BMJ Leader publishes my third peer-reviewed coaching evidence article in the last 12 months
This week saw the second cohort of my EMCC Certified Foundation Coaching Certificate participants complete the taught part of their 2 day coaching skills course. It was wonderful to see such talented medical and public health leaders and educators grow in confidence and skill!
I mentioned recently that I would share some of the key findings from my paper on the Health Leader-as-Coach, so here they are: you can read all three articles here.
How the ‘Health Leader-as-Coach’ benefits health leaders, their teams, peers, organisation and the system
‘The challenges faced by health care and public health providers around the world remain complex and challenging.
Clinical leaders who develop coaching skills in their vocational roles and consciously choose when to use them as ‘Leader-as-Coach’, are likely to enhance their own effectiveness, the effectiveness of others (including direct reports, teams, appraisees, mentees, educational supervisees, peers, extended team members, peers and colleagues), and to contribute to improved outcomes for the organisation and wider system.
For this to happen, the clinical ‘Leader-as-coach’ requires training in coaching skills in the context of their vocational roles and professional contexts; these skills are both similar and different from the skills of professional coaches.
The clinical ‘Leader-as-coach’ also requires the ability to influence the culture of the organisation, and a supportive organisational culture, to enable them to work in this way. Healthcare and public health organisations who wish to enhance their effectiveness would benefit from a strategic approach to developing a ‘pro-coaching culture’ as part of their wider organisational or system strategy.
While there is clearly a need for leadership development programmes and external coaching to develop senior clinical leaders who are able to lead in the complex environments ahead, the many thousands of formal and informal conversations (whether in person, through email, text messages, meetings, and other forms of communication) which take place by individuals and leaders and their teams, organisations, and/or a systems on a daily basis in clinical and population health environments could all benefit from being more ‘coaching orientated’ in order to positively impact health outcomes rapidly and at scale.’
Day FJ. BMJ Leader Published Online First: [21.3.24]. doi:10.1136/leader-2023-000870
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