It doesn’t take a crystal ball to know the next several months will continue to bring intense pressure, changes and opportunities for healthcare organizations. It’s a season that will reveal extraordinary leaders, and also expose leaders struggling with these new...
Leadership can be a lonely experience. That loneliness is a common reason why many healthcare leaders turn to executive coaching. You see, leaders are always in the spotlight in their own organizations. They have few safe places to turn and share their misgivings,...
The healthcare landscape continues to shift under our feet. Looking ahead, fulfilling your organization’s mission, serving your community well, and remaining financially strong all hinge largely on this oft-overlooked discipline: resilience. To be clear, we’re not...
Over the years, we’ve had the privilege of helping hundreds of healthcare leaders transform their organizations, build careers and relationships they’re proud of. And yet, we find some myths persist in our industry when it comes to executive coaching. In this post, we...
Ego-driven leaders tend to make up stories when facing challenges in order to avoid taking personal responsibilities. When you encounter an upsetting situation, your ego may cause you to make guesses and judgements about others’ intentions and you start telling...
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a must for high-performing leaders during regular times, but it is especially important during crises. When times are uncertain and decisions are especially complex, leaders need to tune in to their own emotions in order to better...
For many healthcare leaders, things have been nothing short of brutal. How does a leader stay in a good place and help others do the same when things are so difficult? At MEDI we have noticed three essential elements. Abide by the Stockdale Paradox Confront the brutal...
You’re working hard to grow as a leader and are making meaningful progress. Well done! Looking ahead, how do you sustain your progress until those changes become new, unconscious habits? It's helpful to think of growth as a cycle with four distinct phases: Unconscious...
Along with our experiences as coaches, studies increasingly point to a new reality for leaders: The ways we've led and made decisions in healthcare are no longer adequate to lead today's more complex organizations. Today's new realities require agile leaders masterful...
How do you give feedback to someone on your team who is not self-aware? So often, our feedback is judgmental, too general, and over-generalized. It looks something like this: “Yesterday at our meeting, you acted like a jerk. Why do you have to keep...