LEAD Program
Physician leaders need two sources of information to be successful: A
mentor who makes sure that they have the required knowledge and skills of
leadership as well as a coach who will use an indirect, Socratic method to
help you formulate and think through your options for leading your
organization. Traditionally, these have been separate processes; coaches
focus purely on process and do not offer operational advice, while mentors
focus on ensuring that you have the skills and knowledge you need to know
to be successful.
While each of these roles can exist separately, the WSMA's new Leadership
Enhancement and Development, or LEAD, Program provides an integrated model
which combines both. The LEAD Program is, at heart, a coaching process
that tactically injects operational mentorship advice when appropriate to
accelerate your learning. The coaches are both traditional coaches as well
as mentors with considerable operational experience. They have agreed to
follow a model where they will stay in their indirect coaching role until
they detect a knowledge or skill gap. They will then briefly switch to a
mentorship role until both of you are convinced that the missing knowledge
or skill is understood or mastered, and then they will immediately revert
to the indirect process of coaching, allowing you to resume control of
your learning and decision-making.
Program details
This program is somewhat different than the leadership coaching you may
have experienced in the past. The key to this design is
integrated coaching and mentoring: Flexibly moving between the
two modalities as needed so that you can achieve the largest effect in a
reasonable amount of time.
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Once we set a date for our first meeting, the coach will send you a
preparatory exercise that you need to complete before our first session.
This exercise takes about an hour to complete and provides important
background information to make your first session more productive.
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You and the coach will have an initial 1-hour introductory session to
set your goals.
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Following the initial session, together you will mutually determine the
number of additional sessions required to accomplish your goals.
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At the final session in the series, you and your coach will discuss the
evolution of your leadership development and determine next steps.
What will it cost? All sessions will be billed at the
rate of $300 per hour, billed directly by the coach/mentor.
Your coaches and mentors
Edward Walker, MD, MHA
Tom Norris, MD
How to sign up
To sign up for the LEAD Program, fill out the
intake form.