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MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact
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| Author | Adaira Landry, Resa E. Lewiss |
|---|---|
| Genre | Nonfiction – Business & Money, Nonfiction – Self Help |
| Release Date | April 16, 2024 |
| Publisher | Hanover Square |
Description
The promise of this book is simple: if you buy this book on Friday, you will be better at your job by Monday.
MicroSkills is built on one core, easy-to-learn principle: every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into small, learnable, skills that can be practiced, and incorporated real-time. We call these: MicroSkills.
As award winning physicians, educators, and mentors we hear the gamut of challenges with navigating the workplace. And when we learn a lesson we often wish we had learned it earlier. MicroSkills is packed with the privileged information that you want delivered to you as efficiently as possible.
In MicroSkills you will learn
- How to build your career without breaking yourself
- How to manage your task list to get work done
- How to build and maintain your professional reputation
- How to become a subject matter expert
- How to grow and nurture your network
- How to become a better communicator
- and so much more…
MicroSkills is the gift we wish we had received early in our careers.
About the Authors
Adaira Landry, MD MEd is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. She is a keynote speaker and focuses her workshops and lectures on mentorship and workplace efficiency. She is a former Assistant Residency Director for the Harvard Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She is now an Academic Society Associate Director and Advisor for the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Landry is the Co-Chair for the Diversity and Inclusion Committee within the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice. She is former Co-Director of a national mentoring program, Diversity Mentoring Initiative, hosted by national organizations Emergency Medicine Residents Association and Academic College of Emergency Physicians. She is an advisor for Academic Life in Emergency Medicine, a leading medical education online resource.Â
Dr. Landry was raised in Rialto, California. While she had the love and support of her parents, she lacked mentorship and training on how to navigate the educational system and the workplace. Through her best efforts, in 2002, she attended University of California, Berkeley to study Molecular Cell Biology and African American Studies. She completed her medical school training at David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles in 2011, her Emergency Medicine Residency at New York University as Chief Resident in 2015, and a combined fellowship in Ultrasound at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a master’s degree in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education program in 2017. Her academic interests focus on mentorship of underrepresented students and trainees. In 2020 she published in Harvard Business Review on mentorship. She was awarded Massachusetts General Brigham Outstanding Mentor Award and EMRA Mentor of the Year Award for her dedication to mentorship. In addition, she speaks nationally on strategies to optimize mentor-mentee relationships. She has completed the Women’s Leadership Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has published in NEJM, Science, Nature, Academic Medicine, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Women’s Health Magazine.
Today she is also a wife and a mother to 3 children. She hopes to raise her 3 children to understand and value the importance of supporting others in need.
Resa E Lewiss MD is a Professor of Emergency Medicine. A TEDMED speaker and TimesUp Healthcare founder, she’s an internationally renowned point-of-care ultrasound educator and champion for diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces.
She attended college at Brown University , medical school at the University of Pennsylvania , Emergency Medicine residency at Harvard hospitals, and fellowship at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Roosevelt. Her design focus has been ultrasound hardware and workflows. She’s helped to redesign the built environment of a Harvard ICU and an infectious diseases unit in Malawi.
As host and founder of the Visible Voices Podcast, she’s interviewed dozens of subject matter experts in healthcare, equity, and current trends. Her writings are published in the popular press and scientific journals, such as Harvard Business Review, Slate, Nature, and Fast Company. Her new book, MicroSkills is forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2024.
