Raj Ramakrishnan’s Post

Spot on! Coaches help us uncover these blind spots and develop a more objective understanding of our strengths and weaknesses. Through gentle encouragement and insightful questions, they empower us to reach our full potential. #coaching #selfawareness

Surgeon Atul Gawande teaches that in the face of complexity, coaching is the key to greatness (in health care, and beyond). Coaches help us see our actions with great precision, break down & analyze our choices, and build new habits that drive exponential success.

For years, I've been asking this question...if the best athletes, musicians, and actors all have coaches, why don't business owners? Watch Atul Gawande give a great, short explanation of why he brought a coach into his operating room. When are you going to bring a coach into your life? Why don't you let me know in the comments below? #coach #performance #gettingbetter

No Words Just reminded of this book excerpt from one of my favourite authors Charles Duhigg "Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive" "I sent a note to an author I admired, a friend of one of my colleagues at the Times. The author’s name was Atul Gawande, and he appeared to be a paragon of success. He was a forty-six-year-old staff writer at a prestigious magazine, as well as a renowned surgeon at one of the nation’s top hospitals. He was an associate professor at Harvard, an adviser to the World Health Organization, and the founder of a nonprofit that sent surgical supplies to medically underserved parts of the world. He had written three books—all bestsellers—and was married with three children. In 2006, he had been awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant—and had promptly given a substantial portion of the $500,000 prize to charity. There are some people who pretend at productivity, whose résumés appear impressive until you realize their greatest talent is self marketing. Then there are others, like Gawande, who seem to exist on a different plane of getting things done. His articles were smart and engaging, and, by all accounts, he was gifted in the operating room, committed to his patients, and a devoted father. Whenever he was interviewed on television, he appeared relaxed and thoughtful. His accomplishments in medicine, writing, and public health were important and real. I emailed him to ask if he had some time to talk. I wanted to know how he managed to be so productive. Mainly, what was his secret? And, if I learned it, could I change my own life? “Productivity,” of course, means different things in different settings. One person might spend an hour exercising in the morning before dropping the kids at school and consider the day a success. Another might opt to use that time locked in her office, returning emails and calling a few clients, and feel equally accomplished. A research scientist or artist may see productivity in failed experiments or discarded canvases since each mistake, they hope, gets them closer to discovery, while an engineer’s measure of productivity might focus on making an assembly line ever faster. A productive weekend might involve walking through the park with your kids, while a productive workday involves rushing them to daycare and getting to the office as early as you can. Productivity, put simply, is the name we give our attempts to figure out the best uses of our energy, intellect, and time as we try to seize the most meaningful rewards with the least wasted effort. It’s a process of learning how to succeed with less stress and struggle. It’s about getting things done without sacrificing everything we care about along the way. By this definition, Atul Gawande seemed to have things pretty well figured out. Start reading this book for free: https://amzn.in/2TwXwRc

This post is a great reminder that there is always room for growth and improvement. Dr. Gawande's talk highlights the importance of seeking feedback, even if it's uncomfortable. As he said, "It doesn't matter how good you are but it matters, how good you are going to be." Let's all adopt a growth mindset and prioritize mentorship and sharing of ideas. #growthmindset #mentorship #ideasworthsharing #leadership

This is brilliant. Coaching and supervision are so powerful. This resonates with me deeply by ensuring clinical supervision (in coaching style) wherever I’ve worked and led as standard practice including the most senior clinicians (why wouldn’t it be?). It made appraisals and revalidation evidence gathering easier, it made learning far more effective and also made clinical outcomes on my caseload better. But perhaps most importantly? Creates a culture that values learning. What’s not to love 🫶🏻

This is a nice example of a value proposition that is obvious to any leader who has retained a #coach or been part of a peer group and in the work of some business consultants, such as Vistage Worldwide, Inc. What may not be obvious is that the “external eyes and ears” need not be that of a coach who has more experience or wisdom. Other #perspectives provide the coaching, not the person per se. They shine a light on what goes #right as well as what goes #wrong, both of which can be(come) neglected. This #lifelonglearning and self-development is one of the hallmarks of scientific communities (eg, peer review) and professional learning communities in education (eg, shared understanding). It also occurs through in-service interprofessional co-learning in #healthcare (eg, collective intelligence) beyond formal curricula or scaffolds. The bottom line of the TED talk thus is that “coaching” is most needed in places where #exceptionalism narrows the attention of elite performers and insulates them from the perspectives of those with different levels or kinds of #expertise.

Take it from the great Atul Gawande, everyone needs a coach! Coaches are your eyes and ears, giving you a more accurate picture of what's going on and challenging you to think differently. Even the greatest in the world need a coach because we should never be done #learning and #growing. Having a coach is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of #strength. Take a few minutes and watch this brilliant TED talk. I promise you it’s worth your time. If you're looking to take your personal development to the next level, consider reaching out for a quick conversation to find out how coaching could help you. Don't let the fear of asking for help hold you back from achieving your goals. #coaching #personaldevelopment #growthmindset #PapillonCoaching

This is a great TEDTalk, and there are two things about it that I found especially fascinating. One is how accurate it is, and how every senior sales leader and frontline sales manager should watch this. Training, practice, feedback, and coaching should be central to our sales cultures. The second is that even in his presentation, what he describes as coaching, seems more like it was feedback. It obviously worked, but I wonder how much more powerful it would have been if his friend had coached him, rather than just shared a page of notes. In either case - this is a great message for CEOs and senior sales and revenue leaders.

How do professionals get better at what they do? A very interesting question. I feel that even the best players in the world need a coach. A coach guides, formulates, motivates and guides players to develop and excel in their respective field of expertise. We all need a coach so that in turn we can develop and coach others in future. It has to be a chain. #talentdevelopment #coaching #inspiration