Episode 7: Leadership Hack - Investing in Others (feat. Joshua Hartzell, MD)
Rahul
Welcome to Learning to Lead, a podcast about leadership, teamwork, and reimagining healthcare. This podcast is for learners, educators, and healthcare professionals interested in building leadership skills in a supportive community.
We are your hosts Rahul Anand, Maya Doyle, Peter Longley, Amber Vargas, and Brooklynn Weber.
Together we bring you conversations with emerging and established leaders, deep dives and hacks to help you become the best leader you can be.
Brooke
In today's episode, our guest Dr. Joshua Hartzell, shares a powerful leadership hack, intentionally investing in the careers of those around you. Josh is a retired Army Colonel as well as a boarded certified Internist and Infections Disease Physician.
Rahul
So Josh, one of our sections is Leadership Hacks. So what's one Leadership Hack to become a more caring leader as a healthcare professional?
Josh
Yeah so probably the one that I use the most is I am on constant lookout for ways that I can invest in people's careers. Every interaction I have with somebody, unless it's maybe a clinical, but even then I'm probably like thinking about this is, OK Rahul works for me, what could I do to help Rahul's career? What could I do to help him be more successful, right? Now some days that may just simply be like, “Hey Rahul how can I help you today? I know the service is really busy. We've got lots of consults.” But more intentionally, “Hey Rahul, I know you're interested in HIV medicine. Listen, I heard there's this HIV conference coming up. What do you think? Is that something you'd be interested in going to?” Or, “Hey Rahul, I know you're really interested in academic medicine. I have a colleague who you might want to meet, who I think would be a good connection for you.” Or, “Hey I'm writing this paper, I was thinking about it but I feel like you would be a great co-author.” So I'm always looking at whoever that person is in front of me and thinking is there something I can do to help their career. And boy, what if you worked in an organization where every time your leader was thinking about how can I help the careers of the people in front of me. And you know, that might be me giving you a piece of feedback about something that you need to learn on. It might be me putting you on a committee because you being on that committee is going to be helpful for your career or you're going to learn something that will be valuable for you. So I think yeah, my probably most prominent Leadership Hack is how can I invest in the careers of the people I'm leading.
Rahul
You live that. I can attest to it. And that blows my mind, what would a place like that look like? It would be a just an incredible place to work.
Pete
Very true.
Brooke
Thank you for listening to this mini-episode. Stay tuned for the full episode next Tuesday, where Josh draws from his military and medical experience to share what it truly means to lead with care in healthcare.
Brooke
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