Be a Power Leader in Residency and in Practice With These Tips (with Dr. Ben Hechler)

Dec 5, 2022

Dr. Ben Hechler, an OMFS, shares tips on leadership during residency, emphasizing the importance of community, responsibility, and effective communication. He discusses the power of collaborative work, planning, and risk mitigation, and defines a good leader as one who empowers, enables, and enhances. The podcast also briefly touches on television show preferences and the danger of selectively seeking information.

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

Developing Leadership Skills in Residency

03:13 • 4min

Importance of Effective Communication and Leadership in a Medical Setting

07:19 • 31min

Qualities of a Good Leader and Dealing with Micromanagement

38:37 • 11min

Television Show Preferences and Korean Dramas

49:31 • 4min

Justifying our beliefs, aging, and a closing message

53:13 • 3min

There are many ways to be a leader, but there aren’t nearly as many ways to do it properly. At the end of the day, your focus needs to be on the community that you are leading and teaching, not your own image. In today’s episode Dr. Ben Hechler, an OMFS, explains how to determine, create, and successfully use leadership styles and skills during residency. Drawing on his own experiences of being a subordinate and a leader, Ben reflects on how easily we forget the challenges of being an underdog once we find some success, and explains why it is time to break the cycle and reshape the way you think about leading your subordinates. Plus, you’ll learn why he places such a high value on planning, risk mitigation, open communication, and collaborative work!

Key Points From This Episode:

How to become a leader in residency.
Why it is important to take responsibility: especially for your failures.
You cannot focus on your own image.
It is time to stop playing the blame game.
Why you need to help your subordinates understand the purpose of tasks.
The power of effective communication.
Ben shares his experience with effective team structure and management.
Collaborative versus competitive work.
How a patient will perceive badmouthing experiences.
Never underestimate good, effective communication.
Ben’s advice for prioritizing, planning, and mitigating risk.
Ben's leadership tips: empower, enable, and enhance.
What defines a good leader?

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Dr. Ben Hechler on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hechler/

Extreme Ownership — https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs/dp/1250067057

The Patient on Hulu — https://www.hulu.com/series/the-patient-4d9ad5b3-6925-4e94-9b0b-49b9f8cf81f2

The Plant Paradox — https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Paradox-Dangers-Healthy-Disease/dp/006242713X

Everyday Oral Surgery Website — https://www.everydayoralsurgery.com/

Everyday Oral Surgery on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/everydayoralsurgery/

Everyday Oral Surgery on Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/EverydayOralSurgery/

Dr. Grant Stucki Email — grantstucki@gmail.com

Dr. Grant Stucki Phone — 720-441-6059

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