Leading with Impact: Essentials for Physician Leadership in an Uncertain Environment – Session Info

Session 1: Leading with Clarity and Agility: Harnessing Your Communication Skills

Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 8:00 to 11:00 a.m.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:

1. Recognize your communication strengths and develop a plan to expand them

2. Identify and understand others’ communication styles and bridge the gap

3. Gain communication strategies to achieve buy-in

4. Build skill in different styles for expanded leadership agility

Key Components

• Welcome and program overview
• Brief introduction conversations
• Factors influencing communication
• Self and Social Awareness
• Leadership Wheel/Communication Agility exercises and discussion
• Communication Agility practical applications

Session 2: Leading through Courageous Conversations and Effective Feedback

Thursday, November 6, 2025, 8:00 to 11:00 a.m.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:

1. Strengthen your ability to provide clear, kind performance feedback using the DARA model

2. Explore key elements and practical skills for navigating challenging conversations well

3. Deepen your understanding of Emotional Intelligence, presence, and powerful questions in the context of courageous conversations

4. Script and receive peer coaching on an upcoming challenging conversation

Key Components

• Leadership Connection Conversations
• Courageous Conversation and Emotional Intelligence
• Article Conversations
• Aikido Model of Conversation
  • Know and Ground Yourself: Presence and Listening
  • Meet the Other: Anatomy of Common Ground, DARA Feedback Model and Practice
  • Walk the Path Together: Powerful Questions, Inquiry and Advocacy
• Script a Conversation
• Peer Coaching

Session 3: Navigating Change and Uncertainty

Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 8:00 to 11:00 a.m.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:

1. Grow skills for navigating and making sense in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) environment

2. Learn how to embrace resistance to change

3. Explore several models for organizational change

4. Apply the frameworks in a peer coaching process around a real change you are facing or leading

Key Components

• Leadership Connection Conversations
• Understanding the VUCA environment
• VUCA: A Brave New World video and discussion
• VUCA Navigation Matrix
• Embracing resistance to change
• Experiences with change initiatives
• Key Change Models: Kubler-Ross, Bridges and Kotter
• Leader Strategies
• Peer Coaching on change opportunities

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