The beginning of the year is the favorite time to start new projects. Although when it comes to opening a new practice, any day of the year is perfect. But even if you don’t own your work space you need to become a good medical leader. In this way you will be able to motivate and encourage your collaborators. By achieving this, it will be easier to offer a quality service to patients.
Now, before the transformations derived from the Covid-19 pandemic Medical offices have had to redefine their strategies, goals, and even their work dynamics. These changes demand a new generation of leaders who know how to guide and accompany their team.
2022 will bring with it new challenges, even the first weeks have already been challenging and the outlook is still uncertain. Therefore, it is important that a medical leader is prepared to face whatever comes.
“To build habits and develop meaningful skills, it is important to set clear goals, define an action plan, track progress and stop making excuses. If the goal is to be a better leader, it is possible to reach it if you have perseverance, clarity and tools that support you to achieve those goals”, says María Ibarra, founder and CEO of The Full Planner, the planning tool that converts the purposes into attainable goals.
In this sense, people who seek to develop, enrich and refine their leadership must be clear that this process requires perseverance so that their vision matches their purposes. With this in mind, the following are three habits you must develop to achieve your goals.
Constant communication and feedback
Good leaders lead not by words but by example. Project managers must find time and space to get to know their team members, both professionally and personally. For his decision making, the leader considers the opinion and the different perspectives of the other collaborators.
To achieve a stronger leadership this year, it is essential that the leaders of a company establish direct and constant communication with their team, in addition to fostering a work space in which feedback is a daily practice.
A good start is with brief one-on-one talks, or weekly or fortnightly meetings (as required) to brainstorm, propose new solutions, execute them and follow up. The latter requires detailed control of activities and monitoring.
Help train other leaders
It is not enough to know the members of the team, you also have to bet on developing leadership skills of those in charge of each area. This will help managers to propose new solutions or strategies to attack a problem, take on greater responsibilities in their area of expertise and, among other things, support other collaborators with their day-to-day tasks.
Thanks to the development of these soft skills, the organization can reach its goals more efficiently, some functions can be delegated and specific problems identified by each area expert can be tackled.
For this, the leader needs to listen and get to know his team to identify weaknesses and strengths. After that, they can have meetings to find the most efficient way to work on their training.
Recognize a job well done
In general, mistakes weigh more than successes in the business balance. However, it is time to break with these anachronistic practices. A good medical leader helps to correct the course when it is wrong and knows how to reward and recognize work when it is well done. It is important to measure and appreciate the contribution of each team member.
In order to develop good leadership, it is essential to know that these skills cannot be improved or acquired overnight.
It is important for the person interested in taking their leadership to the next level to plan with concrete actions to achieve their goal, develop a schedule to establish key dates and monitor progress.