Tag: Academic Educator Coaching
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Burn the Ships: How to refocus your identity inward and avoid the Title Trap
The risk of using external trappings – titles, roles, reputations – to define our identity can be that they indeed trap us in that identity.
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Wagons East: The Value of “Upward Progress”

Key Takeaways: When I was a kid, I had a knack for convincing my parents to take me to comedy movies that I had no business seeing (was I a 9 year old boy watching the opening scene of sperm swimming to inseminate an egg in Look Who’s Talking? Yes, yes I was). After a…
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The Wide World of Coaching in Medicine

Key Takeaways: Coaching in Academic Medicine This may come as no surprise from a blog about coaching, but the concept of coaching is becoming more and more common within the medical education world. Up to this point, it has primarily caught on at the career poles: medical students and institutional leaders. However, more and more…
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The Magic of Goal Setting

Key Takeaways: Goal Setting is magical! What other single action can you do that will improve your effort, persistence, motivation, focus, self-efficacy, and actual task performance? SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely) and WOOP (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, and Plan) are goal setting rubrics that can help you be set higher-quality goals right away. After…
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Welcome to the Academic Educator Coaching Site!

Thank you for visiting the Academic Educator Coaching blog! This is an exciting endeavor for me, and in a wonderfully meta way, I’m learning to grow as a proprietor just as you will grow from coaching. Let’s cut to the chase: Blogs tend to be various combinations of diary, bumper sticker, humblebrag, and crank-with-a-loudspeaker. Here,…