Dec 30, 2021 | Leadership, Resilience
Resilience is the ability to persevere through stress. Many articles focus on personal resilience strategies and self-care is certainly important to healthcare leaders. But where real change happens is within healthcare organizations. Organizational resiliency is...
Oct 19, 2021 | Career Success, Resilience, Resilient Leader Way
When team members are drained, how can you as a physician leader muster up the enthusiasm for them to keep going? The opening scene from The Gladiator comes to mind. Russel Crowe’s character charges on his horse up and down the line of Roman soldiers firing them up...
Sep 27, 2021 | Leadership, Resilience, Resilient Leader Way
Early in the pandemic, one of my clients asked, “How can I be effective in my role and not deplete my energy”? As Division Chief at an academic medical system, a broad scope of people depended on her. Each person has different pandemic-related stressors. Leaders at...
Apr 14, 2021 | Read First, Resilience, Resilient Leader Way
Six months into the Covid-19 crisis, I was discussing topics for an upcoming leadership workshop for women surgeons. By that time, all healthcare workers had been under enormous strain for months. I was sharing with the chairperson which themes my coaching clients had...
Feb 26, 2021 | Leadership, Read First, Resilience
Early in the COVID crisis, I sensed my clients needed a new way to strengthen their leadership impact. Women leaders were tired, stressed, and needed a different kind of support to be effective and maintain their resilience. In my heart I believed women needed more...
Jan 15, 2021 | Career Success, Emotional Intelligence, Resilience
As we turn the last pages on 2020 we need to learn how to move on and reflect before we enter 2021. The year 2020 brought challenges not seen in an at least a generation. With these unexpected demands also came opportunity for much growth, as we adapted and came...