Benefits of coaching

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What is Coaching?

Coaching is a collaborative partnership between a coach and a willing individual, which connects at the deeply
personal level of beliefs, values, and vision.

Coaching supports individuals to strengthen their leadership skills, improve professional satisfaction, find work-life balance, or find ways to build on their strengths.-

Safe and confidential
Develop a meaningful relationship with your coach
Personalized professional development that is easily accessible
Assessments to identify strengths and growth
opportunities
Accountability structure with practical action steps
Challenged to stretch beyond your comfort zone
Evidenced-based strategies

Benefits of Coaching

Coaching is a collaborative partnership between a coach and a willing individual, which connects at the deeply
personal level of beliefs, values, and vision.

Improved Personal Life

Develop a deeper sense of compassion for yourself and learn to prioritize your own needs, wants, and dreams. Relationships with yourself and others improve.

Improved Clinical Life

Start to feel more connected with your patients. Feel less frazzled and overwhelmed at work.

Other benefits of coaching include:

Major improvements in emotional fatigue and focus
Improved ability to sleep
Improved self-compassion and self-kindness
Enhanced ability to manage family life and home setting
Skill building around assessing the current situation and pausing before responding
Hosting difficult conversations
Improved understanding of themselves as a leader
Leading from within
Management and people skills as a formal leader

Coaching to Reduce
Physician Burnout

In more than 2,300 responses to the CMA’s 2021 National Physician Health Survey, female physicians are reporting higher levels of burnout compared to their male peers.

A 2008 article published in the Canadian Family Physician journal suggests that a physician coach can be a catalyst for change to help a physician build resiliency. Resiliency is a key factor that helps reduce burnout.

Both the Canadian Medical Association 2021 National Physician Health survey (above) and the 2022 Physician Foundation Survey reveal the challenging realities physicians experience and how critical it is to provide transformative support to help physicians survive and thrive.

Professional coaching may be an effective strategy to reduce burnout and improve well-being for physicians. This clinical trial showed that participants who received professional coaching had a significant reduction in emotional exhaustion and overall symptoms of burnout, as well as improvements in overall quality of life and resilience.