Send us a text

All of us are leaders and need to have good leadership skills. In this episode of Doctors at Work, Nitin and I reflect on how we learnt about leadership, the challenges we faced, and we discuss what good leadership looks like. Top tips include learning to manage yourself, knowing what success means to you personally, observing others, and asking for others' critical feedback. See transcript for meeting summary.

You might also like episode 98 on impostor syndrome, and Doctors at Work has multiple other podcast episodes on leadership.

Nitin Shrotri is a Consultant Urologist, who was awarded the BAUS Gold Medal for 2022, and has recently been appointed as Visiting Professor at the Institute of Medicine at the University of Bolton and also as Vice Chair at the Centre for Race Equality in Medicine. Before this he was BMA UK Council member between 2020-22 and a member of the GMC BME Forum last year. You can connect with Nitin on LinkedIn, on X and Insta (both @PeaPeaspot), and read his writings at nitinshrotri.com.

Listen at https://matdaniel.net/podcast/; https://open.spotify.com/show/1j8uLaUU1g5bYTRVuwUX7j?si=672ec26a73164d7f; https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/doctors-at-work/id1701284564; or watch on www.youtube.com/@dr-coach/videos.
Production: Shot by Polachek

You can find out more about Mat's coaching to help doctors create successful and meaningful careers at www.MatDaniel.net.

Send us a text

Great leadership at all levels is essential. In this episode of Doctors at Work, Fiona Day tells me that it start with knowing your own values and strengths, and consciously choosing the behaviours that you display. Much of what senior leaders do is highly complex, and this potentially can contribute to burnout - so regularly checking your own stress levels and proactively managing these is really important. We are all leaders, and leadership is an ongoing journey of learning, and she encourages us all to always have some leadership development in our personal learning plans.

Dr Fiona Day is the world’s only Leadership Coach with advanced coaching psychology, medical and public health qualifications (MBChB, FFPH, BPS Chartered Psychologist in Coaching Psychology, EMCC Master Practitioner Coach & Mentor) and is in a unique position to help medical leaders and their teams to flourish. She specialises in coaching medical and public health leaders, is an accredited Coach Supervisor and Coach Educator, and holds EMCC’s EQA Foundation Training Award. Get 3 hours of FREE CPD with Fiona’s ‘Health Career Success Programme’ here. Find out more www.fionadayconsulting.co.uk ; read her three recent peer-reviewed articles in BMJ leader here; and connect on @fionadayconsulting.bsky.social and https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionadayconsulting/

Listen at https://matdaniel.net/podcast/; https://open.spotify.com/show/1j8uLaUU1g5bYTRVuwUX7j?si=672ec26a73164d7f; https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/doctors-at-work/id1701284564; or watch on www.youtube.com/@dr-coach/videos.
Production: Shot by Polachek

Send us a text

Michael Akadiri is a doctor and a comedian. In this episode of Doctors at Work, we talk about how he made career decisions that pivoted from full time surgery into mostly comedy. He tells me that managing uncertainty can be challenging, and this can be helped by focusing on what he can influence. We talk about the importance of recognising how a career fits into one's whole life, and the need to marry up your passion with realistic career prospects in the future. See transcript for meeting summary.

Michael Akadiri is multi-award winning comedian and junior doctor who has starred in Comedy Central LIVE, ITVs Stand Up Sketch and most recently Channel 4s Stand Up to Cancer. His natural charm and charisma saw his debut show, No Scrubs nominated for the Biggest Award in Comedy. He is touring his sophomore show, Trust Me I'm a Daddy, around the UK Sept-Nov 2024. Find him at https://www.instagram.com/michaelakadiri/; https://www.tiktok.com/@michaelakadiri; https://x.com/MichaelAkadiri; https://youtube.com/@michaelakadiricomedy?si=WoCuuL0TkCqB1GPR

Listen at https://matdaniel.net/podcast/; https://open.spotify.com/show/1j8uLaUU1g5bYTRVuwUX7j?si=672ec26a73164d7f; https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/doctors-at-work/id1701284564; or watch on www.youtube.com/@dr-coach/videos.
Production: Shot by Polachek

You can find out more about Mat's coaching to help doctors create successful and meaningful careers at www.MatDaniel.net.