Talent & Career Development for Practicing Physicians
“A great mentor can provide clarity and focus for personal and professional growth of an individual. Connecting individuals with their true purpose and passion is a gift and the results can be transformative."
-Uzma Iqbal
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Talent management, career, and leadership development are becoming a necessity for both health care organizations and, physicians.
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Studies have found that hospitals with the most clinician involvement in management affairs performed 50% higher on drivers of performance, compared with hospitals with little clinical leadership. Combining leadership skills and training with clinical expertise, they have the potential to become powerful and influential leaders capable of seeing new possibilities, inspiring others, breaking down silos, and creating a new vision of healthcare delivery.
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While some medical schools offer MD/MBA programs to develop physician-leaders, a typical career path for a physician who has become an administrator of a department or leader of a health care organization is that he or she was recognized as an excellent clinician or researcher. These skills are not the only competencies needed to lead departments or health care organizations.
Many of the successful physician activities, from treating patients to conducting research, are often done as an autonomous professional. The newly-promoted physician may lack formal training in financial, change, and risk management, consensus building, and stakeholder alignment. The demands, complexity, and responsibilities of his or her new role may lead to dissatisfaction and disengagement, often compromising their performance.
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In addition to traditional practice models, academics, employment, and hospital leadership/CMO, the scope of career opportunities for doctors have expanded to include:
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Management Consulting or Subject Matter Expertise
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Entrepreneurship
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Healthcare tech startups consulting
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Public Health/Policy making careers
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Pharmaceuticals & Insurance Industries
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As career opportunities for aspiring and practicing physicians expand, so does the demand for guidance and coaching to help choose the optimal path. Coaching is instrumental in providing clarity of purpose and defining a path forward for professional development or a career pivot.
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Have you ever considered having a partner who can help in:
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Gaining clarity by deep diving into your ultimate career and personal goals.
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Identifying obstacles in your journey.
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Allowing yourself to focus forward and holding you accountable to decrease your chances of falling back.
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Setting work-life integration with effective boundaries for a meaningful transformation.
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If you answered yes to above, you are not alone! More physicians contemplate a career change now than ever before.
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Leveraging over two decades of academic experience, patient care, physician leadership, and healthcare advocacy,
I am a highly-skilled and effective physician leader, teacher, and mentor. Recognized by peers and industry leaders for my unique ability to see the big picture, I can maintain an acute awareness of each individual's purpose and journey.
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Walking alongside my cancer patients, I have helped them turn a devastating diagnosis into a transformative experience. In deep-diving into introspective conversations, multidimensional world views, purpose dialogues, and community invocations, I use a trifecta of hope, healing, and honesty to identify the tools required to "make the rest of your life the best of your life by making moments matter."
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I have developed the Making Moments Matter Framework that allows aspiring and practicing physicians to gain clarity of purpose and to build a roadmap to draw upon whenever they feel a need to revisit or recalibrate their purpose and journey.
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Using the 6 guiding principles from my Making Moments Matter Framework, I offer a unique coaching experience to guide aspiring and practicing physicians in a creative, joyful, and effective way.
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Bringing creativity in recognizing the patterns of data and a willingness to identify all possibilities to find the best way forward.
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Evoking courage, confidence and resilience even amidst uncertainty of change.
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Leveraging honesty and dependability, fostering relationships built on trust.
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Having a big picture perspective while building bridges.
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Focusing on emotional depth and clarification of goals, targets, and measures of success.
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Catalyzing energy and instant momentum to completion of projects.
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Using my incredible understanding of the human psyche, namely in identifying core values and higher purpose, I co-create a plan of growth, success, and healing to help both individuals unlock their potential.
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Many healthcare professionals have testified to the transformative results of my coaching program:
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Testimonials-
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Dr. Uzma Iqbal is both a dynamic leader and an extraordinary coach and mentor. Early on in my leadership career, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to meet Dr. Iqbal one day during my first few weeks as a newly promoted Nurse Manager. During our introductory meeting, Dr. Iqbal took the time to share what I feel as sound guidance on how to be successful in my new role. Following this introductory meeting, I must say the rest is history. Dr. Iqbal has remained my phenomenal coach and mentor as I have continued on my leadership journey. From the new Nurse manager to now Chief Nursing Officer, Dr. Iqbal challenged me continuously to refine my leadership skills to move from ordinary to extraordinary. I truly admire Dr. Iqbal for her diligence to empower and inspire others to be the best version of themselves.
-Dr. TaShauna McCray, DNP, RN, MBA, NEA-BC. (HCA Houston Healthcare West)
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