You’re surrounded by colleagues. So Why Does Medicine Feel So Isolating?
You’re surrounded by colleagues. So Why Does Medicine Feel So Isolating? Medicine is full of people. Wards, clinics, meetings, handovers. And yet ask almost any physician, at almost any career stage, and they’ll tell you the same thing: it can be a profoundly isolating profession. You’re surrounded by colleagues and still carrying things alone. The
Performing under pressure – at its very best
Coaching is derived from the corporate world. To be offered a coaching program means that you are being targeted as a potential leader. This is the same in healthcare. However, coaching in healthcare has taken some time to catch up to the corporate world. Capstan medical advisor, Sarah Dalton, joins Liverpool Medicine Ground Rounds to
Finding the right coach
Deciding how and when to engage a professional coach may not feel straight forward. Your readiness to invest the time and effort to a coaching program might be triggered by one of several work or career crossroads. Are you looking to expand your leadership capabilities, improve your performance under pressure, or reassess your career direction?
Goal setting kept simple
We continuously choose our priorities, what we focus our time and energy on and what we want to achieve. We may be conscious of the direction and magnitude of our priorities, our choices, the effort, and the opportunity costs. Or we may not. The invitation to be more intentional about where and how you direct
Coaching in healthcare – Why should you give it a try?
To be offered a professional coaching program in the corporate sector is to be valued and targeted as a potential or already high-performing individual contributor or leader. The potential for the same level of professional development investment in professional coaching, to further support and enable clinicians and other health care professionals, is slowly being realised.
Professional coaching and the Australian healthcare sector
Professional coaching in the Australian healthcare sector is still relatively new. Progressive clinicians and healthcare professionals in the United States and the United Kingdom are more likely to engage professional coaching than their Australian peers, and the benefits that come from being coached may not be as well understood in Australia. When most people hear
