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Healthcare Executive Coaching for Medical Professionals

Elevate your healthcare management skills with Tandem Coaching.

We offer personalized executive coaching tailored to healthcare professionals. Our program enhances your decision-making abilities, improves organizational performance, and helps you tackle the healthcare industry’s challenges.

Partner with us to transform your professional capabilities and drive meaningful change in your healthcare organization.

Cherie Silas, MCC, ACTC, CEC

Welcome to Tandem Coaching!


I'm Cherie Silas, Founder and CEO, and I believe in the power of coaching to elevate leaders and transform teams.

My mission is simple: to leave you better than I find you with every encounter.

What is Healthcare Executive Coaching?

Healthcare executive coaching is your guide to professional excellence. It’s a thought-provoking process designed to help you reach your full potential in healthcare management.

Coaching is:

  • Focused on the future
  • A way to explore your unique experiences
  • Helping you realize your full potential and discover your path

Coaching is not:

  • Focused on the past
  • Diagnosing or treating problems
  • Handing you ready-made answers
  • Concentrated solely on organizational performance

Unlike mentoring or consulting, coaching helps you find your own solutions. Your coach is like a trusted advisor, helping you build on your strengths, tackle challenges, and plan for the future through one-on-one sessions.

This process is all about you – your goals, your growth, and your impact. We focus on making you more independent and able to bring your best to work. Eventually, it will open doors to greater personal and professional fulfillment.

What is the Importance of Executive Coaching?

As a healthcare executive, you deal with immense complexities daily. Staying on top of shrinking budgets, new regulations, and process changes is daunting.

So why is executive coaching increasingly vital?

Manage Stress

Coaching builds resilience, provides coping strategies, and promotes self-care so you can confront challenges without burnout.

Prioritize Wellbeing

It empowers you to balance work and life more harmoniously, directing energy towards sustaining both mental and physical health.

Sharpen Critical Skills

Coaching builds confidence in making tough calls amid ambiguity, communicating clearly despite chaos, and remaining agile to meet shifting priorities.

Reveal Hidden Talents

It helps you find your untapped abilities and managerial blindspots that may limit your effectiveness and impact.

Boost Emotional Intelligence

Managing stressed teams and anxious patients demands self-awareness, empathy, and composure – core emotional intelligence aptitudes coaching strengthens.

Support Staff Retention

Better communication and people skills can help you listen, motivate, and retain top clinical talent more effectively.

Drive Innovation

Thinking creatively is key to overcoming challenges. Coaching nurtures strategic and innovative thinking required to transform healthcare delivery.

Enhance Patient Care

You indirectly yet profoundly improve how patients experience their care under your organization’s care.

Lead Change

As healthcare policy and technologies progress, coaching equips you to inspire adaptation and growth rather than resistance.

How Does Executive Coaching Work?

Executive coaching is a blend of science and art, designed to help you grow and excel in your healthcare management role.

Here’s how it works:

Organizational Coach Training - Continuous Learning and Development

Assess Your Skills

We start by getting to know you - your strengths, challenges, and aspirations. Think of it as a personal SWOT analysis for your professional life.

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Set Clear Goals

Together, we'll define tangible, achievable objectives. What do you want to accomplish? Where do you see yourself in the future?

Clear Pathways to Certification

Craft Your Roadmap

We'll create a personalized coaching plan tailored to your needs. This isn't a one-size-fits-all approach - it's all about you.

Experience First-Hand Quality

Regular Check-Ins

Through one-on-one sessions, we'll work on developing your skills and tackling real-world challenges.

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Track and Adjust

We'll keep you accountable, celebrate your wins, and refine our approach. It's all about continuous improvement.

We challenge you to reach your full potential while providing comprehensive support throughout. Ready to start your journey?

What Can You Expect From a Tandem Coaching Executive Coaching Program?

With Tandem Coaching, you’re not getting a one-size-fits-all approach. Our program is as unique as you are.

Here’s what you can look forward to:

  • An ICF-credentialed executive coach matched to your needs
  • Assessments revealing your strengths and improvement areas
  • Concrete development goals tied to your role’s objectives
  • Weekly or Bi-weekly coaching sessions
  • Complete confidentiality and a judgment-free zone
  • Practical strategies aligned to your ambitions
  • Consistent follow-ups to sustain motivation
  • Safe space to brainstorm ideas and challenges

About Our Executive Coaching Process

At Tandem Coaching, we use our proven ASPIRE® model to guide you through your healthcare executive coaching journey. This approach puts you in the driver’s seat of your development.

It has six key phases:

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1. Assess Opportunities

We start by identifying strengths and improvement areas using assessments and open discussion. We use tools like ProfileXT, Genos EQ, and 360 assessments to understand how you and your medical team think and behave in your healthcare setting.

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2. Strategize Proactively

Next, we create a strategic growth plan based on assessment insights. This plan forms the foundation for boosting patient care, staff efficiency, and overall performance across your medical facility.

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3. Plan Coaching Process

We'll create a coaching plan tailored just for you as a healthcare executive, with clear, measurable goals. This plan addresses the specific challenges of healthcare management, setting you up for success in your medical figurehead role.

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4. Inspire Performance

Our coaching sessions focus on long-term improvement in line with initial targets. Through weekly/bi-weekly meetings, we practice and enhance specific skills crucial for healthcare executives. We'll work on practical scenarios you face in your healthcare facility.

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5. Reflect on Progress

We'll regularly review your achievements in improving patient outcomes, staff satisfaction, and organizational efficiency. If needed, we'll adjust our approach to keep you moving forward in your healthcare management journey.

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6. Evolve Purposefully

As we go along, we'll have strategic discussions to reflect on your progress and ensure our coaching still aligns with your goals. This ongoing process helps you and your medical facility grow intentionally and adapt to industry changes.

How to Prepare for Executive Coaching

Ready to dive in? Here’s how to make the most of your coaching experience:

  • Maintain open and transparent communication throughout the process
  • Approach the program with a growth mindset and willingness to adopt new strategies
  • Prepare to expand your professional boundaries and explore unfamiliar territories
  • Commit to implementing learned concepts between coaching sessions
  • Allocate dedicated time for coaching and self-reflection
  • Acknowledge and value incremental progress toward your goals

Remember, this is your journey. The more you put in, the more you’ll get out.

Let’s Start Your Executive Leadership Coaching Journey Today

It’s time to step up your leadership prowess. We want to partner with you to become a prolific leader. Would you accept our offer?

Contact us to begin your executive coaching journey today!

You Got Questions. Here Are Some Answers.

Here are some common queries about our healthcare executive coaching program:

How Much Does Executive Coaching Cost?

Let’s be real – investing in yourself isn’t cheap but worth every penny. Our pricing varies based on your specific needs and program length. Think of it as an investment in your future (and your sanity). Reach out for a personalized quote.

Our coaching programs are designed for healthcare directors, medical directors, nursing executives, hospital presidents, CEOs, and other C-suite executives and senior managers committed to elevating their management.

We offer executive coaching engagements ranging from 6 months to 12 months. The duration depends on your goals and desired outcomes. We’ll work with you to find the right timeline for you.

Popular goals include improving emotional intelligence, executive presence, decision-making, communication, conflict resolution, strategic planning, and team handling. We help tailor the program to your specific growth areas.

Think of executive coaching as your career accelerator. It can help you:

  • Take on bigger roles with confidence
  • Handle complex challenges more effectively
  • Build stronger, more effective teams
  • Increase your impact and influence
  • Create a more satisfying and balanced work-life

Ready to enhance your healthcare management abilities? Reach out to us today to explore how our executive coaching program can benefit you and your organization.