In our work coaching leaders in healthcare, we’ve found many are neck-deep in critical transitions: taking on a new role, moving to a new organization, spearheading a turnaround or leading in an interim capacity. Whatever the case, leaders in transition have a crucial...
I was in a meeting recently with a prominent physician leader who wanted to learn more about our coaching firm and what we offer for healthcare leaders. He made a provocative statement: “You've got a branding problem.” It struck me profoundly: Here was a highly...
We’ve all known “natural-born” leaders who seem to ooze charisma and good business sense. Often they succeed for a while… until they don’t. At some point, the skills, approaches and relationships that got them where they are stop working or delivering desired results....
How’s your year going, personally and professionally? The mid-year check-in is a simple yet powerful tool for gauging your progress and charting the months ahead.
As a healthcare leader, you’ll encounter plenty of situations that require you to build or repair trust quickly. How do you move quickly to a position of trust? MEDI President Lee Angus shares a few practices he’s used to build trust quickly, and how you can do the same.
Three years since the pandemic forced so many healthcare and business functions to go remote, virtual leadership has emerged as a crucial competency for high-performing organizations.
In this post — the last installment in our Key Leadership Competencies series — I want to share a few practices that make virtual leadership highly effective for us. As you apply them to your own work and teams, I believe you’ll see tremendous improvements in performance, engagement, and results.
Most leaders have no strategy training, and half misunderstand what strategy even is. On the flip side, organizations with well-articulated strategies outperform competitors by 304% in profits, 322% in sales, and 883% in total return to shareholders. There’s a lot riding on your strategic ability! Here’s how to develop this critical leadership competency.
Leaders who cultivate a growth mindset culture reap more resilient, higher-performing teams — particularly in times of great change and uncertainty.
Leaders who cultivate a growth mindset are more resilient and better positioned to lead effectively, particularly in times of crisis and ambiguity.
As a firm of executive coaches working exclusively with healthcare leaders, we’ve come to realize the competencies required to lead well in our industry are changing. Rapidly. Take team dynamics, for instance. While it has always been true that healthcare is the...