Dear Community:When we reflect and gain awareness, we often create a goal or draft a change we hope to implement. There are many factors that can help
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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
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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
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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
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Why Coaching is the Ultimate Productivity Guru
Don’t listen to so-called productivity gurus. You know, the ones who speak in absolutes and tell us if we get up at 6:00 am and follow their morning
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How I Found the Missing Element
For the first couple months after reading Better, the word COACHING continually popped up around me. It piqued my curiosity, and I started thinking
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Leverage Your Strengths! – Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes – Episode 56
Jeff welcomes to the podcast general surgeon and certifiedGallup Strengths Coach, Dr. Laura Grimmer, MD. Now, more than ever, it is important
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Learning Acceptance and Meaning from Anticipatory Grief
The last few weeks have been very difficult for all of us. Like many of you, the Covid-19 pandemic has placed new stress on me individually. It takes
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Don’t Like Your Options? Reframe It.
In healthcare (and in life) we are presented with difficult challenges that don’t have optimal solutions. Most of the time, physicians are very good
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