How Healthcare Leaders Can Build Resiliency Within Their Organizations
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...
How to Market Yourself: The Essential Art of Self-Promotion
In general, women leaders tend to navigate toward working hard, consensus building, and being a part of the team as opposed to promoting themselves within their organization to obtain social capital and gain advancement. This is one reason there are fewer women in key...
Mentoring: Making Sure It Happens In Healthcare
For most healthcare leaders, the pandemic required focusing only on the challenges at hand and many programs considered non-essential were paused. The California Association of Healthcare Leaders recognizes the ongoing need to develop our leaders and continues to...
Use Authentic Leadership to Energize Committees and Teams
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...
Boost Your Energy Reserves To Lead With Resiliency
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...
Healthcare Leadership Barriers Women Face and How To Overcome Them
Something is going wrong with female leadership in healthcare. Women make up 70% of the worldwide healthcare staff. This makes the healthcare sector one of the few sectors that hire more women than men. Even though 7 out of 10 women hold jobs in this sector, women...
Setting Boundaries Worksheet: Develop More Resilience and Impact
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...
Why Crafting a Leadership Brand is Essential for Physician Leaders
When we think of successful brands, clear associations come to mind. For example, an SUV brand might be associated with ruggedness, family, safety, a love of the outdoors, or even a fondness for dogs. These themes and connections are cultivated through images,...
A Decision-Making Process for Resilient Physician Leaders
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...
How To Move On From 2020 Toward Creativity And Fulfillment In 2021
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...
How a newly promoted leader is navigating the COVID crisis with resilience
Melissa had just received the biggest promotion of her long career at a teaching hospital when she hired me as her coach to help her “be her best” leader She was motivated and showed resilience to invest in herself because of the impact she would have at this higher...
How Women Surgeons Boosted Engagement and Expanded Membership with the Resilient Leader Way Approach to the Strategic Planning Process
How the Association of Women Surgeons Boosted Engagement and Expanded Membership with the Resilient Leader Way Approach to the Strategic Planning Process Background Dr. Sareh Parangi, President of the Association of Women Surgeons, was concerned that the organization...
“My mission is to help women healthcare leaders reach their highest potential.”
- Deborah Munhoz