Leaders who cultivate a growth mindset culture reap more resilient, higher-performing teams — particularly in times of great change and uncertainty.
Leadership Development
Key Leadership Competencies: Growth Orientation (Part 1)
Leaders who cultivate a growth mindset are more resilient and better positioned to lead effectively, particularly in times of crisis and ambiguity.
Key Leadership Competencies: Teams Thinking
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...
Key Leadership Competencies: Complexity Fit
Forced to evolve or else, this is a time of intense transformation for healthcare leaders. As you navigate the current healthcare environment, you’ve likely noticed many established “best practices” that worked well once upon a time (or at the health system across...
Key Leadership Competencies: Connection
It is impossible to overstate the importance of connection in healthcare. Whether you think of connection in literal terms like a heart electrode connected to a patient, or the interaction of the healthcare team as they work together to serve patients and their...
3 Steps to Choosing Your Ideal Executive Coach
When healthcare executives excel in their field, they are often encouraged to seek executive coaching to unlock the next level of their potential. In fact, most high-potential performers enlist coaches to develop their professional capabilities, reports the Harvard...
Key Leadership Competencies: Social Intelligence & Awareness
In a previous post, we kicked off our Leadership Competencies series with emotional intelligence — a skill that sits at the top of critically important competencies in a leader. In our current environment of constant change, unmanageable stress, competing priorities...
Key Leadership Competencies: Emotional Intelligence
This post kicks off a 7-part series in leadership competencies we find most critical for driving meaningful transformation in healthcare. Details below. A few months ago, we reviewed key leadership competencies we’ve found most critical in driving meaningful...
Developing Effective Physician Champions to Accelerate Progress, Buy-In
As hospitals work to navigate change, it is critical that they do so in a manner which reflects respect for the impact of change on the practice of their physicians in order to secure their support and commitment. We’ve seen rising interest in best practices for...
11 Key Questions for a Great New Year, Personally and Professionally
Happy New Year! The end of the year and beginning of a new one provides a natural place for us to pause, reflect and move forward with intention for ourselves, our families, our teams. As you begin a new chapter in 2023, it's my hope that this focused set of questions...