Balanced Physician Coaching Program

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	Results of Working With a Coach The outcomes that clients most often attribute to their coaching are a higher level of self-awareness and self-confidence, a more balanced life, smarter goal-setting and lower stress levels. Clients reported experiencing the following outcomes as a result of working with a coach: Self-awareness: 67.6% Setting better goals: 62.4% More balanced life: 60.5% Lower stress levels: 57.1% Self-discovery: 52.9% Self-confidence: 52.4% Improvement in quality of life: 43.3% Enhanced communication skills: 39.5% Project completion: 35.7% Health or fitness improvement: 33.8% Better relationship w/ boss, co-workers: 33.3% Better family relationship(s): 33.3% Increased energy: 31.9% More fun: 31.9% More income: 25.7% Stopped a bad habit: 25.7% Change in career: 24.3% More free time: 22.9% Increased profitability of business: 17.1% Other: 15.3% Started new business: 12.9% Empowered employees: 11.0% Business turn around: 09.0% Study by the ICF

What is Coaching?

Many people are familiar with the coach approach in sport.
The coach is the person that is standing on the outside line challeging, guiding, supporting the players and giving directions to:

learn a new sport or master the skills of the sport
perform better than ever before
play cooperatively in the team and backup their players
win the game

More and more, physicians and physician leaders are realizing while they are investing thousands of dollars into their continuing medical education, they also need to invest in their personal and interpersonal development. One of the most effective ways for physicians to invest in themselves is through the use of coaching.


	Coaching in healthcare has similar fundamental principles as sports coaching: Coaching is a forward-thinking, goal-oriented, timely limited, confidential, collaborative and action-oriented partnership between a coach and the person being coached to: perform better work cooperatively with other team members maximize resources master the skills of life and business win the game that the person being coached plays Not long ago, many healthcare providers may have considered the use of a coach as a sign of weakness. However, within the last two to three years, more and more physicians recognize coaching as a professional development tool that even the highest and most efficient performers use. Some people call it executive coaching, business coaching, life coaching or physician coaching; it doesn't matter as much what you call it but rather what results you achieve through coaching. Therefore we left the description to a rather generic term.


	Let's take a closer look at the definition: Forward-thinking: In coaching we look at the presence and we look at the future that you want to create and we work on bridging the gap and making incremental improvements. Goal-oriented: Coaching is impossible or useless without goals. They provide the focus, direction and measurable outcome. Timely limited: Coaching relationships can range anywhere from 3 months up to 18 months depending on the size of goals and the commitment of the person being coached. Confidential: All information shared in a coaching conversation are confidential. Period. Collaborative: The coach and the person being coached work side by side on equal terms. Action-oriented: Coaching conversations without action are just that - a nice conversation. The magic of coaching happens when the person being coached gets challenged and implements the strategies and skills discussed in the coaching session.


	Some Statistics about Coaching: Kirkpatrick’s model and methodologies for evaluating effectiveness of training does work for certain situations and has been a standard in the training industry for decades. New research has overwhelmingly determined that coaching individuals on what they learned during training expediently improves their retention, implementation and sustainability back on the job. Coaches work with the individual to help them apply skills learned and focus on changing behaviors that improve performance. A recent independent study posted in the Training and Development Journal found that no matter how good the training is – without good coaching - 87¢ of every $1.00 spent is wasted. Without coaching - only 22% of what was learned was retained over time. When the participants received coaching - 88% of what they learned was retained because they were coached on how to apply new behaviors and skills back on the job. This means without coaching – 66% of what they learned was lost! - American Society of Training and Development A survey conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in the U.K. discovered organizations use coaching to: Improve individual performance Deal with under performance Improve productivity Enhance career planning/personal development Grow future senior staff Foster a culture of learning and development Motivate staff


	Our coaches are experienced professionals who bring a diverse set of skills and resources to the coaching experience. We partner with physicians, physician leaders, practice managers and their staff in a collaboration and exploration process of critical leadership and personal development principles including but not limited to self-management, success principles, interpersonal skills, business concepts and expanded self-awareness. Our highest goal is to create a safe and constructive coaching environment where physicians feel free to explore new ideas, concepts and approaches. We support them by providing feedback about performance, behaviors and skills. In this process we don't only look at the professional environment but also at the personal life; after all, they are interdependent and our goal is for our clients that they are not only making advancements in their professional life but also in their personal life.


	Does that sound intriguing to you? Coaching is really best understood when you can experience it. Therefore we offer all of our prospect clients a complimentary consultation to determine whether it is the best tool for them to make rapid and meaningful improvements in their life and practice. You may call us anytime at 770-428-2334 to set up your preliminary consultation.