Core Leadership Competencies

Business of Medicine

Successfully leads strategy design and operations and fiscal management of endeavors across all missions.

Strategic Management in Challenging Financial times
Financial Planning
Understanding Funds Flow
Chair, Business Administrator Relationship
Managing non-Performing Members of the team

Healthy Cultures

Develops dynamic faculty cultures that promotes professional wellness, cohesive teams and the retention of faculty talent.

Wellness Based Cultures
Finding Joy in your Career Path
Inspiring and Motivating Teams
Building Strong Teams
Developing Resilience, Avoiding Burnout

Clinical Excellence

Builds clinical cultures and programs known for excellence in the delivery of high-quality patient care.

Improve outcomes
Reduce waste and inefficiency
Improved patient experience
Reduce variation
Increase accountability

Diversity & Inclusion

Intentionally creates a diverse faculty workforce within a collaborative, supportive environment that encourages and promotes participation from all team members.

Building a Diverse Workforce & Candidate Pipeline
Preparing your Organization for “Fierce” Conversations
Unconscious Bias Training
Fostering a Culture of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Anti-racism Resources

Education

Attracts, inspires and educates the next generation of pediatrician, subspecialist and surgeons while foster their meaningful impact across all missions.

Career planning for residents and fellows
Fostering Careers of Aspiring MD Scientists
Innovations in Education
Funding Fellowships
Sustaining the joy of medicine in residency

Leadership

Effectively builds and guides healthy teams capable of empowering programmatic mission, vision and strategic priorities.

Leadership Communication- Building Buy-In
Transition Planning- In/Out of Leadership

Coaching & Mentorship

Fosters the development of engagement and conflict resolution skills and the EQ and self-awareness required for effectively addressing leadership, operational and personality challenges that stand in the way of progress.

Wisdom 101 for new leaders
Mentoring across race, age, gender
Guiding faculty career planning
Coaching for success
Succession Planning – When, How and Why

Philanthropy

Establishes philanthropic cultures that affirm philanthropy as a strategic priority for all faculty in their efforts to create outstanding programs across all missions.

Building your case for Philanthropy
Gift Stewardship
Philanthropy is everyone’s responsibility
Setting Priorities
Working with the Philanthropy Team

Recruitment & Retention

Establishes and implements candidate-centric faculty talent recruitment and retention strategies and initiatives capable of attracting and retaining transformational talent.

Organizing a search committee
Succeeding in Faculty Recruitment
Candidate negotiation strategies
Recruitment Skills Training
Search Planning & Strategy

Research

Support your organization research mission while growing your research network.

Leading Research Teams
Investing in Research
Strategic Research Development
Developing clinical research infrastructure
Growing Your Research Network in Challenging Time – Networks and Collaboratives

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The CareerPhysician Core Leadership Competencies are attributes expected from successful physician leaders and programs. We firmly believe expertise in each of these competencies will be required of all next generation leaders seeking to advance their programs, cultures and teams into the future. In partnership with the Child Health Advisory Council, we are committed to establishing a foundation of success for academic leadership through executive search and leadership development efforts grounded in these Core Leadership Competencies. Skill development in each of these areas will be critical to the success of transformational leaders, programs and departments.

We have developed a list of attributes, assessment questions, FAQs, related Pediatric Insight articles and Council Conversations for each of the 10 Competencies: