| Janet
Bickel, M.A. |
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Janet Bickel partners with individuals to build resilient careers and with organizations to realize their human potentials. Over 110 academic health centers and universities and dozens of professional societies and other organizations have invited her presentations and consultations.
Janet Bickel's Services include:
Career and Leadership Development Coaching
I collaborate with physicians and scientists to maximize their return on their investment in their education and career. Guided by easily administered diagnostics, coaching accelerates insights into both personal strengths and potential derailers, facilitating smoother navigation through change, complex problem-solving, alignment of priorities and decisions with core values, and often enhanced career satisfaction and personal balance. Coaching also builds skills in negotiating, adding power to communications, building staff, having a more positive impact on others and handling difficult conversations. Coaching can focus specifically on maximizing success in a new role.
If it is time to move on, this coaching encompasses refining your CV and crafting other self-presentation documents from which your accomplishments shine; maximizing the impact of your networking and interviewing; assessing opportunities; and negotiating the best package.
Certification to administer:
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Center for Creative Leadership's Benchmarks and all other multi-rater feedback instruments
EQ [Emotional Intelligence] In Relationship profile
I partner with institutions, academic societies and organizations to improve team functioning and the development of people at all levels. Services include design of more effective group processes and meetings, accountability systems, and leadership development programs.
Related services include:
- Emotional Intelligence and 360-degree evaluations and coaching of key administrators
- Strategic planning
- Departmental retreats
- Organizational and departmental mentoring and career advising programs
Faculty Career Consultant
Faculty are an academic institution’s greatest asset, and faculty productivity and vitality depend on institutional commitment to their continuing engagement and learning. I customize faculty career management programs for administrators, faculty and trainees to the needs of the institution, for instance:
- Skill-building programs for faculty and trainees to better
manage their own careers and professional growth - Interventions to support department and division heads’
management and development of faculty - New Faculty Orientation
- Career self-assessment tools for faculty (and other resources
to made available on institutional website) - Design, implementation and evaluation of mentoring
program
Janet Bickel’s current appointments include Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Education at George Washington University School of Medicine. Other recent activities have included Visiting Associate Dean of Faculty at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, design of a Leadership Development Curriculum for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, coaching in a new US Department of Health and Human Services Leadership Development program, and teaching Leadership and Innovation at the National Reconnaissance Office..
During the 25 years prior to creating Janet Bickel & Associates, she held positions of increasing national leadership at the Association of American Medical Colleges, including Associate Vice President for Medical School Affairs and Director of the Office of Women in Medicine. Ms. Bickel has published broadly, with over 40 peer-reviewed articles, including the widely cited “Generation X: Implications for Faculty Recruitment and Development in Academic Health Centers” (Academic Medicine, March 2005). Her two books have also garnered high praise: Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education (U. of Iowa Press, 2000) and Women in Medicine: Getting in, Growing and Advancing (Sage Pub. Inc., 2000).
Between 1972-76, Ms. Bickel served as admissions, financial aid and student affairs officer for the then new Brown University Medical School. She holds a M.A. in sociology from Brown University and an A.B. in English from University of Missouri-Columbia