians leaders is a powerful way to rapidly facilitate the professional growth needed to thrive in these roles. Whether you are a seasoned healthcare executive, manage a private practice, lead an academic department, or are a physician stepping into leadership for the first time, leadership coaching can help you quickly:

• Effect real, sustainable change in the people and systems around you
• Improve decision making
• Learn how to support others in bringing their best selves to their work, rather than “managing” their behavior
• Create a powerful vision for where you want to take your group, and learn how to inspire others to follow that vision
• Improve communication, engagement, and conflict-resolution skills
• Increase self-awareness around the strategies you use as a leader for rising to challenges, getting your needs met, and managing stressors
• More efficiently manage the constant bids for your time and attention, and learn how to focus on only what is truly important
• Clarify the next best step in your career, and what you need to do to get there
• Hit the ground running when starting a new position

Executive coaching is available in on-going coaching packages to support developing leaders over time, or as an intensive one-day VIP coaching experience with follow-up support. Learn more about how executive coaching can transform your experience of physician leadership and vastly improve your career!

You can also download our printable brochure on physician leadership services!