Succeeding in the Face of Resistance
At the request of her staff, Dr. Sara Teal, medical director, negotiated change in her work schedule. After making the case and getting approval from administration, she shared the good news with staff, only to be met with resistance. Frustrated and confused, she...
Using Your Power to Get Desired Results
Power is the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Action (1834-1902) thought, “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Nevertheless, power can be directed for...
How to Stimulate Change
Are people inherently resistant to change? If so, we would not go to school, change jobs, date, or have children. We not only don’t resist change, but also devote a lot of time and energy initiating change. Every waking hour, we are engaged in change - our survival...
How to Use Your Power to Get the Results You Really Want
Using Your Power to Get Desired Results Power is the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Action (1834-1902) thought, “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”...
Female Physicians Speak Out
According to research by the international, non-profit organization, Catalyst, Fortune 500 companies with more than three female physicians on their Board of Directors achieved superior sales and higher return on equity and net profits. Although women are beginning to...
Who is the Modern Physician?
Healthcare and the practice of medicine are changing dramatically on multiple fronts. Discussion of these challenges was a focus of physicians and other thought-leaders gathered in Las Vegas for the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Physician...
Feelings Reveal Your Desires
Change Is Happening Are you experiencing a change, or know you need to change, but feel conflicted? When my husband interviewed for an out-of state job, my immediate responses were confusion and fear. How will we stay emotionally connected? Am I willing to move? Are...
Change Your Story, Change Your Life
Key challenges to physicians include low reimbursement, loss of autonomy, and patient overload. As these issues are unlikely to change any time soon, there is high dissatisfaction among physicians. However, the way we process issues can change today. We all have...
How to Be Assertive … Without Alienating Your Colleagues
Asking for what you want—and setting boundaries around what you don’t want—is a key life skill. Are you challenged to ask for what you want? Or so enthusiastic to practice this skill, that you over-do assertiveness and end up with colleagues who shut down, get angry...
Don’t make a New Year’s Resolution, yet…
Not until you know what you really want and why it is important to you. The biggest problem with New Year's Resolutions is that too often we base them on guilt or what others think we should resolve to do. Resolutions based on what other people value are doomed to...
How Being a Leader Can Be Easier
Many physicians are seeing the need and accepting the role of leadership responsibilities. Previously, these doctors have seen colleagues struggle in these roles or have struggled themselves. Although the future of healthcare depends on good physician leadership, the...
Supporting the Community of Women Physicians
“It feels like a war zone out here. I am just trying to survive.” “I don’t know the woman physician I am referring to and would like to.” The stress and desire of women physicians, in private practice and as hospital employees in Lane County, is reflected in these...
“My mission is to help women healthcare leaders reach their highest potential.”
- Deborah Munhoz
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