Performance Improvement Archives

09/23/2021 jeffsmithmd

Coaching Skills Improve Critical Leadership Skills

How Coaching Supports Others’ Best. As physicians, we’re called to lead in many ways by team members, patients, and countless others during our

05/27/2021 jeffsmithmd

Coaching Is a Prospective, Non-Randomized Path to Achievement

Surgeons and physicians face a unique set of challenges stemming from the system in which we operate, our surgical specialty, moral injury, and more.

05/12/2021 Ryan Will MD

Cultivate Your Purpose

Medicine is challenging. The required skill set is difficult to become competent in, let alone master. That is one of the reasons I was attracted to

03/11/2021 jeffsmithmd

Failing to Change a Habit? Reframe It!

We all deal with negative self-talk in some form or another throughout our daily lives. I often notice negative self-talk creep into my mind when I’m

02/11/2021 jeffsmithmd

Very Good to Great

How High Performers Get Even Better When Tom Brady was taken in the 6th round of the NFL draft, no one thought he would one day be considered the

01/27/2021 jeffsmithmd

Practice Makes Perfect

As the old saying goes...practice makes perfect. Nahhhh. I don’t actually believe that. But I do strongly believe in PRACTICE. Let

10/15/2020 Muyibat Adelani MD

Coaching vs Mentoring

Most of us are familiar with mentoring from our own training experiences. Through medical school, residency, fellowship, and even in practice, many of

07/15/2020 jeffsmithmd

Redefining Physician Resilience

A recent study published in JAMA found that the physician population has higher resilience than the general population. We generally attribute a lack

06/30/2020 jeffsmithmd

See One, Do One, Coach One. A Powerful Self-Improvement Cycle

Reading an article in JACS recently got me thinking about how we improve all of our skills without the help of a teacher or mentor. Over the last 10