The Center for Medical Simulation

Destigmatizing Failure | Curious Now 46

The Center for Medical Simulation

Show Notes

People are going to make mistakes. As the leader of a team, how do we help people move from the mindset of failure as a character flaw to seeing failure as a moment for growth?: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822

How do we separate out the part of us that’s aware that mistakes are required from us for growth and the part that feels like we’ve done a crime when we make an error? We can know intellectually that preventable error is a part of experience, but still have a part that wants to be perfect and experiences shame when we aren’t.

Workout of the week: Reframe a mistake that you or someone else made in a way that allows you to learn from it productively.

Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/

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