1. Leadership Part 1: Defining Your Leadership Style UW LEAH Seminar Laura Richardson, MD, MPH

2. Goals for This Talk • Define leadership • Discuss the difference between leadership and management • Reflect on individual leadership qualities

3. What makes someone a leader?

4. What are the key qualities of a leader? • Passion and heart • Ability to communicate and inspire shared vision • Self-reflection and awareness • Willingness to share (power, successes, failures) • Ability to operate under uncertainty • Focus on the big picture

5. Kouzes & Poser Leadership Model Leaders: • Challenge the Process • Inspire Shared Vision • Enable Others to Act • Model the Way • Encourage the Heart

6. Where do Leaders Operate? Beyond Imagination That’sImpossible That’s Difficult Easy to Do **From the MCH Leadership Development Series

7. Leaders Operate in Many Spheres • Research and the creation of new knowledge or technology • Design of new organizational structures and schema: challenging the status quo • Caretakers of the well-being of others • Teachers and nurturers of values and learning • Enablers of action in others

8. Management: Coping with complexity Ensuring order and consistency Planning and budgeting Organizing and staffing to accomplish objectives Problem solving Leadership Nurturing and delivering of change Setting the direction Developing and sharing a vision Aligning people Motivating and inspiring Management versus Leadership

10. How are Leaders Made? History of Leadership Theories • Great Man Theory (1840s) • Assumed that leadership was intrinsic • Leaders are born…not made • Trait Leadership Theory (1930’s-1940’s) • People are made with certain qualities that will make them excel in leadership roles • but which qualities and in what combination? • Early start to behavioral theories

11. Leadership Theories (continued) • Behavioral Theories (1940’s-1950’s) • A leader’s behavior is the best predictor of his leadership influence and success • 3 groups of leaders: people oriented, task oriented, and participatory oriented • Leadership can be taught • Contingency Theories (1960’s) • There is no single way of leading: leadership style should be based on situation.

12. Leadership Theories (continued) • Transactional Leadership Theories (1970’s) • Leadership is formed through a series of mutually beneficial exchanges: if you do this for me, I will do this for you • Followers will choose a leader that maximizes their pleasurable experiences and minimizes negatives • Transformational Leadership Theories (1970’s) • Leader’s transform their followers through their inspirational nature and charismatic personalities such that followers identify with the leader and its purpose • Rules and regulations are guided by group norms

13. Transactional Leaders Focus on maintaining the status quo Work within the existing organizational culture Relate to followers by exchanges/transactions Are reactive Transformational Leaders Focus on change and communicate clear vision Address the needs and values of the organization Address the needs and values of followers Are proactive Transactional versus Transformational Leaders

14. Skills and Competencies of a MCH Leader • Challenge the Process • Embrace and promote change • Build and communicate shared vision • Encourage heart and passion • Reinforcing the “why” • Team building and collaboration • Nurturing the team and enabling others to act • Political knowledge and finesse

15. How does one become a leader in Maternal Child Health? http://www.jhsph.edu/custom/mod_staticvideoplayer/_includes/cfm/popupVideo.cfm?src=CentersInstitutes/WomensChildrensHealthPolicyCenter/mch/Interviews/28learningtolead.flv

16. Interview with an MCH professional - 2 http://www.jhsph.edu/custom/mod_staticvideoplayer/_includes/cfm/popupVideo.cfm?src=CentersInstitutes/WomensChildrensHealthPolicyCenter/mch/Interviews/1learningtolead2.flv

17. Key Points • Management and leadership have different purposes and may require different skill sets • Both skill sets are critical for effectiveness leaders should also be good managers • Leaders are focused on change • Leaders inspire others to work toward change • True leaders are not ego driven

18. Video: What it takes to start a movement. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Ted+talk+how+to+start+a+movement&mid=B66ACC4998AB66BF7FC7B66ACC4998AB66BF7FC7&view=detail&FORM=VIRE8

19. Other Resources • MCH Leadership Development Series: http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/womens-and-childrens-health-policy-center/MCHLDS/ • Other TED Talk on Leadership: http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tony+robbins+ted+talk&mid=A95684DC20AB785572DFA95684DC20AB785572DF&view=detail&FORM=VIRE4