Leading Transformation: Lessons Learned in the United States

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Leading Transformation Lessons Learned in the
United States

• A. Kathryn Power, M.Ed., Director
• Center for Mental Health Services

Edinburgh, Scotland June 8, 2006
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Leadership Competencies

• Managing Information Knowledge
• Inquisitive Mind Critical
• Thinking To Apply Research
• Findings
• Measures Performance
• Breakthrough
• Technologies
• Networking

• Continuous Personal Development
• Wide Range of
• Leadership Styles
• Personal Values,
• Vision, Goals
• Risk-taking Courage
• Resilient Resolute

• Mental Health Future
• Recovery-oriented
• Science ltgt Service
• Evidence-based Practices
• Elimination of Disparities
• Interagency Perspectives
• Consumer Family-Relevant
• Outcomes

• Trans. Management
• Org. System Shifts
• Learning
• Congregate Vision
• Innovation
• Strategic Alliances
• Mgmt. of Collaborative Relationships

Transformation Leadership Competency

• Process Toolkit
• Negotiation Skills
• Dispute Conflict
• Resolution
• Group Facilitation
• Concept Mapping,
• Future Casting,
• Lateral Thinking

• Business Acumen
• Financing Strategies
• Organizational Dynamics
• Human Resource Development
• Internal/External Radar
• Marketing Branding

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Continuous Personal Development

• Wide range of leadership styles

• Personal values, vision, and goals

• Risk-taking and courage

• Resilient and resolute

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John Kotters Eight Steps of Leading Change
Implementing and sustaining change
Engaging and enabling the whole organization
Creating a climate for change
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Increase Urgency
Build the Guiding Team
Get the Right Vision
Communicate for Buy-In
Empower Action
Create Short-Term Wins
Dont Let Up
Make It Stick
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Eight Steps of Change Phase I
Creating a climate for change
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Increase Urgency
Build the Guiding Team
Get the Right Vision
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Federal Partners Workgroup
Department of Health and Human
Services AoA NIH/NIDA ACF NIH/NIMH
AHRQ HHS/OS CDC - ASPE CMS - OCR
HRSA - OD IHS - OPHS SAMHSA
Other Partners Department of Agriculture Departmen
t of Education Department of Defense Department
of Housing and Urban Development Department of
Justice Department of Labor Department of
Transportation Department of Veterans Affairs
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Social
Security Administration
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Eight Steps of Change Phase II
Engaging and enabling the whole organization
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Communicate for Buy-In
Empower Action
Create Short-Term Wins
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Eight Steps of Change Phase III
Implementing and sustaining change
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Dont Let Up
Make It Stick
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Federal Action Agenda
Getting the vision right From inspiration to
action and accountability
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Transformation In Action
Washington Telehealth services in underserved
areas
Connecticut Memorandum of understanding with 14
collaborating agencies
Ohio Advocate for families of children and youth
with behavioral challenges
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• Every day you may make progress.
• Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will
  stretch out before you an ever-lengthening,
  ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know
  you will never get to the end of the journey.
  But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to
  the joy of the climb.
• Winston Churchill