Frontline health care providers focus on caring for others. Mentoring at its heart provides professional care for the carers. Mentoring is about conversation not correction, and provides direction that empowers clinicians to reach their individual potential within a sustainable and enjoyable career. Fixing weaknesses may prevent failure, but coaching to strengths leads to real success. Mentoring also rewards and revitalizes those that mentor, and shifts the overall workplace culture towards constructive, supportive conversations.
The facilitators are both experienced clinician coaches that continue to champion mentoring as an important professional development process and wellbeing support mechanism in medical practice. Drawing upon decades of work in a variety of hospital settings and Emergency Departments, the facilitators will share mentoring practices and coaching skills that include powerful questions; strengths-based coaching; harnessing diversity; supervisor as coach; and clinical compassion. Participants in this workshop will be rewarded with practical steps and strategies to enhance engagement and improve performance of doctors and teams working in remote and rural medicine.