Coaching — Blog — Dr. Harjot Singh

What’s been discovered within the realm of physician (and other healthcare professionals) wellbeing, is startling, to say the least. The healthcare industry can be highly toxic, resulting in unprecedented levels of depression, suicide, suicidal ideations, physician turnover, presenteeism, and general dissatisfaction with work and life. But the condition that precedes these and is most readily associated with physician wellbeing is burnout. This, above all, is what we must be working against in our field.

4 Questions Physician Leaders Should Strive to Answer

Recently, we’ve discussed the lack of flow in many physician’s daily work life and how that lack of flow, over time, leads to a disengaged and dangerously burnt out team of physicians. We’ve also outlined 5 important mistakes for physician leaders to avoid when putting in place an engagement plan. In addition to avoiding mistakes, every physician leader striving to form an effective, engaged, and highly functioning team, must be asking the following four questions.

Lack of Accountability

But this isn’t just a “doctor problem”, it exists on the leadership side as well. Physician leaders are pressured to put new initiatives in place and check boxes that they’ve provided “programs” (there’s a vague word) for physician engagement. Rarely are they asked to collect and analyze data about how these programs perform or how they impact the team’s quality of life.

Lack of Connectivity

To recap briefly (if you’ve been following the whole time feel free to skip this opening paragraph), we’ve been spending this fall semester bravely wading through the many, varied and interwoven problems in the healthcare industry. More specifically, we’ve been looking at issues related to physician overwhelm and burnout as well as leadership’s responsibilities to work toward a solution.

Why Most Visions Don't Work

The word vision seems to be reverberating throughout the business and self-help world constantly this year. Vision boards. Vision summits. Vision statements. Vision vision vision. It can be a little much. And unfortunately, when a word is overused, it begins to lose it’s meaning, becoming watered-down and less potent with each article you ingest.

Leadership, Coaching, Success, HealthcareHarjot SinghMarch 24, 2020Leadership, Coaching, Success, Healthcare

How to Climb Higher and Engage your Team

As a healthcare leader, chances are your team is often less engaged than you’d like. No matter what new trend you try or system you implement, it still feels like people don’t take initiative or understand what you want from them. And likely, this is negatively affecting your performance as well, creating stress and overwhelm and culminating in a less-than-ideal work environment. This can lead to a sense of helplessness.

Leadership, Coaching, Success, HealthcareHarjot SinghMarch 3, 2020Leadership, Coaching, Success, Healthcare

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