Certified Healthcare Leader Coach™

The Physician Coaching Institute is pleased to offer a coaching skills development program for leaders and Academic cohorts from a single healthcare organization. This 3-month training program equips leaders and faculty with specific coaching competencies and emotional intelligence skills that can improve engagement, enhance decision-making, and support professional growth among their team members and junior clinicians.

Unlike typical classroom leadership courses that focuses on business, finance and operations, the Certified Healthcare Leader Coach program develops competencies that are essential in developing team engagement.

Leader as coach: Listens, connects, empowers, engenders trust
Leader as highest self: Is self-aware, other-aware and inspires engagement
Leader as partner: Supports professional growth

The Physician Coaching Institute is Accredited by the International Coach Federation

Learning Benefits for Leader Participants and their Organization

Personal and Professional Growth of the Participant:

Develop self-knowledge and learn to manage your impact on colleagues
Develop emotional intelligence for leadership effectiveness
Integrate coaching frameworks in your role as leader or Faculty advisor to support professional development of your direct reports or junior physicians
Learn specific coaching skills and techniques you can apply to multiple situations in the course of leading your team or collaborating with colleagues
Learn how to provide more specific and actionable feedback and engage in more meaningful interactions as your develop junior team members
Integrate your new coaching skills with previous leadership training
Learn in a highly interactive and competency-based learning format; refine competencies through immediate and supportive feedback
Go beyond concepts and immediately apply practical skills every day in your role

Positive Impact For the Organization:

Leaders with greater self-awareness and proficiency in coaching communication are able to retain individual talent and foster best in team performance
Leaders with non-judgement presence and coaching competencies are able to develop the potential of others, leading to greater fulfillment and growth among clinical colleagues
Leader-coaches can support clinician engagement and retention
Leader-coaches can instill confidence of junior clinicians as they develop a career path aligned with their core strengths and core values
A cadre of leader-coaches inside the organization with these Healthcare Leader Coach competencies will use a standard and evidence-based approach to coaching support

Program Curriculum and Structure

The Certified Healthcare Leader Coach™ program curriculum consists of eight Learning Modules across four Competency Areas:

Coaching Foundation	Emotional Intelligence	Authentic Influence	Team Engagement
Module 1 Essentials of Coaching, ICF Core Coaching Competencies	Module 3 Self-Awareness: Understanding Hardwired Style	Module 5 Dependable Personal Strengths	Module 7 Supporting Individuals in Personal Growth
Module 2 Coaching Approach for the Leader	Module 4 Self-Management: "Flexing" Your Leadership Communication	Module 6 Coaching Presence as Leadership Presence	Module 8 Supporting Career Resilience

Language used: English

Eligibility for Participation

This training is offered only to health systems who are ready to commit 12 leaders or Faculty members to form a cohort. The objective is not only to equip these leaders with coaching skills, but for the cohort to form a peer-coach network to support each other. Furthermore, the cohort will be internal role models for a coaching culture. The training is appropriate for a multidisciplinary cohort comprised of Physician, Nurse, Pharmacist, Psychologist, Social Worker, HR Executive, or other allied health professionals who are currently in a leadership role (e.g. Chief, Chair, Director, Vice Chancellor, Academic Dean, COO, CEO, CMO, CNO, CMIO, CNIO, Vice President).

A health system may also want to tap into their “sages”– those experienced clinicians who have earned the respect of their colleagues—to become internal peer coaches through this training.

Certification and CME

Participants complete a PCI Proficiency Portfolio throughout the course of the 3-month training. Successful completion leads to the Certified Healthcare Leader Coach™ credential. Participants earn 24 coaching hours credit applicable to an International Coach Federation credential. In addition, 15 hours CME credit is available.

Program Faculty

The Certified Healthcare Leader Coach™ training program was developed by Francine Gaillour, MD, MBA, FACPE, Executive Director of the Physician Coaching Institute. The Physician Coaching Institute is accredited by the International Coaching Federation and has been a provider of professional coach training since 2004.

Contact us to arrange an introductory meeting and explore how this proven coaching skills program can enhance your leadership approach and positively impact peers, direct report, and junior physicians.