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Leadership Part 1: Defining
Your Leadership Style
UW LEAH Seminar
Laura Richardson, MD, MPH
Goals for This Talk
• Define leadership
• Discuss the difference between leadership and
management
• Reflect on individual leadership qualities
What makes someone a leader?
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
Kouzes & Poser Leadership Model
Leaders:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Challenge the Process
Inspire Shared Vision
Enable Others to Act
Model the Way
Encourage the Heart
Where do Leaders Operate?
Beyond Imagination
That’s Impossible
That’s Difficult
Easy to
Do
**From the MCH Leadership Development Series
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
Management versus Leadership
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
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
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.
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
Transactional versus
Transformational Leaders
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
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
How does one become a leader in
Maternal Child Health?
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Interview with an MCH
professional - 2
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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
Video: What it takes to start a
movement.
• http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Ted+t
alk+how+to+start+a+movement&mid=B66A
CC4998AB66BF7FC7B66ACC4998AB66BF7F
C7&view=detail&FORM=VIRE8
Other Resources
• MCH Leadership Development Series:
http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-andinstitutes/womens-and-childrens-health-policycenter/MCHLDS/
• Other TED Talk on Leadership:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tony+robbins+t
ed+talk&mid=A95684DC20AB785572DFA95684DC2
0AB785572DF&view=detail&FORM=VIRE4