Addressing Provider Well-Being Through Leadership Development

Approaches to promoting provider well-being often focus on individual behaviors aimed at decreasing the risk of burnout. However, for leaders, negative interactions with others may lead to a self-perpetuating cycle of continued negativity, which impacts well-being. This presentation will focus on how behavioral and social science can teach faculty how to manage these interactions to avoid becoming trapped in a continued trajectory of negative interaction and the related sense of discouragement, disengagement and, ultimately, burnout; the role of leadership training in promoting the well-being of leaders in academic healthcare; and why equal investment in those who are struggling and those who are thriving is prudent.