At the Icahn School of Medicine Faculty Development Core (FDC) and Office of Well-Being and Resilience (OWBR), we believe that collaboration, compassion, and strong communication skills are essential for leaders to be effective and supportive of their teams. These skills can enhance your and your team’s well-being and professional fulfillment. We host, support, and endorse a series of events and workshops for faculty to learn and practice new skills for leadership. We offer these periodic workshops on various topics and are always interested in your suggestions. Please email OPED@mssm.edu to let us know what leadership development topics we address.
This program happens twice per year and provides an opportunity free of charge to enhance leadership skills and improve team well-being. Co-sponsored by the OWBR, FDC, Talent Development and Learning, Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice, and the Office of Excellence in Patient Care, these one-hour interactive Zoom meetings offer opportunities for small group discussion or practice. These courses may also be available to individual groups upon request by emailing oped@mssm.edu. Registration is available through PEAK approximately eight weeks before the sessions begin, and you can subscribe for announcements of upcoming sessions through this form. The individual workshops are:
- Psychological Safety to Create Trusting and Engaged Teams: The principles and tools demonstrated in this session will enable leaders to create a space in which team members feel safe to speak up and contribute, which in turn will promote optimal team functioning, innovation, and learning.
- Coaching for Growth: Leaders will learn tools for coaching team members, such as asking curious questions and listening to guide goal attainment and problem-solving, which can help team members find their passions, develop their skills, and advance their careers.
- Giving Effective Feedback to Enhance Team Succes: Participants will develop feedback delivery skills that build on learner's and team member's self-assessment to guide them towards improvement. We provide a simple framework for delivering reinforcing and constructive feedback and guidance for enhancing motivation and taking constructive feedback to the next level.
- Navigating Challenging Conversations: Leaders will learn strategies and tools to develop comfort and competence in handling the most difficult and often most important conversations, specifically during conflict and with differing opinions. These tools will help participants find the best path forward with colleagues (and family and friends).
- Levelling Up Praise and Appreciation: This session addresses strategies to identify praiseworthy and prideworthy moments and show appreciation to colleagues with authenticity and regularity to improve well-being and sense of value at work.
- Team Communication Centered on Well-Being: Participants will use a framework and tips for communicating with teams in a caring, effective manner to promote team engagement and professional satisfaction. The focus is on email communication but also touches on optimizing meetings via purposeful agenda setting and encouraging full team participation.
- Microaggressions 101: A How-to Guide for Leaders: Leaders will understand what microaggressions are, how/why they arise, and their impact on staff and colleagues who experience them. Participants will also learn how to respond to microaggressions with the ACTION framework as well as about Mount Sinai's policies around mistreatment by patients and visitors.
- Stress Management for Leaders: Participants will learn to differentiate among the four states of the stress continuum model and gain insight into tools such as cognitive reframing, practicing realistic optimism, and daily gratitude.