Monday, July 27, 2015

Translating “Intellectual Capital” into “Career Capital”--What a Coach Can Do for You


By Janet Bickel
“We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.”—Mary Catherine Bateson

“Success comes to people who know themselves, learn how to manage and develop themselves, and know how and when to change the work they do.”--Peter Drucker

The careers of all physicians represent an enormous personal (and often public) investment. Yet many find themselves ill-equipped to navigate the complex systems characteristic of medicine today and are thus unable to fully capitalize on this investment in terms of job satisfaction or achieving their potential as leaders.

Translating “intellectual capital” into “career capital” requires many skills not touched upon during medical school or post-graduate training. Taking effective responsibility for your own career now includes multiple systems and communications skills—that is team-building, bridging numerous kinds of differences, addressing conflicts with sensitivity as they arise, hiring and delegating, negotiating, financial management, and handling chronic tensions between personal needs and organizational realities.

Because surgeons work under such demanding conditions and time pressures, many do not develop these skills on the job. Moreover as they take on more responsibilities, some trusted tendencies (e.g. self-reliance, hard-driving perfectionism) can become impediments in such key areas as collaborating, delegating, and team-building.

Mentors often provide critical career guidance but may be unavailable when most needed or may themselves be ineffective in key areas or may, like your boss, have a stake in you selecting a particular course of action.

Enhancing current and future performance

For these reasons, hiring a coach can be a wise investment. A staple of leadership development in the corporate world, coaching has been shown to increase the capabilities of motivated professionals particularly in accomplishing objectives, managing conflicting demands and improving collaborations.

The professional coaching relationship is a confidential alliance tailored to the client’s needs and goals. Outsourced suppliers of candor and individualized attention, a coach encourages insights into blindspots and defense mechanisms; such supportive feedback spurs personal and professional growth. The coaching partnership creates a framework for incubating growth in the capacity for objectivity and mental complexity. Coaches usually assist their clients in seeking and incorporating feedback on interpersonal and communication skills in order to close the gap between their excellent intentions and the actual impact they're having. Coaching can also focus on exploring alternative career options, navigating a transition, maximizing success in a new role, building a high functioning team, and adding power to communications. This relationship creates a safe exploratory, energy-producing space such that you see your motivations and assumptions with greater clarity and extract more meaningful lessons from your experiences.

Coaching generally occurs through a combination of face-to-face and telephone meetings. The nature of the coaching goals and the client’s progress determine the frequency of coaching sessions, and the duration of the coaching relationship. Coaches generally stay available to their clients by email or telephone between scheduled meetings.

Deciding whether to invest

Common “tipping points” for seeking a coach include acquiring major new responsibilities, deciding to pursue a leadership position, or hitting an organizational or interpersonal “wall.”

To identify possible coaches, you might obtain recommendations from colleagues or a Human Resources Office or Faculty Affairs Dean who may have lists of vetted local and non-local coaches.  You may prefer to work with a local coach to facilitate face-to-face sessions, or you may be comfortable connecting primarily via phone or Skype. A web search may uncover a coach who is a good fit but vetting can be difficult and time-consuming. Indicators of a coach that is a good fit include: 1) understanding the client’s field and environment with some grasp of their day-to-day challenges; 2) meeting the client “where she is” in terms of personality and needs; and 3) maintaining strict confidentiality regarding the relationship.

Deciding whether to invest in coaching needs to be weighed against other demands on your time and resources. If you're on overload and don't see how you can set aside time for the work, then perhaps this is not the time (even though a coach can help you get your schedule under control). With regard to affordability, check to see if you have access to a professional development account that can pay for coaching. Or if you've recently acquired new responsibilities (especially if no new resources have come along with the work), you may be able to persuade your boss that your department should cover the cost of your developing the required new skills. Each coach charges and handles payment differently, so this is important to discuss up front. When interviewing possible coaches, feel free to raise any question you have related to how they work; there are no dumb questions here!

In Conclusion

The speed and complexities of change and competition mean both more opportunities to grow and more ways for careers to derail. To fully develop your potential and capitalize on your substantial investment in your education, you owe it to yourself to consider what supports would serve you.  As in athletics, professionals with superior competencies and dedication are more likely to work with a coach than amateurs—that is, it’s more a signal of ability than disability.


Janet is a nationally recognized expert in faculty, career and leadership development with 40 years of experience in academic medicine and science. During the 25 years prior to creating her own business, Janet held positions of increasing national leadership at the Association of American Medical Colleges, including Associate Vice President for Medical School Affairs. She established an Office of Women in Medicine of national repute, including leadership development programs that have stimulated the careers of thousands of women physicians and scientists. She also led AAMC’s first programs in faculty affairs and in student professionalism. Janet continues to publish broadly, with over 60 peer-reviewed articles and two books. www.janetbickel.com



41 comments:

  1. Impressive list - I found it very helpful. Engage with your audience in the most economical way by opting Surgeons Mailing list & Email list. Generate leads through email marketing, direct mailing and through telemarketing campaigns.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Really this article contains huge amount of information. I think it would be helpful for all. Thank you for sharing with us. SEO Jobs in Hyderabad

    ReplyDelete
  3. There is a reason they call it the "practice of medicine." Just like a sports pro, a surgeon's abilities improve with practice and experience.

    Here you can find the World's Best Surgeons

    ReplyDelete
  4. Hi,
    Nice blog, Our database can help you to target prospects to get high response rates and guaranteed results. Now reach and engage with your targeted audience by Surgeons Email List and stay connected with Surgeons in USA, Canada, UK, Australia and Europe.

    ReplyDelete
  5. It’s amazing in support of me to have a site, which is useful in support of my know-how. thanks admin|, you surely come with remarkable articles. Cheers for sharing your website page.Excellent blog here...

    Web Designing Training in Chennai

    Java Training in Chennai

    ReplyDelete
  6. Thanks for this great post!- This provides good insight. You might also be interested to know more about generating more leads and getting the right intelligence to engage prospects. E-Health Care Lists E-Health Care Lists implements new lead gen ideas and strategies for generating more leads and targeting the right leads and accounts.E-Health Care Lists is one of the global suppliers of healthcare mailing list & email list.Marketing to the healthcare industry, reaching the doctors and other healthcare decision makers is often an impossibletask.Surgeons Mailing list & Email list

    ReplyDelete
  7. When you put a great deal of diligent work into one objective and you accomplish it, that is a better than average feeling.
    Exams4sure is the best source to get high checks in your Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional AWS Solution Architect Professional Exam.
    We have precise AWS Solution Architect Professional Questions Answers with 100% passing certification.
    We have faith in quality we know how to fulfill our customers. We give you AWS Solution Architect Professional Dumps to the point and refreshed.
    Customers can get 3 months free updates. AWS Solution Architect Professional Test Engine to practice and improve your learning and rehearsing aptitudes.
    You can without much of a stretch get demo AWS Solution Architect Professional Braindumps before buy.
    Don't hesitate to get some information about Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional AWS Solution Architect Professional Exam.
    Our visit bolster accessible every minute of every day for you. Visit us today and get 20% markdown on AWS Solution Architect Professional Exam Questions by utilizing this coupon code.

    ReplyDelete
  8. I have read this post. collection of post is a nice one. Get more knowledge on AWS Online Course

    ReplyDelete
  9. http://chatsworthillinoismemories.blogspot.com/2014/08/obit-of-harry-keith-cluts.htmlPrioritizing & making anything smooth always sense the best in any ecosystem. To protect along with run the entire process flows for all mentioned activities works properly. If someone go by the prescribed way then proper research plus authenticity is needed to proof the scenario. Substantial mechanism always shows the true path to make the documents or finished products perfect.

    ReplyDelete

  10. Awesome blog. It was very informative. I would like to appreciate you. Keep updated like this best sap simple finance online training institute in hyderabad

    ReplyDelete
  11. Worthful aws tutorial. Appreciate a lot for taking up the pain to write such a quality content on aws tutorial. Just now I watched this similar aws tutorial and I think this will enhance the knowledge of other visitors for sureAws training in hyderabad

    ReplyDelete
  12. QuickBooks Support Phone Number serving a number of clients day by day, very conceivable you will hand up or need to trust that long time will interface with the Help Desk group . As indicated by statics discharged by the Bing and Google search bits of knowledge in excess of 50,000 individuals looking through the web to discover the QuickBooks Enterprise Tech Support Number every day and in excess of 2,000 quarries identified with Quickbooks issues and errors .

    ReplyDelete
  13. I like this topic.This site has lots of advantage.I found many interesting things from this site. It helps me in many ways.Thanks for posting this again.
    BCOM 1st, 2nd & Final Year TimeTable 2020
    Agra University BCom 1st, 2nd & Final Year Time Table 2020
    Allahabad University BCom 1st, 2nd & Final Time Table 2020

    ReplyDelete
  14. Great post, thank you so much for sharing this useful post.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Very informative blog and useful article thank you for sharing with us, keep posting learn more about aws with cloud computing.
    By Cognex offers AWS Training in chennai, microsoft azure training in chennai, prince2 foundation training in chennai

    ReplyDelete
  16. This is the exact information I am been searching for, Thanks for sharing the required infos with the clear update and required points. To appreciate this I like to share some useful information.
    Java Training in Chennai

    Java Training in Velachery

    Java Training in Tambaram

    Java Training in Porur

    Java Training in OMR

    Java Training in Annanagar



    ReplyDelete
  17. I've read this post and if I could I desire to suggest you some interesting things or suggestions. Perhaps you could write next articles referring to this article. I want to read more things about it!
    Data Science courses

    ReplyDelete

  18. It's really nice and meaningful. it's a really cool blog. Linking is a very useful thing.you have really helped lots of people who visit blogs and provide them useful information.
    Best Digital Marketing Courses in Hyderabad

    ReplyDelete
  19. Thank You for sharing this informative article.

    https://web30india.com/

    ReplyDelete
  20. Great Information thanks for it great job...We follow this post forever...





    ReplyDelete
  21. This site helps to clear your all query. bsc 3rd year time table 2021
    BA 3rd Year Time Table 2021 This is really worth reading. nice informative article.

    ReplyDelete
  22. if ur interested in learning AWS course please visit our website
    AWS Training in Hyderabad

    ReplyDelete
  23. The AWS certification course has become the need of the hour for freshers, IT professionals, or young entrepreneurs. AWS is one of the largest global cloud platforms that aids in hosting and managing company services on the internet. It was conceived in the year 2006 to service the clients in the best way possible by offering customized IT infrastructure. Due to its robustness, Digital Nest added AWS training in Hyderabad under the umbrella of other courses.

    ReplyDelete
  24. Data Science Training in Hyderabad program by AI Patasala, where you can learn practical knowledge with real-time experience.
    Data Science Institute in Hyderabad

    ReplyDelete
  25. Impressive. Your story always bring hope and new energy. Keep up the good work. Data Science Course in Chennai

    ReplyDelete
  26. Such a nice article, top 10 aws training institues in hyderabad which offers the best training in best aws training institute in which you can choose an institute for salesforce training as per your requirements and your interest in which it can either be online or offline

    ReplyDelete
  27. "If you are also one of them and want to know what the companies demand from the data scientists to do in their organization, you have come to the right place.data science course in kolkata"

    ReplyDelete
  28. Edius Pro 9 Crack software free download is non-linear video editing software which transforms ordinary looking movies into professional one .Edius Dongle Crack Software

    ReplyDelete
  29. We have tried to put together Merry Christmas greetings and New Year wishes to help you send festive messages to your family and friends.
    Sweet Merry Christmas Messages/a>

    ReplyDelete
  30. Thank you for sharing such valuable information.

    The detailed comparison of various training platforms and courses has given a clear roadmap to kickstart your journey with AWS Course

    ReplyDelete