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Happy physicians deliver better care and better outcomes. That’s why you can’t afford not to advocate for yourself.

Simply Worth It helps female physicians like you get the comp package you want, deliver great care, & stay in practice longer.

Hosted by Linda Street, board-certified Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist & life coach specializing in physician negotiations.

Nov 18, 2021

In the context of business, operating leverage dictates the health and value of a company. As physicians, we can use this concept to evaluate what we get out of our jobs, and make sure it’s giving us more than it takes from us. 

 

If our jobs deplete us so much that we end up running on empty, it’s time to dig into the operating leverage of daily work, and consider some micro-negotiations that can make it better. 

 

How do we calculate our own operating leverage? If our job is taking more than it’s giving us, what changes can we make? In this episode, I talk about how we can get the operating leverage equation to work in our favor. 



Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode 

 

- The ideal work environment for physicians 

What factors make a job somewhere we can actually thrive, not just break even in terms of our energy?

 

- Signs that our jobs are draining our energy in an unhealthy way

How can we accurately pinpoint those bane-of-existence tasks that deplete our energy? 

 

- How to change your mindset about a draining task 

If a task at work is depleting more energy than we’d like and we can’t opt out of it, how do we shift our mindset?