Feedback is imperative for leaders. There are two kinds of feedback that leaders receive, positive and negative. Both types of feedback are critical to a leader’s success. Feedback tells us if we are on course or off course. Much like a GPS system in our car, it...
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Do leaders need courage?
It takes a lot of courage for a healthcare leader to address the challenges and complexity of the healthcare world. Most people do not think of courage as a leadership competency. They believe that courage is a ‘thing’ that we either have or do not have. However,...
Leadership and Accountability
Creating Healthy Organizational Discipline When you hear the word Accountability, what comes to mind? If you are like many people, the word provokes feelings of fear associated with negative consequences for failing to deliver the expected outcome. One CEO described...
Leadership and the evolution of a team
Leadership teams go through normal, predictable and manageable stages of evolution as they come together and begin to tackle the challenges that face them. Some stages are fun and exciting. Other stages can be so miserable that they cause leaders to question the...
How do you accelerate a leader’s transition into their new role?
A leader’s ability to transition into a new role sets the tone for the organizations ability to achieve results. Too often leaders are promoted into a new position because they did an excellent job at their old position. For example, a physician is...
Executive alignment
What is the best investment a healthcare organization can make right now? Leadership Coaching. The best investment an organization can make right now to get executive alignment is leadership coaching for their executives and leadership development for...
Accelerating the results of newly hired / promoted physician leaders
When an individual assumes a new or different leadership role they have a 40% chance of failure. That’s a disturbing statistic. Health systems and hospitals across the country recognize the critical role that physician leaders must play in transforming care delivery...
How executive coaching bridges gaps in leadership training
A MEDI executive coach's take on how coaching bridges the gaps that are sometimes left by leadership training: I am regularly reminded of the value of healthcare executive coaching together with training, and the differences between them. I frequently hear from...
Creating a Powerful, Positive Impression… the Intentional Leader
We make major decisions about others at lightning speed… and them about us. In fact, we’ve read that people create 11 impressions in the first seven seconds of an encounter. The moment you meet someone – a new boss or colleague, a patient, etc. - his or her brain...
Can you afford to be wrong about your next physician leader?
Where will you find your next physician leader? Every week, MEDI talks to colleagues who are trying to recruit experienced physician leaders to fill strategic roles, but finding them hard to find and never knowing if the one they select will really “fit”. The cost of...