All the Feels: How to Deal with Conflicting Emotions Around a Negotiation
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street
Release Date: 05/25/2023
Before you Burn your Noncompete....
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street
Hey ya'll! We're coming back from our hiatus for a special edition episode where I discuss the FTC ruling about noncompetes with non other than Ann Bittinger JD. Ann is a healthcare contract attorney who's my go to for all things physician contracts and we discuss what this means for you AND how to use it even while things are ambiguous and clear as mud.... You can find Ann at bittingerlaw.com and as always you can find me at Stay tuned! I'm hoping to resurrect the podcast for a new season soon Also please bear with me! This was an unscheduled add in because of this being such an...
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How to Expect the Unexpected in Negotiation (and Plan for It)
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street
Even if you have all your ducks in a row, negotiations can throw us something completely unexpected. One left-field comment can take the wind out of our sails and derail our plans. Instead of letting your brain pull an amygdala hijack and respond rashly, there is a safety lever that will allow us to respond in our best light. How do we respond to the unexpected without sabotaging ourselves? In this episode, I share how to deal with something you weren’t ready for in a negotiation. Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode ...
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Negotiation for Physicians: How to Ask For What You Want Without Fear or Guilt with Dr. Katrina Ubell
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street
The pay gap in medicine is something we’re all too familiar with. While some of it is certainly systemic and structural - there is a mindset piece where we have to bring ourselves to the table. To get jobs and packages that align with our worth, we have to learn to ask for what we want. Between our societal and medical socialization, that can be hard to do, but not impossible. How do we overcome the mindset blocks that make it hard to advocate for ourselves? Why is preparation so critical to our success at the negotiating table? In this episode, I join...
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Physicians Who Lead Part 4: How Do We Have Better Conversations?
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street
Conversations are the lifeblood of all human interaction. Leading others and advocating for ourselves is impossible without having effective conversations. From the normal ones we don’t have to prepare for, to the sensitive ones we run over and over in our heads, getting good at conversations is a worthy investment. What sets a conversation up for success? How can we use conversations to co-create better solutions? In this episode, we conclude our series with Talent Strategy and Leadership Consultant, and founder and CEO of 304 Coaching, Jen Thornton. Today, we dive...
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Physicians Who Lead Part 3: Leading People Doing Jobs You're Not Familiar With w/Jen Thornton
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street
Having an exceptional clinical skill set doesn’t magically translate into great leadership in a world that’s evolving at breakneck speed. At some point we’ll find ourselves leading people whose jobs we don’t know how to do, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be effective leaders. Whether we’re working with different specialties or people with an entirely different skill set and perspective, we have to approach the challenge like CEOs. How do we gain the confidence to lead in an unfamiliar area? What are the key skills we need to...
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Physicians Who Lead Part 2: How to Win the Mindset Game
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street
When we try to wrap our heads around why leadership is so challenging, we’ll soon discover that the mindset piece is what gets in our way. Our mental state is the foundation upon which great leadership is placed, and being a great leader begins with our own relationship with ourselves. When that foundation is stuck in a reactive space, it’s hard for us to truly show up as our best selves, and that trickles into our teams and organizations. Who are the 3 horsemen of the reactive leadership apocalypse? How do we take a less stressful approach to leadership? ...
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Physicians Who Lead Part 1: The First Step to Effective Leadership with Jen Thornton
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street
As physicians, we’re seen as leaders, but leading in an industry that has become more corporate is challenging. Even though we’re accomplished in our careers, administrative leadership doesn’t always come naturally to us. Adding to this the barriers we encounter as female physicians, leading well can be especially important. Unfortunately, we’re still using leadership techniques from generations past, so we have to create something new so we can thrive. How do we lead effectively in this new world without sacrificing who we are? In this...
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Normalization and Negotiation: A Combination You Must Use to Your Advantage
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street
As the physician landscape continues to change, how we practice medicine looks different to how it was done before. The more we normalize this change, the better off we’ll be and the more effectively we can advocate for ourselves. There’s so much room for us to do our jobs better and to make them more sustainable. In order to achieve that though, we have to get comfortable with experimentation and doing things differently. How do we use normalization to our favor? In this episode, I share how to use change to your advantage in a negotiation. ...
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When Work Lives Rent-Free in Your Head, Evict It
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street
Our jobs naturally occupy a fair amount of our time and mental space. When that follows us off the clock, we’re letting work live rent free in our heads. Of course, there are times we’re brainstorming solutions creatively, but I’m talking about the silent vent sessions and brain tantrums that sap our energy and make work feel even harder. How do we stop thinking about work when we aren’t at work? Today, you’ll learn what to do when work starts to dominate your thoughts, round the clock. Three Things You’ll Learn In This...
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Is Your Career Consistent with the Legacy You Want to Leave Behind?
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street
In our negotiations, we’re typically laser focused on that particular job and how it aligns with our lives now, but sometimes we have to zoom out. Sometimes we have to take a 30,000 ft. view and ask ourselves - is this career consistent with the legacy we want to leave behind. In a perfect situation, we want to look back at our careers and express pride and joy with what we accomplished, but we all know that’s not always the case in medicine. A lot of us look at this job as something we were called to do but something that’s soul-sucking. Is there anything we...
info_outlineAn impending negotiation can spark many different emotions, from anticipation and hope to nervousness and even dread. What if all those emotions show up all at once, creating a simmering stew of overwhelm? Not good.
We’re not always going to go into a negotiation feeling 100% positive about it, and that’s okay. It’s important, however, to parse through those emotions so we can effectively go to bat for ourselves.
How do we work through a hodgepodge of emotions if the negotiation has us all over the place?
In this episode, I talk about getting into the right headspace if you’re feeling all the things.
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
- A thought download exercise
If the negotiation is bringing up all sorts of feelings, how do we sort through them?
- Fact vs. story
Can we decide the thoughts we want to show up with even if parts of the situation are out of our control?
- Choose success ahead of time
Agreement or no agreement, how do we make sure we come out of a negotiation feeling good about ourselves?