How It Actually Works

If you’re feeling stuck or frustrated with what may now be an ongoing challenge, you’re probably asking yourself, “So why aren’t my current strategies working?”

The truth is, this journey requires passion, dispassion, and compassion all at the same time! The third is often the most challenging, be it for yourself or others (your staff, colleagues, the organization, your family, and of course, patients/customers).

The harder you work with unsatisfying results, the more cynical and demoralized you feel which causes you to disconnect from the sense of caring and dedication that made you want to go into medicine or health care in the first place.

How disheartening is that?

There are three keys to move from being stuck and dissatisfied with your current situation toward what you’d really like to see happen. What you need to do is:

1. Tune Up Your Mindset

First, you have to step back and get some fresh perspective on the situation. This restores a sense of control. Nothing new can happen until you do this. Although stepping out of the fray can seem scary, and like you’re losing control, it’s actually the only way to restore a sense of control and perspective. Once out of the fray, you see things differently, you see new possibilities. The breathing space allows you to reconnect with your passion and purpose and to create a vision for moving forward. If you’re getting banged in the rapids, you have to step out first, before figuring out the best way through.

2. Retread your Skill Set

In addition to a self-empowering mindset, you also need self-knowledge and competencies you most likely didn’t learn in medical or business training.

These include skills in areas like understanding motivation, influence, difficult conversations, team-building and collaboration, management and leadership, not to mention core skills like trusting your intuition and inner wisdom, and self-care. The competencies you need to be a good business manager, leader, and change agent are not the same as those you need to be a great clinician. And without knowing these competencies, you’ll keep running into the same brick walls.

And, although you didn’t necessarily learn these in your professional training, much of what you did learn contains the seeds of these new skills, so it doesn’t have to mean starting from scratch.

3. Make sure you’ve got the Compass, Roadmap, and Tools for the Journey!

In addition to clarity of purpose, vision, and intention, all of which help you identify your true North, there may be practical tools and processes you need to keep the vehicle carrying you to your destination moving forward at a steady clip.

Depending on your situation, these could include priority management skills, self-care practices, business & system tools, or group and team development processes.

Once you’ve got your mindset, compass, roadmap, and tools, you’re prepared for the journey and on your way to getting better results, being more fulfilled, making your best contribution, and regaining a sense of efficacy and well-being.

This is where stepping out of the fray allows you to go!

Our work together will include several, if not all, of these elements:

  • Clarity of purpose, vision, values
  • Strategic Intention
  • Self-knowledge gained through Self-reflection
  • Dialogue for transformation and learning
  • Learning through action & application
  • Effective business practices
  • Self-care
  • Spiritual connection and contribution

Want to learn more about specific ways I and my team can help you?

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