Implementation of Health Reform along with the aging of our population will significantly increase the demand for health leaders and professionals. The challenge is that shortages and mal-distribution already exist in many key health professions and tidal waves of retirements are on the horizon from our current aging workforce. This "Perfect Health Workforce Storm" creates serious concerns about who will take care of us but is a major opportunity for you.  You could not be pursuing health…

My wife and I get The Oprah Magazine. It always has great insights into choosing and living the life and career that fits who you really are.  The February issue had a feature called “You in Six Words” http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Six-Word-Memoirs-O-Magazine-Mini-Memoirs/1.  It was inspired by a 5 year project by Smith Magazine in which they asked people to describe their lives in six…

Establishing your Goals and Action Plan for 2012

Last week I talked about the value of written goals and an action plan. To help you establish your authentic health career goals and action plan, I encourage you to consider the following 3-step process. To make it easy I have attached a document with a format that you might find useful. 

The steps are:

1.    Use the My Authentic Health Career Framework to focus on goals that will help you…