Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum

1. Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum West Virginia University Rural Family Medicine Residency Program

2. Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum Module 2 Your Personal Leadership Style

3. Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum Description • Funded by HRSA Grant D22HP00306 • Objective 1 • Develop a competency based longitudinal curriculum in Rural Physician Leadership Konrad C. Nau, MD Principle Investigator Chair, Dept of Family Medicine-Eastern Division WVU Rural Family Medicine Residency Program

4. Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum Learning Objectives : Module 2 • Define leadership style • Learn the importance of developing insight into your personal leadership style • Review the role of testing instruments in discovering and developing your leadership style

5. Leadership Style • Leadership style is the manner and approach of • providing direction • implementing plans • motivating people ( US Army Handbook, 1973)

6. Leadership Style • Three styles of leadership commonly identified are: - Authoritarian or Autocratic - Participative or Democratic - Delegative or Free Reign (US Army Handbook, 1973).

7. Leadership Styles • Authoritarian • Leader tells others what to do and how to do it • Does not solicit input from others • Useful when all the information is available to problem solve, time is short and followers are highly motivated

8. Leadership Styles • Participative • Leader includes one or more in the decision making process • Leader maintains the final decision making authority • Sign of strength as viewed by others • Useful in team approach

9. Leadership Styles • Delegative • Leader allows others to make decisions • Leader is ultimately responsible for the decision • Used when others are able to analyze the situation and determine what needs to be done and how to do it • Leader sets the priorities and delegates the tasks

10. Why you need to know about your personal leadership style • Relationship awareness of self and others • Conflict management styles • Critical thinking abilities • Decision making abilities

11. Evaluation Tools • Myers –Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) • Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) • Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA) • Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)

12. MBTI • Myers Briggs Type Indicator • Tool for understanding personality and behavior • Developed by Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs to make Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types available to the general public • MBTI uses a theory of preference. • Provides insight into the different ways people • view the world • relate to others • make decisions and organize their lives

13. Strength Deployment Inventory • Cornerstone tool of Relationship Awareness Theory • Self scoring motivational assessment tool • Measures an individual's Motivational value system • when things are going well • when a person faces conflict or opposition • Provides powerful insights into the motivation behind people’s behaviors • Goal is to enable better relationships both personally and professionally.

14. Watson- Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA) • WGCTA - 40 item assessment tool • Measures an individual's critical thinking skills • Critical thinking-used for drawing conclusions from facts and evidence • WGCTA produces a single score based upon five critical thinking skills • Inference • Recognition of assumptions • Deduction • Interpretations • Evaluation of arguments.

15. Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) • TKI - 30 item conflict assessment instrument for conflict resolution • It is a forced choice, self storable inventory that identifies a person’s preferred conflict handling style • Purpose - learn to move beyond conflict and focus on achieving goals • Provides details about individual’s use of five modes • Competing • Avoiding • Accommodating • Compromising • Collaborating- effectively

16. The Curriculum Process • PGY2 residents take the MBTI, SDI, WGCTA, and TKI • Group review of some “results” • Private review/interpretation session with Behavioralist and each resident • Results are strictly confidential • Not part of the resident’s file • Not discussed with faculty

17. Summary • Leadership style is the manner and approach of providng direction, implemeting plans and motivating people. • Awareness of our personal leadership style is important for • Relationship Awareness • Conflict Management • Critical Thinking Abilities

18. Summary • Well validated tools • Can describe one’s leadership style • Illustrate areas of relative strengths and weaknesses Examples • Myers –Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) • Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) • Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA) • Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)

19. Resources • Kilmann, T. and Kilmann, R.H. (1972).Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument. CPP, Inc. Palo Alto, Tx. • Myers, I. and Briggs, K . (1998). Myers- Briggs Type Indicator. CPP, Inc. Mountain View, CA.

20. Resources • Porter, E. (1996). Relationship Awareness Theory. Personal Strengths Publishing. Carlsbad, CA. • Scudder, T. (1996). Strength Deployment Inventory. Personal Strengths Publishing. Carlsbad, CA. • Watson, G. and Glaser, E. (2000). Watson- Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, Harcourt Brace& Co. San Antonia, TX.