Coaching in Healthcare
The complex and changing nature of healthcare makes professional development and growth a necessity and a challenge. Coaching may be the key to helping healthcare professionals navigate this tricky terrain and become curious, courageous, and energized in their pursuit of better care for patients.
In this issue of TD at Work, healthcare and coaching professionals DJ Mitsch, Mark Greenawald, and Cindi Ackrill explore how coaching can help medical personnel reframe their thinking to prevent burnout while achieving greater success in their work.
Among the resources in “Coaching in Healthcare,” you will find:
- tips for building a case for coaching
- sample coaching questions
- a coaching journey map
- descriptions of different types of coaching
- a self-coaching exercise.
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Full ProfileDarelyn “DJ” Mitsch’s personal mission is to rehumanize work with a specific focus in the healthcare industry. DJ is an award-winning game changer, pioneer of the coaching profession, and president of the Pyramid Resource Group, which partners with leaders and healthcare providers to ignite genius and unleash full potential in their organizations. The sixth president of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and a founding global board member, DJ helped drive ICF chapter development across borders. She founded the Healthcare Coaching Institute (HCI) in 2013 to advance coaching as a key leadership capability for life sciences. HCI is now partnering with Virginia Tech’s international outreach and healthcare innovation programs. Combining her leadership experience in broadcasting and love of sports, DJ designed the first corporate team-coaching process around a strategic game plan. Team Advantage guides teams to transcend habitual ways of working and create new ways of working.
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Full ProfileCindi Ackrill, MD, is a leadership coach who combines her experience in primary care with a decade of work in applied neuropsychology. She is certified in wellness coaching and leadership coaching.
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Full ProfileMark Greenawald, MD, is a family physician, physician leader, coach, speaker, educator, workshop facilitator, writer, and faculty member at the Healthcare Coaching Institute.
