The Lessons in Leadership series features Brown constituents including faculty, alumni, students and friends offering their perspective on a given topic. These discussions typically feature a faculty member presenting an academic/research angle and a practitioner that offers an implementation, “boots on the ground” viewpoint.
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Where can I gain the leadership skillsets I need? Questions:🔥 1. What are the top three ways physicians can explore to educate themselves in being a top leader? 2. What…
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Why think leadership? Questions:🔥 1. What are the FOUR reasons why early career physicians and residents (and even more senior physicians) need to get themselves trained in leadership NOW? 2….
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Simon Sinek’s book “Start With Why” makes a simple but profound statement about leadership: “People don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it.” We are magnetically drawn…
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Conflicts are deeply affecting healthcare environments, and it is time to reflect on how we can transform concerns into opportunities and how to work through our in the moment differences to minimize disruption. Effective teams, and their leaders, need clear communication regarding managing differences that occur in the workplace, and working through concerns that are in process.
This article will bring forward relevant literature with respect to workplace conflicts and model for readers an effective way to pause in the moment when disagreements are going wide of the mark. It will also overview a 6-step method, based on mediation principles, of resolving conflict once the in-the-moment opportunity has passed.
Can’t Doctors and Administrators Get Along?
“Top 3 Ways to Foster An Optimal Working Relationship Between Physician Leaders And Hospital Administrators”
Dr. Paul DeChant is a thought leader to C-level executives pursuing organizational well-being. He is an authority on reducing physician burnout by fixing dysfunction in the clinical workplace. He is co-author of the book, “Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine”, speaks internationally, and blogs regularly at www.pauldechantmd.com.
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I began working with a professional coach approximately 10 years ago. At the time, I was a newly divorced mom of a young daughter, a practicing physician, a new medical…
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When I hear from leaders, staffing is almost always at or near the top of the biggest issues they are facing. It seems we are constantly asking ourselves, Do we have enough staff? This question usually centers on the number of staff. If we are fortunate enough to have the needed numbers, then the discussion moves to items like, What is the experience level of our staff? Usually it is both. One, there’s not enough staff, and two, there’s a lot of inexperience in the staff.
There are no easy answers, or no answers at all.
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Nwando Anyaoku, MD, MPH, MBA, is Chief Health Equity Officer at Swedish Health. A successful physician coach and mentor, Anyaoku is also a faculty member in Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Medical Management, a graduate degree solely for physician leaders and executives. Anyaoku recently shared her observations on how coaching can be a valuable tool not only during times of struggle, but throughout a physician’s career.
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This podcast is being shared by Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Medical Management (MMM) program, which gives physicians unparalleled education and skills to lead healthcare in the future. This segment…
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