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: Upward progress is not always forward progress, higher isn’t always better, and more status isn’t tantamount to more happiness. Values are principles you hold in life or deem important. Beliefs are inferences, assumptions, or conclusions you draw from your personal life experience. Purpose is the reason you exist. If you could describe what gets you…
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The Wide World of Coaching in Medicine
Key Takeaways: There are numerous flavors of coaching relevant to academic medicine; your career stage and knowledge of what you aim to accomplish can help you pick the best one Learner coaching aims to develop skills within trainees to allow them to self-regulate (or “own”) their own learning Skills coaching is most similar to athletic…
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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,…
