Your First Leadership Role? Start With These 8 Principles

10/03/2025 24 min Episodio 147
Your First Leadership Role? Start With These 8 Principles

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Leadership impacts everyone—whether you're steering an entire organization or simply navigating team dynamics. It’s an essential skill, yet it often feels elusive, even for experienced professionals. While every leadership challenge is unique, the core principles remain universal. In this episode, we break down eight critical leadership principles drawn from years of experience, hard lessons, conversations with seasoned experts, research, and coaching leaders at all levels. Plus, we share actionable strategies to help you refine your leadership, whether you're guiding thousands or leading a small team.Want more? Subscribe to our free newsletter, Doctoring Done Well. Every other Saturday, straight to your inbox—strategies to work smarter, lead better, and build a career that lasts.We Discuss:Don’t Worry About Leading, Worry About ListeningThis is Not Your Dumpster FireSlow Your RollYou Will Have to Be a Judge, Even When You Don’t Want to BeModel the ValuesWith Behavioral Issues, Build the Pathway, Not Just the ExpectationYou Don’t Know What You’re Doing—And That’s OKPeople Do Things for Their Reasons, Not YoursMentioned in this episode:UnBurnable - Our Cohort-Based Burnout Prevention and Cure CourseAs physician coaches, my partner, Scott Weingart, and I have noticed a pattern: some doctors are thoroughly burned out, and some are on the path to burnout. Almost all were shortchanged in their medical training, having been molded into excellent clinicians but given virtually no tools for retaining joy and equanimity throughout their careers.

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