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Leverage
Your Experiences Into Transferable Skills - Part I
What kind of skills and experience do you
have that can be transferred to a non-clinical career?
Developing an inventory of skills and accomplishments is a
prerequisite to knocking on doors, and is helpful to do even before you
start networking. Leading
your own clinical practice does build organization skills—to a point.
However, navigating in a peer-to-peer world is what is most
valuable as you start to venture outside the confines of your closely
controlled clinical practice. In this and the next issue of the Daring
Doctors Newsletter, some suggestions for Basic Skills and Advanced
Skills are offered.
Basic Skills:
- Communicating
in a professional manner as a team member (listening, reflecting,
clarifying, brainstorming, offering feedback)
- Facilitating
meetings and dealing with difficult people
- Working
within a team structure to start and complete a project within a
budget and timeline
- Understanding
how organizational systems work
- Negotiating
for win-win
- Speaking
in front of groups (of at least 15)
- Understanding
basic accounting
- Having
basic computer skills (Word, Excel, Email, Internet Surfing)
The next Newsletter will address Advanced
Skills plus some suggestions for the type of accomplishments that
demonstrate you have these skills.
Leverage
Your Experiences Into Transferable Skills Part II
What
kind of skills and experience do you have that can be transferred to a
non-clinical career? Developing
an inventory of skills and accomplishments is a prerequisite to knocking
on doors, and is helpful to do even before you start networking.
The last Newsletter addressed Basic Skills that are essential to
develop as make your transition. In
this Newsletter suggestions for Advanced Skills are offered.
Early in a transition, you need not have all the advanced skills
listed. For physician
executives, competency in at least five areas is essential.
Advanced
Skills:
- Strategic
Planning
- Product
or Service line development
- Change
management
- Speaking
in front of large groups
- Financial
management and calculation of ROI, NPV and IRR
- Conflict
resolution
- New
venture business planning
- Full
scale project management
- Goals-based
people management
In
the next Newsletter, “domain-specific” skills will be addressed.
Domain expertise reflects your passions, natural gifts, or
learned experience within an area. As physicians, we have deep domain expertise in Medicine.
As you move into other areas of business, leadership, or into the
world at large, acquiring new domain expertise or nurturing existing
talents is imperative.
Leverage
Your Experience Into Transferable Skills - Part III
What
kind of skills and experience do you have that can be transferred to a
non-clinical career? Developing
an inventory of skills and accomplishments is a prerequisite to knocking
on doors, and is helpful to do even before you start networking. The last two Newsletters addressed Basic Skills and
Advanced Skills that are essential to develop as make your transition.
In this Newsletter suggestions for Domain-specific skills are
offered. Domain expertise
reflects your passions, natural gifts, or learned experience within an
area. As physicians, we
have deep domain expertise in Medicine.
As you move into other areas of business, leadership, or into the
world at large, acquiring new domain expertise or nurturing existing
talents is imperative.
Be
open to exploring domain skills and talents that you may have abandoned
or made your avocation---this is your opportunity to be creative,
gutsy and bold and bring your whole self to your vocation!
Examples
of Domain Skills in Healthcare:
- Clinical Trials
Management
- Medical Informatics
- Health Network
Development
- Utilization Management
- Clinical Process
Improvement
- Legal Medicine
- Ethics in Medicine
- Medical
Entrepreneurship
- Alternative therapy
- Health policy
Examples
of Domain Skills Outside of Healthcare
- Journalism/broadcasting
- Creative Writing
- Music
- Speaking
- Art/Sculpture/Architecture
- Graphic Design
- Humor
- Computer programming
- Gardening
- Cooking/Nutrition
- Coaching/Sports
- Ministry
- Fashion/ Pop Culture
- A million other ideas
Many
physicians in transition often choose the path of developing
healthcare-specific domain skills, thinking: “I don’t want to throw
away everything that I’ve learned.”
“After all, how many of us have the talent of Patch Adams or
Michael Crichton?” If you
have a non-healthcare talent or passion, then go for it!
Doors will open once you choose to honor the whole you!
Leveraging
your experiences into transferable skills in a short
excerpt from our home study course The
Physician's Definitive Guide to Career Transition. To learn more click
here.
Francine
R. Gaillour, MD, Business Consultant and Executive Coach
for Healthcare Leaders francine@physicianleadership.com, (206) 686-4205
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