Episode 273 Practicing Excellence with Dr Stephen Beeson
On this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike is joined by Dr. Stephen Beeson. Stephen gives us an insight into his background as an aspiring musician and how one conversation changed the trajectory of his life so that he ended up in the leadership side of healthcare helping other physicians and clinicians practice excellence.
Stephen tells us how he had no intentions of going to college until one conversation at dinner with his uncle, who was a neurologist, about the day in the life of a physician. This conversation sprung the beginning of Stephen’s medical career as he spent the summer working with his uncle and ended up falling in love with the practice. Years later Stephen was offered a leadership role and decided to take the opportunity to help capacitate clinicians to be extraordinary for their patients in a way that gives them joy and meaning within their workplace.
Mike and Stephen speak about the importance of leadership and how leadership is the soil in which people grow. Stephen explains how our engagement, satisfaction, and burnout probability are heavily influenced by how our organization is being led. He shares how he works with people to get rid of their victim thinking by constantly engaging their conscious mind to be better for their patients and colleagues.
They also discuss how defiance is the first stage of change. Stephen gives some tips for leaders to use to re-engage the human side of health care:
- Harvest good things people are doing
- Share those stories in a public way
- Be intentional
- End meetings with callouts so that your teams feel valued and heard
They talk about the importance of having meaning and joy within your work and the workplace. Stephen expresses how often times if our work is too stressful and not fulfilling we end up taking those negative feelings home and disrupting our home lives and how we treat the people around us.
Stephen believes that the development of skills to create behaviors and moments to drive meaningful outcomes is an incredibly powerful instrument and you can read more about this belief through his books Practicing Excellence: A Physician's Manual to Exceptional Health Care and Engaging Physicians: A Manual to Physician Partnership.
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Links and Contact Information:
Website: https://www.mikeharbour.net/
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Guest Website: https://practicingexcellence.com/stephen-beeson-md-bio/
