Leadership Coaching for Physicians
Why Coach Physicians?
From the surgical suites to the corporate boardrooms, physicians are going from gowns, gloves and greens to business suites and blackberries and back again all in one day. As healthcare continues to change and innovate, the need for physicians to take on leadership roles is critical. Clinical departments need great leaders. Hospital administrators need committed physicians at the table to help move the organization forward. And Provincial and National Healthcare Committees need dynamic physicians who will bring their leadership skills to create new directions and industry changes that will improve patient care.
‘Between 24 and 40% of Fortune 500 companies hire executive coaches for their employees’. Hay Group®
With a busy practice only a few will step forward for these positions. Talented, highly educated men and women, they possess the passion and drive to make a difference. The question then becomes ‘how will doctors prepare for these leadership roles’? A physician’s skills and talents are developed in medical school and enhanced through years of clinical practice. How will they now fill the skills gap that exists between the examination room and the boardroom?
They will need:
- To understand the dynamics of system-wide thinking
- Techniques to build better work relations, develop consesus and resolve conflict
- To understand when to manage and when to lead
- Tools for transparent feedback
What is Leadership Coaching?
Leadership coaching provides a process for physicians to develop and mature their leadership skills.
The coaching process allows the physician to step away from their
day-to-day routine and spend time focusing on the bigger picture.
Sessions are designed to be a safe place where the participant
can process thoughts out loud, enjoy the opportunity to have
a confidential conversation, and learn to be comfortable with
not knowing in a way that sparks creativity, creates innovation
and readies them for successful collaborative endeavors.
Coaching helps the physician identify system wide forces at
work
that shape and influence the individuals working within the
organization.
The coaches role is to help the physician build positive work relations in both clinical and administrative settings by raising issues identified through data collection and feedback, resolving and removing barriers, and solving problems by way of action planning and follow through.
When should you hire a coach?
- When you sense you are capable of more
- Needing an experienced, independent sounding board
- Want to develop specific leadership or managerial competencies
- Want to plan more strategically
- Want to work through a problem or conflict
- Want to improve your communications
- Want to build a better team
- Want to establish a better balance between work and personal life
'A companies investment
in providing coaching to its executives realized an average
return on investments of almost six times the cost of
the coaching'
Manchester Inc
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