What is Physician Coaching?
- Are you fed up or burned out, or just feeling you’re reaching that point?
- Are you losing a lot of money in your practice?
- Have you been experiencing a lot of friction with colleagues, staff members or even family members?
- Do you feel you are not maximizing your career as a physician?
Ignoring issues like these won’t make them go away. Instead they tend to grow bigger and bigger, and they constantly ask for your attention and energy until a major crisis happens.
Are you waiting for this major crisis now or are you ready to resolve / improve the situation?
If you didn’t have to worry about stress, money issues, or relationship issues anymore, how much more effective and fulfilled could you be as a physician?
Okay, so you want to sign up for a CME program or workshop that addresses your situation?
Reality is, training all by itself doesn’t work long term. Here’s why…
Let’s say you go to a seminar or leadership conference and you get all fired up. You can’t wait to get to your office and put the learning into action – right?
When you get home distractions begin to creep in. You see the piles of paper on your desk, your pager is ringing off the hook, the office manager bombards you with a new issue …. Pretty soon you find yourself focusing more on new problems and concerns; after a short while, the seminar becomes a faded memory.
Sounds familiar?
Coaching ends that cycle and allows you to make improvements, one step at a time.
A study by the International Personnel Management Association: Public Personnel Management compared the success of training alone with training plus coaching where they revealed that training alone increases productivity by 22.4% while training reinforced with coaching increases productivity by 88%.
Seeking an appropriate course of action can make the difference in the outcome. Receiving expert coaching can cut your problem resolution time in half and accelerate your success and personal well-being. These services do not offer counseling or psychotherapy. Instead, professional executive coaching means receiving expert advise on not only managing demanding work schedules and huge responsibilities, but also receiving guidance on how to leverage your leadership and interpersonal skills with your staff.
The benefits of these services for the physician include:
- Improving performance and personal fulfillment
- Balancing between work schedules and huge responsibilities
- Being in sync with one’s values, vision, talents and strengths
- Controlling the stress
- Improving communication
- Creating a more profitable practice
You may be wondering if you would benefit from coaching. Coaching can address a variety of issues and below you find a brief outline of common situations that docs faced before they worked with a coach:
- Physicians who truly love medicine but they are struggling to maintain a sense of well-being and personal fulfillment.
- Physicians who have a lot of interpersonal conflicts with staff members and colleagues. They have been told that their behavior is “rough” and sometimes disruptive and they need to “straighten out” if they want to stay.
- Physicians who feel dissatisfied with the financial output of their practice. They are open to explore additional streams of income and services.
- Physicians who have lost the excitement and love for medicine but are willing to do the work to gain it back.
- Physicians who feel tired and stressed due to pending medical malpractice lawsuits.
- Physicians who feel constantly stressed out, overwhelmed, torn between responsibilities and commitments. They know that they have to find a different way of living if they want to stay in their vocation.
