Leadership Skills for Health Professionals: Strategies for Managing Change

1
Leadership Skills for Health Professionals
Strategies for Managing Change

• Dr. Jeff Wiseman, MD
• Dr. Pierre Guy, MD, MBA

2
Plenary Leading Change

• Leadership styles and skills the
  Hersey-Blanchard situational leadership model
  (Jeff Wiseman)
• Managing and leading change Kotters eight step
  model (Pierre Guy)

3
Leaders are born, not made.

• Do you agree?

4
Definition of Leadership

• A process through which one tries to get
  others to do something that one desires.
• The incremental influence one has on others
  that is beyond ones formal authority

5
A Leader Can Be.

• FORMAL
• Formal authority varying amounts of
  incremental influence
• e.g. quarterback
• department head

• INFORMAL
• No formal authority but lots of incremental
  influence
• e.g. heart and soul
• of the team
• older clinician

6
Leader versus Manager
7
Leader versus Manager

• Leaders
• Establish direction
• Align people
• Motivate and inspire
• Produce change
• Look forward

• Managers
• Plan budget
• Organize staff
• Problem solve
• Produce order
• predictability
• Move things forward

8
Effective Leadership Depends Upon

• HOW you behave, your leadership style
• WHO your followers are their competence and
  motivation for a given task
• The MATCH between the how and the who
• WHAT Leadership skills you can apply

9
WHO?
SITUATIONALLEADERSHIPMODEL
WHAT?
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
HOW?
10

• WHO?
• Followers readiness

SITUATIONALLEADERSHIPMODEL
WHAT? Leadership Skills
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

• HOW?
• Leaders style

11
(No Transcript)
12
(No Transcript)
13
(No Transcript)
14
WHO?
SITUATIONALLEADERSHIPMODEL
WHAT?
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
HOW?
15
What are the skills of an effective leader?

• -----------------------------------------------
• -----------------------------------------------
• -----------------------------------------------
• -----------------------------------------------
• -----------------------------------------------

16
Leaders are born, not made.

• Do you agree?

17
(No Transcript)
18
What leadership skills would be needed for this
situation?