Five Lessons Learned: 5. Sustain New Habits with Group Coaching

Five Lessons Learned in 10 Years of Experience: Invest in doing it right Culture matters Leaders need to lead Create a culture of psychological safety Sustain new habits with group coaching from certified coaches with proven experience Many years ago Abraham Maslow showed that adult learning is very different from the way children learn.  Adults need to go through four […]

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Five Lessons Learned: 4. Create a Culture of Psychological Safety

Five Lessons Learned in 10 Years of Experience: Invest in doing it right Culture matters Leaders need to lead Create a culture of psychological safety Sustain new habits with group coaching from certified coaches with proven experience “Blame has an inverse relationship with accountability. Accountability by definition is a vulnerable process…blaming is one of the reasons we miss our opportunities […]

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Five Lessons Learned: 3. Leaders Need to Lead

Five Lessons Learned in 10 years of Experience: Invest in doing it right Culture matters Leaders need to lead Create a culture of psychological safety Sustain new habits with group coaching from certified coaches with proven experience Many years ago, when I was beginning my journey in leadership development, I met with CEOs of our healthcare community. The most interesting […]

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Five Lessons Learned: 2. Culture Matters

Five Lessons Learned in 10 years of Experience: Invest in doing it right Culture matters Leaders need to lead Create a culture of psychological safety Sustain new habits with group coaching from certified coaches with proven experience   The challenges that Healthcare faces are the same throughout the country: limited resources, increasing regulatory burdens, dysfunctional payment incentives, suboptimal EMRs, healthcare provider […]

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Five Lessons Learned: 1. Invest in Doing it Right

Five Lessons Learned in 10 years of experience: Invest in doing it right Culture matters Leaders need to lead Create a culture of psychological safety Sustain new habits with group coaching from certified coaches with proven experience   It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to recognize the extraordinary stress today’s practicing physicians are experiencing. They find themselves seeing more patients in […]

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Physician Burnout, Patient Safety, and the Critical Need for Physician Coaching

The Center for Physician Leadership has been working together with health care leaders in supporting health care providers with the overwhelming challenges they are now facing. After Interacting with hundreds of physicians, APCs, and administrative leaders we thought we actually had an accurate understanding of just how severe the recent challenges have been, but we were wrong. Just this week […]

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Physician Leadership: The Key to Burnout Reduction in Your Medical Organization

The term “burnout” in medicine may be defined as chronic, long-term, unresolvable job stress that leads to overwhelming exhaustion, and a lack of fulfillment. Job stressors such as administrative work, long hours, and, most importantly, loss of empowerment all work to reinforce feelings of futility. Ultimately, the stressors lead to feelings of being victims of change, or of having no […]

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Effective Physician Leaders Reawaken Their Adam 2’s

Willing to be wrong is more important than needing to be right. In his book, “The Road to Character,” New York Times columnist David Brooks talks about the two competing descriptions of Adam in Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible. There’s “Adam 1” who strives for worldly success and “Adam 2” who is focused on character and spiritual […]

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