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Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter

The Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter offers concise, actionable leadership strategies for healthcare professionals. Delivered weekly, each issue features a short video, motivational insights, and expert resources, empowering you to enhance your leadership skills efficiently and effectively.

Tags: careeradvancement

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Mentorship vs. Sponsorship: If You Don’t Know the Difference, You’re Limiting Growth.

Mentorship and sponsorship are often used interchangeably. They shouldn’t be. While both are essential to leadership development and career progression, they serve very different purposes. And when leaders misunderstand or collapse the distinction, growth stalls in ways that are often invi...

Feb 11, 2026 advocacy allyship careeradvancement genderequity growth healthcareleadership leadership leadershipdevelopment learning mentorship physicianleadership sponsorship

Mentorship Is Not a Nice-to-Have. It’s a Performance Strategy.

Mentorship is often talked about as a generous act. A “good leader” behavior. Something nice to do when you have time. That framing sells it short. Mentorship isn’t a soft extra layered on top of “real work.” It is real work. And when done well, it’s a powerful performance strategy; for ...

Feb 04, 2026 careeradvancement curiosity growth healthcareleadership humility leadership leadershipdevelopment learning mentorship performance physicianleadership sponsorship

The Confidence Paradox: Why Trying to “Feel Ready” Keeps You Stuck

Confidence doesn’t come before action, it follows it. Let’s talk about how to move forward without delay. You probably know the pattern well: a big opportunity appears (a new role, a bold idea, a public platform), and instead of excitement, your first instinct is hesitation or even dread. You...

Aug 26, 2025 careeradvancement certainty confidence decisionmaking doubt failure fear growth healthcareleadership impostersyndrome leadership performance physicianleadership potential success uncertainty

The Power of Networking: How to Build Meaningful Career Connections

Your network is your net worth’ might be a leadership cliché, but like many clichés, it’s stuck around for a reason: it’s true. According to LinkedIn, 70% of professionals hired in 2016 had a connection at their company. And 80% say networking is vital to their career success. Still, for ma...

Jun 03, 2025 advancement career careeradvancement connections curiosity generosity growth humility leadership learning networking relationships success

Want to Advance Your Career? Start Telegraphing Your Pass

In football, quarterbacks are told never to telegraph their pass. Giving away their next move makes it easy for the defense to block the play. But in leadership and career growth, the exact opposite is true. If you want to move forward, you need to make your goals crystal clear to the people ...

Mar 24, 2025 #executivecoaching #healthcareleadership #leadership #leadershipcoaching #success careeradvancement clarity goals mentorship networking sponsorship

Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter

The Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter offers concise, actionable leadership strategies for healthcare professionals. Delivered weekly, each issue features a short video, motivational insights, and expert resources, empowering you to enhance your leadership skills efficiently and effectively.

Tags: careeradvancement

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