Title: Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum
1Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum
- West Virginia University
- Rural Family Medicine Residency Program
2Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum
- Module 2
- Your Personal Leadership Style
3Description
Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum
- 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
4Learning Objectives Module 2
Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum
- 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
5Leadership Style
- Leadership style is the manner and approach of
- providing direction
- implementing plans
- motivating people
- ( US Army Handbook, 1973)
6Leadership Style
- Three styles of leadership commonly identified
are - - Authoritarian or Autocratic
- - Participative or Democratic
- - Delegative or Free Reign
- (US Army Handbook, 1973).
7Leadership 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
8Leadership 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
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9Leadership 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
10Why you need to know about your personal
leadership style
- Relationship awareness of self and others
- Conflict management styles
- Critical thinking abilities
- Decision making abilities
11Evaluation Tools
- Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI)
- Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal
(WGCTA) - Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)
12MBTI
- Myers Briggs Type Indicator
- Tool for understanding personality and behavior
- Developed by Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs to
make Carl Jungs 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
13Strength 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 peoples behaviors - Goal is to enable better relationships both
personally and professionally.
14Watson- 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.
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15Thomas 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 persons preferred conflict
handling style - Purpose - learn to move beyond conflict and focus
on achieving goals - Provides details about individuals use of five
modes - Competing
- Avoiding
- Accommodating
- Compromising
- Collaborating- effectively
16The 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 residents file
- Not discussed with faculty
17Summary
- 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
18Summary
- Well validated tools
- Can describe ones 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)
19Resources
- 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.
20Resources
- 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.