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Performance Coaching: Empowering Your Success in Interviews and Exams

Our team of coaches, a mix of doctors with coach-specific training and professional coaches experienced performance coaches, are pleased to have helped clients secure the very competitive spaces in College specialist training programs, enabling junior doctors pass specialist exams including for some, on their last attempts, as well as building capability and confidence for healthcare leaders succeed in high stake job interviews.

Testimonials

100% of the doctors who engaged Capstan Partners for performance coaching and completed their post-program evaluation were successful in achieving their outcomes whether that be passing their clinical exam, being accepted into their training program or job interview.

“Definitely glad I did it. Online, coach was also an MD, she was very practical, it really helped me when I was losing my mind”
“Overall excellent experience”
“It has been a 5 star experience to say the least with Rita's performance coaching throughout my specialist exam preparation. Rita has been incredible and supportive throughout the entire journey so thank you again Rita!”
“I liked having the sessions virtual as it was more convenient and felt more comfortable as well.”
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Preparing for specialist training, job interviews and clinical exams can be an overwhelming experience. In fact often accompanied by unproductive levels of stress and anxiety. However, with coaching support, clinicians and healthcare workers can and do transform these challenges into opportunities for growth and success. Performance coaching offers a structured and effective approach to help clinicians and healthcare workers navigate through the high stakes process. Addressing three key factors that impact unhelpful levels of stress and anxiety, therefore influencing preparation and performance becomes an important part of the solution focus enabled by coaching.

Read more about stress and anxiety and three common themes that emerge from my twenty (plus!) years of performance coaching. 

Risks of Unhelpful Levels of Stress and Anxiety

Do you find yourself over-thinking, over-aroused, tense, and with brain fog?

Unmanaged stress and anxiety can have detrimental effects on interview and exam performance. Excessive levels of stress is likely to impair cognitive function, leading to difficulty in thinking clearly, recalling information, and problem-solving. 

Are you noticing unusually more sweatiness, a sense of loss of control, and feel your heart pounding?

Anxiety can hinder concentration, decision-making abilities and limits effective communication especially during crucial moments. Moreover, persistent anxiety can negatively impact overall mental and physical well-being, eating away at your confidence and motivation.

Three themes often addressed in performance coaching

Embed higher levels of cognitive functioning and better strategies for successful preparation and outcomes. You can think more clearly, plan and follow through on effective study and preparation techniques, practice new memory enhancement methods, and time management skills. Better critical thinking, problem-solving, and help in building mental resilience, allows clinicians and healthcare leaders to approach and perform interviews and exams with clarity and confidence.

The socio-emotive aspects of performance coaching focuses on managing emotions and building self-belief. Insights often help clinicians and healthcare workers recognise and manage their inner-critic, reduce anxiety and give power to their inner-coach! Have a safe space to purge automatic negative thoughts, develop a positive mindset and boost self-belief, whilst leveraging a healthy and positive dose performance-related stress. What often emerges are more effective communication skills, so that you can express yourself coherently and confidently and build rapport during interviews and exams.

Behaviours play a huge role in interview and exam preparation and success. Developing effective preparation strategies, such as setting realistic goals, creating study/preparation schedules, and implementing accountability measures, practicing mock interview/exam questions, refining presentation skills, and seeking constructive feedback are all important. By addressing behavioural factors, you can approach interview and exam preparations, and the high-stakes on-the-day event with a structured and disciplined approach that you have decided works for you.

Why performance coaching works

Performance coaching is likely to take you from the fear zone to the growth zone by addressing the factors that you decide are important enablers of your success. 

The trusted relationship between you and your coach provides a personalised approach, a psychologically safe place and a supportive environment to learn and grow, that encourages self-reflection, continuing existing habits that have served you well, as well as embedding new, helpful habits, in ways you decide are the priorities. 

Coaching instils a sense of accountability and motivation too, helping you stay focused, enhancing self-awareness, confidence, and resilience, fostering a positive mindset and improving overall performance.

If not now then when?Performance coaching is available virtually with three, one hour sessions. Obligation free Expressions of Interest, with more information, T&Cs and fees detail available now.

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