Leadership Branding: How to Be Heard and Get Results with Authenticity
Women have something unique and powerful to contribute to healthcare leadership, but it can be tricky to be heard and get results in today's leadership culture without losing yourself. This is why it is important to understand leadership branding. Because there's this...
Women Leaders Are Key to Health Care Reform
Our healthcare system in the US is at a crossroads. As a physician, you know firsthand about the opportunities, and the serious challenges related to care access, quality, cost containment and infrastructure. My mission is that you know how important you are to the...
3 Dynamic Keys to Guide Your Next Career Move
A growing number of women physicians are pursuing their next career move to a leadership role. Although traditional career strategies can work well for men seeking new opportunities, those strategies often do not fit the situations and needs facing professional women...
How to Move Past Career Decisions Indecision
Do you have career decision analysis paralysis? Making important career decisions can be tough for physicians. The stakes are high and the consequences uncertain, making it easy to put off important choices. If you tell yourself you do your best work facing a...
Secret to Good Career Decision Making
Satisfaction in your career is more than a matter of luck. The daily decisions you make about your career will either elevate you or cause your dreams to sink. How do you make good decisions when there is not a road map to career success? The secret to good career...
3 Simple Phrases to Gain More Influence
Think of a specific situation where you are struggling to influence a resistant colleague, boss or spouse. You’ve used reason, facts, appealed to their emotions and still can’t convince them. Frustrating, right? Successful women physicians use these key phrases to...
5 Common Obstacles for Women of Influence
Warning: You May Be Causing People to Resist Your Ideas As a physician, you need to have influence to solve the challenges your patients and organizations face. Unfortunately, right now you may be unknowingly causing people to resist you and your message. There are...
How Physician Leaders Get More Dialogue in Team Meetings
As a physician leader, you have probably been in a team meeting where because of your role others did not speak up. The unfortunate side effect is you won't get all the best ideas on the table. What can you do to invite and engage leadership dialogue? Dr. Jane, a...
Rapidly Planning Effective Meetings
Physician leaders often say that one of the biggest differences between practicing medicine and leading a practice, department, or an organization is the way time is spent. Collaboration and teamwork require lots of effective meetings. A poorly planned meeting is...
The Power of Your Personal Leadership Brand
The women physicians with whom I worked at the March conference loved the ease and power of creating a personal leadership brand. As is often the case, when you return home, you may realize you have questions you didn’t think to ask. If you missed learning about...
The Key to Effective Leadership is Emotional Intelligence
As a female physician, you have been required to rely on the strength of your IQ. Making a diagnosis, doing calculations and delivering a convincing argument all require use of IQ. And when you want to lead a team or influence others to follow your lead, another kind...
Effective Leaders Focus on Values
Shift happens. Priorities change, funding is reallocated, and the project you’re leading is cancelled. Sometimes a change is so challenging, it feels like an obstacle to your career trajectory. People get confused and don’t know what to expect when priorities are...
“My mission is to help women healthcare leaders reach their highest potential.”
- Deborah Munhoz
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