Manager Skills for doctors at Dignity Health
“Embrace failure!” is not a typical (or advisable) mindset for a medical professional. It is, however, a great mantra for an executive looking to break new ground and innovate in a competitive industry like medicine. Dignity Health’s leadership development program helps doctors prepare themselves for future executive leadership roles. To help with that transition, the Dignity Health program worked with us to lead the group through a workshop on how to apply improv-based leadership frameworks in their day to day management work in hospitals.
Improvisation for doctors
In this two-hour workshop, participants focused on developing collaborative skills for listening and building on the ideas of colleagues. Activities focused on ways to encourage people to embrace their unique point of view in order to develop new and creative ideas to solve problems.
The group originated from a variety of facilities across the western United States, so they were eager to to share their wide range of experiences collaborating and communicating with colleagues in their home offices. The highlight of the workshop came at the end of the session when two brave volunteers offered to take the “PowerPoint from Hell” challenge and presented completely improvised (and hilarious) presentations in front of the entire group.
Workshop objectives
Apply full body listening to improve verbal and non-verbal listening
Overcome fear and embrace uncertainty in professional interactions
Storytelling: Learn how to apply improv techniques to co-create a compelling and creative narrative that catches an audience’s attention.
Public Speaking: Develop your point of view to hone a message to an intended audience. Learn techniques to prepare your mind, body and voice to speak on a topic with no preparation time.
“The whole progression of activities was the best presentation I have seen on improv for non-comedians.”
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