Leading as an Introvert: Navigating Leadership Challenges in an Extroverted World
Physician Health First® free online CME
While leadership characteristics are typically associated with extroversion, quieter inclinations should not impede your opportunities to lead.
In this free presentation, join KrisEmily McCrory, MD, FAAFP, and Jason Marker, MD, MPA, FAAFP, as they explore ways in which introverts lead differently than extroverts and how to manage the emotional leadership toll. For those who are already comfortable leading, you’ll broaden your understanding of the challenges introverts face in an extroverted world.
- Introversion vs. extroversion
- Leading meetings
- Addressing conflict
- Project leadership
- Networking
While leadership characteristics are typically associated with extroversion, quieter inclinations should not impede your opportunities to lead.
In this free presentation, join KrisEmily McCrory, MD, FAAFP, and Jason Marker, MD, MPA, FAAFP, as they explore ways in which introverts lead differently than extroverts and how to manage the emotional leadership toll. For those who are already comfortable leading, you’ll broaden your understanding of the challenges introverts face in an extroverted world.
- Introversion vs. extroversion
- Leading meetings
- Addressing conflict
- Project leadership
- Networking
Learning Objectives
Identify two ways introverts lead differently from extroverts and how this can have a direct impact on your practice.
Develop a plan for leadership within your practice that accounts for family physicians who are introverts and how they interact with their patients.
List at least one strategy for introverts to network effectively in a primarily extroverted environment.
Additional details
Jason Marker, MD, FAAFP
Associate director, clinic director at the Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency, South Bend, Indiana; General chair of the AAFP Leading Physician Well-being Certificate Program
KrisEmily McCrory, MD, MEd, FAAFP
Practices full scope academic family medicine; associate program director for Cheshire Medical Center-Dartmouth Health Family Medicine Residency Program
Physician Health First: Building Resiliency Intersectionally During Graduate Education (BRIDGE) is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $2,200,002 with zero percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.
CME credit statement
The AAFP has reviewed Leading as an Introvert: Navigating Leadership Challenges in an Extroverted World and deemed it acceptable for up to .75 Enduring AAFP Prescribed credits. Term of Approval is from 6/19/2024 to 4/17/2027. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed credit, not as Category 1.
CME activities approved for AAFP credit are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.