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March 31, 2025 2:34 pm

Change the human condition, or the conditions humans work in?

by Sharee Johnson

If we can’t change the human condition, but we can change the conditions they work in …what should we do?  Specifically, what should we do to improve healthcare for those who work in it and for those who as patients and clients need our help? Last week I attended the Human Factors and Patient Safety […]

June 25, 2024 2:17 pm

Retreat fosters a tender heart and a stable mind.

by Sharee Johnson

What a tender act it is to be on retreat. To tend to one’s self gently…. What just happened when you read that first sentence, that word tender?  What belief did you automatically invoke without even trying, as truth? To tend to something means to pay attention to it and take action to care for […]

Mixed group of health professions in discussion around a boardroom table. A projected chart of data is being displayed on a screen behind the medical professionsal
April 23, 2024 10:36 am

Leading a Hospital Unit Effectively

by Sharee Johnson

Leading and creating a hospital unit workplace culture, where people want to be. A provocation for generative thinking. Shanafelt et. al. have demonstrated and concluded that creating a wellbeing culture in healthcare needs to happen at the local unit level.1 Professors Amy Edmondson and Don Berwick delivered a keynote together last week at the IHI […]

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November 20, 2023 12:49 pm

Personal Agency is Key to Individual Wellbeing and to Organisational Change

by Sharee Johnson

According to the Stanford WellMD model of healthcare, healthcare worker well being1 is achieved from 20% personal resilience and 80% organisational responsibility (changing systems and structures in the workplace). The Stanford research is impressive and guides a great deal of our work. It’s impact in helping healthcare organisations to get serious about their responsibilities to […]

September 30, 2023 4:28 pm

Medicine is an inexact science.

by Sharee Johnson

Researchers and clinicians work hard to bring evidence to the table, to notice and measure patterns, to share information in the service of everyone. And medicine has done an extraordinary job of this. For example:   🌱Average global life expectancy has more than doubled   🌱Child mortality and maternal mortality rates are lower  🌱We are […]

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September 14, 2023 2:53 pm

Compassionate Care Competencies need our attention

by Sharee Johnson

Bedside manner and communication skills are the ‘tip of the compassion iceberg’ according to Dominic O. Vachon. In the big machine that is modern day healthcare, we have prioritised throughput, technical wizardry and the financial bottom line. In other words, we still talk a lot about compassion, but we are not walking the talk often […]

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August 23, 2023 7:40 am

The Well-Being Index Partner

by Sharee Johnson

What does make a difference to doctor wellbeing and performance? We are interested in how coaching can alter doctor wellbeing and performance. So we are constantly seeking ways to measure the impact of our work.We are really delighted to be partnering with Beamtree who offer the Well-Being Index (WBI) to healthcare workers in Australia and […]

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July 27, 2023 12:14 pm

Love in Medicine

by Sharee Johnson

Love has a place in medicine and the care is so much better July is perhaps the most sacred time of the year for me. A time to slow down, reflect, remember. To pause and honour, to walk and write. In the space of a quieter pace and the dark, I have found myself immersed […]

February 1, 2023 9:48 am

Being your best selves

by Sharee Johnson

Do you have the right people around you to help be your definition of fulfilled? We hope 2023 has been good to you so far. We are really excited about 2023 here at Coaching for Doctors, as we lean into working with more healthcare organisations in more systemic ways.  As you know our primary work […]

Coaching helps you see yourself more clearly
November 4, 2022 12:50 pm

Coaching helps doctors see themselves

by Sharee Johnson

Q: What is it that you do in coaching with a doctor?

 A: Mostly I help them see themselves.
The person I am working with knows what is best for them.

Doctors are Humans
October 3, 2022 9:00 am

Doctors are humans.

by Sharee Johnson

Next time you meet a doctor
Remember you are meeting a human being
With all the human needs and frailties that you have
With a life that can get messy like yours outside the hospital walls, beyond the clinic

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September 6, 2022 9:00 am

Interpreter, facilitator, coach

by Sharee Johnson

Learning the skills of wellbeing takes more than a one hour workshop. For healthcare to find a way to take better care of the workers, we need radical change not tweaks at the edges.