Medical Staff
Medical staff leaders bring enormous value with the clinical expertise and experience that they possess. However, optimizing success as a medical staff leader requires integrating the best attributes of the clinician with the core competencies of effective leadership.
This is particularly difficult as most medical staff leaders do not have formal leadership training, have not held many prior leadership positions, and typically cycle every 2 to 3 years. Chimera Leadership Group has executive coaching and leadership development programs designed specifically to support medical staff leaders in reaching their full potential while making their tenure as medical staff leaders more fulfilling and enjoyable.
Executive Coaching
Whether you are a new medical staff leader, transitioning leadership roles, or an experienced leader seeking continued improvement, executive coaching can be one of the most powerful tools at your disposal. Coaches are thought partners, accountability partners, and sometimes simply sounding boards.
Best Practice
Coaching has been identified as a best practice and potentially the most important tool in the development of successful physician leaders.
Support and Challenge
Coaches can facilitate the development of leadership competencies for physician leaders while also supporting and/or challenging the physician leader as needed. Building and maintaining trust is the foundation of our work just as it is in clinical medicine.
Subject Matter Expertise
Physician leaders have expressed a strong desire for subject matter expertise mentorship in addition to coaching. Chimera Leadership Group’s coaches are uniquely qualified to deliver exactly this with executive coaching expertise AND health care leadership experience.
Executive Coaching Process
The Chimera Leadership Group (CLG) coaching process for medical staff leaders is designed to support medical staff presidents and other leaders in rapidly developing comfort with leadership competencies. As a remedy to the isolation felt by many medical staff leaders, our executive coaches will also serve as a thought and accountability partner by first building trust in the coaching relationship. The external nature of CLG coaches allows objectivity and confidentiality that is impossible with an internal resource.
Analysis
- Expectation and goal setting
- Exploring of strengths and opportunities
- Reviewing external feedback
- Identification and discussion of client values
- Situational description and analysis
Interpretation
- Testing assumptions
- Re-affirming goals
- Exploring options
- Action plan creation
Execution
- Implementing plan
- Reviewing results of actions
- Evaluating sustainability
- Evolving and building on tactics
Leadership Development
The training of a physician is designed to create clinical competence. These clinical competencies need to be augmented with leadership competencies. Chimera leadership experts deliver a comprehensive suite of developmental tools such as didactics and workshops to individuals or teams. The content is tailored to physician leaders and can be customized to the needs of your organization. Designed by physician leaders for physician leaders, Chimera leadership development sessions are engaging, actionable, and impactful.
Working with Hospital Administration
Building Influence
Crucial Conversations
Managing Change
Emotional Intelligence
Engaging Different Specialties
Psychology of Physician Leaders
Professionalism Challenges
Communication
High Performing Teams
Leadership Team Optimization
Chimera Leadership Group creates development programs customized to optimize your medical staff leadership team and the individual team members. Programs consist of skills development in the team setting, as well as professional development for individual leaders and executive leadership coaching. All programs and coaching are provided by skilled and experienced professionals.
Workshops
- Models of team leadership, building team trust, understanding the elements of team effectiveness
- Mission, vision, values, and methods for guiding decision making
- Communication and conflict for the benefit of the team and organization
- Role clarity and leveraging differences
- Leadership versatility and embracing discomfort
- Sharing accountability, empowering leadership, boosting commitment
Coaching and Facilitation
- Individual executive leadership coaching
- Leadership team coaching
- Facilitation of team meetings
- Before and after assessment of team and leader effectiveness
Assessments
Chimera Leadership Group utilizes a variety of validated assessments designed to meet the needs of the client. Based on years of experience and practical application, we have chosen the DISC profile as our core assessment tool. As a Wiley Everything DiSC® certified facilitator and authorized partner, CLG offers a suite of Everything DiSC® assessments, education, and facilitation to supercharge your leadership.
Retreat Planning, Facilitation, and Speaking
Chimera Leadership Group can assist you in designing medical staff leadership retreats which are engaging, educational, and entertaining. Our experienced staff will partner with you to select presentations, activities, and/or workshops which address your organization’s specific needs. We can also provide facilitators and speakers to ensure a successful retreat.