Brigit Friedrich, Managing Director of Swiss HRmed, has worked with women's football teams from the AXA Women's Super League to create workshops that offer a fresh perspective on leadership and team development and highlight numerous parallels between women's football and teams in the healthcare sector. The characteristics of women's football - power mentality, leadership, fighting spirit, performance under pressure, versatility and teamwork - are also familiar and relatable to healthcare teams.
These workshops are about sharing new ideas, leadership and team building methods from women's soccer that you can implement and use in your daily work in healthcare. Are you also interested in how these top athletes in women's soccer shine every week with positive energy in the team and grow personally at the same time? How do they manage to keep motivation high in every match? Let women's soccer inspire you!
Interview workshop women's soccer: Gerda Gaudenz - Adelheid Clinic
Workshop presented by: Ms. Marisa Wunderlin, head coach of the 1st women's team FC St.Gallen
Location: Espenmoos stadium
One motivation for me is the parallels that women's football has with the healthcare teams. It is also a women's team that, like in nursing, is combative and performance-oriented.
Secondly, I wanted to take my team completely out of the healthcare sector, give them a different perspective on leadership and inspire them.
I wanted to introduce the management team to a different leadership method from another area in order to integrate it into their work. And give them other ideas for increasing motivation, team spirit and positivity, as well as tools for dealing with disappointment.
We experienced the workshop and especially the head coach of the 1st women's team FC St.Gallen, Marisa, as very powerful. It is impressive how she managed to speak so powerfully and positively for two hours about how she leads and wants to lead her team. It was very infectious and we would like to transfer this positivity to our teams. So it shows that what you radiate yourself reflects on the team.
One ward manager even said: "Can't we take Marisa with us? It would be great to have such an enthusiastic, motivated team player in the clinic." This is certainly a sign that the workshop had a very positive effect.
The expectations I had of the workshop were completely exceeded. My gut feeling told me that we needed a different perspective.
It was fun to get an insight into women's football and to see how many similarities there are. It was very informative and inspiring.
I was particularly impressed by the authenticity that Marisa radiates. Her positive and sincere charisma ensures that she gets this energy back twice as much from her team. Just like the respectful interaction within the entire team and the positive charisma that can be seen in every player.
The players are encouraged and challenged individually and can also contribute their ideas. Of course, not every idea can be implemented, but the individual players are taken seriously and attempts are made to find a compromise/solution. With this solution-oriented approach, she also transfers responsibility to her team, which creates team spirit and intrinsic motivation.
I hope we can maintain our positive attitude and fighting spirit. The football we received is the anchor for this. I will keep bringing it out at the meetings to remind us of the positive and powerful feeling of the workshop. And if that feeling fades or is not there at the moment, the question is: what do we need to get that feeling back?
Even after more than 6 years, almost every weekend feels like a mini-vacation! This is due to the many attractive (outdoor) activities you can do here and the beautiful surroundings. It never gets boring!
In a personal meeting with Brigit Friedrich from Swiss HRmed, I was very well informed about what this means and what it takes to make the move to Switzerland.
The language concept is a fascinating and inspiring experience for me, both in terms of learning the language and discovering new places and people.
