Virtual Bookclub Series | Leader-Coach
Conscious leadership and coaching principles for medical conversations.
Conscious leadership is a methodology that promotes intentionality for individuals and teams within business environments. Corporate leaders leverage these principles to elevate team performance, creativity, and personal growth. The core idea of conscious leadership is to create teams that operate from choice, rather than reactivity.
Can conscious leadership tools like self-awareness, authenticity, and candor improve these interactions and begin the work of creating safety for Healers in the midst of their professions?
Why Should You Participate?
This discussion will explore whether the principles used in successful corporate teams can be adapted for the clinic floor.
Medical leaders often face intense, high-stakes conversations with clients—emotional and mental agility, and resiliency, are key. This book presents mental models for adapting coaching in leadership, particularly for on-the-ground leaders in high-stakes settings.
This book club is for medical entrepreneurs.
Our bookclub discussions will focus on evaluating conscious leadership principles and their applications on the clinic floor, to medical environments, and client interactions. Our focus will be on the adaptation of conscious leadership principles to improve communication, decision-making, and team dynamics within the medical field, particularly that of animal care and veterinary medicine.
Join our community for a journey on the path to becoming an active, transformative coach in service to your patients and their caregivers by bringing more coaching into your medical leadership.
Session Structure & Agenda
10 minutes: Announcements & Networking
20 minutes: Silent Reading, Journalling, or Self-Directed Work
45 minutes: Facilitated Discussion
15 minute: Practice Presentations
Offered in a Rotating Series
Leader Coach
Why This Book?
Written by Kaley Klemp (co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership) and Sue Heilbronner, sought-after executive coaches, this book is a favorite among corporate leaders. Teams at companies like Apple, Google, Salesforce, Meta, and others have successfully implemented these principles.
This book club fosters community-driven discussion around reinterpreting conscious leadership principles for medical settings, specifically in client conversations.
Topics for Discussion:
Translating Core Principles: Learn to apply conscious leadership principles as an actionable framework for managing, leading, and making valuable contributions. How do you keep showing up every day to do the work of being a Healer? How do you support the Healers around you?
Proven Coaching Practices: Access a toolkit of coaching techniques that can be immediately implemented to foster a high-performance culture - in the office workplace or on the clinic floor.
Integrating Coaching into Leadership: Make coaching a natural and essential part of your daily leadership routine. Whether you’re speaking with clients, teammates, or editing your own self-talk - including coaching principles into your leadership styles will improve engagement outcomes.
Psychological Safety & Resilience: Expand your toolkit to navigate tricky conversations with animal caregivers and team members. Learn to advocate for your own mental wellbeing while setting safety standards for the team and clients around you.
Where to Find the Book:
Schedule & Reading Assignments:
The book club meets every two weeks for 6 sessions from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mountain Time (MT). Session 2 starts on October 29th. Missed Session1, no problem - jump in and join us anytime.
DONE - October 15 | Chapters 1-4: Important Terms & Idea-Gathering - this discussion focused on leveraging coaching concepts in medical conversations with clients and navigating the clinic team environment. This discussion highlighted ideas on creating options and choices in high-pressure situations.
DONE - October 29 | Cultural Prerequisites for Leader Coaching
DONE - November 12 | Chapters 5-9: Mental Models
December 10 | Chapters 13-21: The Shift Tools
November 26 | Chapters 10-12: Context, Choices, Connection
UP NEXT! - December 24 | Chapters 22-24: How to Be a Leader Coach
This book club meets within our virtual Waypoint (Zoom Breakout Room). You will receive a login link after registration.
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