The document provides summaries of presentations given at a women's healthcare leadership retreat on various topics for professional and personal development. In 3 sentences: The first presentation discussed balancing priorities by setting clear expectations, knowing your limits, evaluating needs, and finding help. Another presentation focused on intrapreneurship and changing organizations from within by bringing in outside experts, assessing readiness for change, and fostering a culture of new ideas. A third presentation addressed marketing yourself through defining your mission, editing your story, embracing change, and knowing your audience.

1. Pro-Tips From Female
Leaders in Healthcare
XX Retreat DC
June 2, 2013

2. The Tightrope Walk: Balancing
Between Priorities
Define your structure
• Set explicit expectations for
your schedule
• Know your limits and
boundaries
Accept that you can’t do
everything
• Evaluate what you need
• Change work or change
expectations accordingly
Negotiate and
communicate
• Nothing will happen unless
you ask
Find the right help
• Make time for you
Make yourself
accountable
• Seek positive peer
pressure
Be the boss!

3. Intrapreneurship: Changing
Organizations from the Inside Out
Bring in an expert
• Help the organization reflect,
strategize, and look inside
• Provides third party validation
Assess your organization
• Are they ready for the big
innovation or the little
innovation?
Make the case for change
• Assess risk and benefit
• Understand the centers of
power
Get buy in
• Create connections at all
levels, across teams
• Foster collaboration and
participation for innovation
Create a culture that
fosters new thinking
• Invite people to questions
processes, and plans

4. How to Market Yourself and
Tell Your Story
Use social media
Define your personal
mission and point of view
Edit your story
Embrace the path
Be future oriented
Image is important
Perception is reality
Be authentic
Show your personality
Know your audience
Meet people where they are and
take them on your journey
Get coached

5. Get Comfortable with Being
Uncomfortable: Managing Risk
Discard your assumptions. Think
with the other side of your brain
Foster transparency
Learn to create a “relaxed”
physiological state
Have confidence in yourself
Put yourself in others’ shoes
Balance consequences of not
managing risks due to
discomfort

6. Getting to Yes: Closing Your First
Deal
CONFIDENCE!
Do your homework
• Know what success looks
like for you and them
• Identify deal-breakers and
areas for negotiations
Define the relationship
• Know the target and key
players including resisters
• Understand the climate
• Aim for a strategic
introduction
Tap into your arsenal of tactics
• Flexibility
• Ability to say no
• Alternatives
• Framing as a win-win
• Saving sticky points for the end
• Avoidance of desperation
• Closing of each step and definition
of action items

7. Your Most Important Life Choice:
Choosing the Right Partner
Know who you are and
what you need before
finding someone else
Balance expectations
Recognize the good
Find a partner who
embraces you AND
your goals
Be malleable. Life is full
of change

8. The Customer is Always Right:
Listening to and Engaging Your Users
Collect feedback but
remember to be a product
visionary
Be open to feedback even
if it is negative
It’s never too early to put a
product in front of a
consumer
Watch for what your
customers do, not what
they say
Pick the right channels to
communicate and use the
right language

9. The Revolving Door: From the Public
Sector to Private Sector and Back Again
Why the public sector?
• Affect change on a large
scale
Barriers to entering the
public sector
• Hiring process is lengthy
• Structure is complex
Barriers to entering the
private sector
• Translating experience to
business needs
Why the private sector?
• Ability to have boots on the
ground to implement change
• Hands-on experience
Solutions to entering the
public sector
• Connect with people in
government to learn the
landscape
• Understand where you
would fit
Solutions to entering the
private sector
• Get mentors to brainstorm
next steps
• Leverage your network

10. Developing Mentor and Sponsor
Relationships Throughout Your Career
Availability is key
• Have clear expectations
• Appreciate helping
Trust is important
• Must admit needs, problems
• Articulate goals, options
• Overcome and adapt to
different perspectives
Foster your brain trust
• Build relationships with
different people who have
varied perspectives, skills and
expertise
Seek micro- and macro-level
sponsors and mentors
• Sponsors within your company
for short-term goals
• Mentors outside your company
for long-term career focus
Define the mutual benefit
• Seek ways that you can help
each other
Maintain contact and build
relationships

11. Going Under, Over, and Around:
Navigating Workplace Obstacles
Know when to hold ‘em,
know when to fold ‘em
Create an environment
conducive to getting
things done
Manage your own path Use your voice
Sometimes it is better to ask
for forgiveness rather than
ask for permission

12. Lifehacking: How to Use Tech and
Outsourcing to be More Productive
Outsource
• Hire someone for household
tasks where possible (ie.
cleaning, groceries)
Prepare
• Have healthy food available,
convenient
• Take a cab if needed
• Order online
Develop your team and
delegate
• Allows them to grow
• Reduces your stress
Turn off
• Switch off gadgets
• Set boundaries for “Off”
time
Do less
• Creativity needs space
Foster supportive female
relationships
• Multitask activities (eg.
exercise, laundry dates)

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