Leadership Starts Here: Faculty Development Workshop Series

The goal of the session is to foster early relationship‑building, shared purpose, and psychological safety within the new cohort while introducing key program expectations.

Objectives:

• Build initial rapport and trust among cohort members to support year‑long collaboration.
• Clarify program structure, expectations, and learning commitments.
• Strengthen participants’ sense of identity as emerging leaders within Dell Med.
• Create space for informal dialogue with facilitators Greg Wallingford. M.D., MBA, E. Steve Roach, M.D. and Ashleigh Moses, M.S., M.A.

Medical education and training traditionally incorporate bioethics curriculum focused on foundational ethical principles and professionalism, primarily in the context of direct patient care and research. Alongside that content, there has been increased attention to physicians’ experience of moral injury; harm that results from the conflict between their professional ethics and the values imposed on them by their leaders and organizations. While many leadership development programs focus on building management and technical skills, fewer focus on the adaptive leadership needed to establish an organizational culture rooted in ethics and in values-guided moral courage. Understanding that physicians exercise leadership through formal and informal roles, this workshop will explore content relevant to individuals at any stage in their career.

Objectives:

• Describe foundational bioethical principles and moral courage, and their relationship to effective leadership.
• Consider how application of those principles supports optimizing organizational culture, improving healthcare quality, safety, and access, and advancing population health.
• Provide an approach for assessing one’s own ethics and moral leadership.
• Engage in leadership self-reflection through an interactive case study.

The goal of the session is to enhance participants’ confidence in applying leadership‑aligned communication strategies across clinical, academic, and organizational contexts.

Objectives:

• Identify communication behaviors that strengthen clarity, influence, and trust.
• Practice adapting communication style to audience, power dynamics, and context.
• Strengthen skills for navigating difficult conversations with professionalism and empathy.
• Explore methods for communicating vision and expectations as a formal or informal leader.

The goal of the session is to strengthen participants’ ability to use coaching as a leadership tool—supporting the growth, clarity, and autonomy of rising faculty and staff while fostering a culture of continuous development within Dell Med.

Objectives:

• Develop an understanding of foundational coaching principles and how they differ from advising, mentoring, and supervising.
• Strengthen leaders’ skills in active listening, powerful questioning, and reflective dialogue to support learner‑driven growth.
• Practice structured coaching models (e.g., GROW, CLEAR) to guide rising leaders in identifying goals, obstacles, and actionable next steps.
• Enhance participants’ confidence in coaching conversations that promote self‑awareness, accountability, and performance improvement.
• Learn strategies for embedding coaching habits into day‑to‑day leadership practices to cultivate a supportive development culture across teams.

The goal of the session is to increase participants’ confidence and competence in delivering constructive, timely, and actionable feedback that promotes growth and accountability.

Objectives:

• Practice evidence‑based feedback models (e.g., SBI, feed‑forward, coaching‑oriented methods).
• Strengthen abilities to navigate resistance, defensiveness, or emotional responses to feedback.
• Apply techniques for giving upward, peer‑to‑peer, and downward feedback.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement through regular, equitable feedback practices.