April 19, 2004

1. Assessment in MCH Training Programs: Working Towards Data-driven Standards of Excellence in Leadership Education April 19, 2004

2. key questions • What contributes to leadership? • How does leadership develop? • How can leadership and its development be measured? • What are the best ways to provide effective, evaluative feedback that tracks the development of leadership?

3. the process • analysis of leadership narratives • focus groups of program participants

4. qualitative analyses • coding decisions and rules • limitations of the data

5. leadership reports by program type Program type # Programs describing trainees # Trainees cited # Programs describing faculty # Faculty cited LEAH 5 10 6 14 LEND 32 95 31 58 PPC 6 24 7 36 PH 12 28 11 21 Total 55 157 55 129

6. disciplines represented

7. cited trainees’ completion years

8. activities and behaviors

9. relationships between behaviors & activities and MCH Performance Measures • academics • clinical • public health/public policy • advocacy

10. findings • many descriptors matched Performance Measures • an exception: collaboration • public health/public policy and advocacy descriptors rare

11. focus group participants Program type # Programs # Program directors or other leaders # Training directors # Trainees 12 PPC 6 LEAH 7 10 LEND 24 10 10 19 Total 19 37 32 10

12. conceptual clusters who trainees are workplace skills past accomplishments personal characteristics organization initiative knowledge Interpersonal skills family- centered care active participation in learning demonstrates applications of learning interaction/ communication problem solving collaboration

13. guiding principles • our ideas about leadership evolve and change over time

14. dissertations on leadership

15. guiding principles • our ideas about leadership evolve and change over time • leadership consists of an interaction of traits and behaviors

16. guiding principles • our ideas about leadership evolve and change over time • leadership consists of an interaction of traits and behaviors • leadership is developmental in nature

17. guiding principles • our ideas about leadership evolve and change over time • leadership consists of an interaction of traits and behaviors • leadership is developmental in nature • leadership can be assigned or it can emerge spontaneously

18. guiding principles • our ideas about leadership evolve and change over time • leadership consists of an interaction of traits and behaviors • leadership is developmental in nature • leadership can be assigned or it can emerge spontaneously • there are cultural dimensions to the notion of leadership

19. guiding principles • there are cultural dimensions to the notion of leadership • leadership and management are not the same

20. guiding principles • there are cultural dimensions to the notion of leadership • leadership and management are not the same • issues of leaders and followers

21. guiding principles • there are cultural dimensions to the notion of leadership • leadership and management are not the same • issues of leaders and followers • leadership as an inherently ethical concept

22. next steps • ?

23. key questions • What contributes to leadership? • How does leadership develop? • How can leadership and its development be measured? • What are the best ways to provide effective, evaluative feedback that tracks the development of leadership?

24. key questions • What contributes to leadership? • How does leadership develop? • How can leadership and its development be measured? • What are the best ways to provide effective, evaluative feedback that tracks the development of leadership?

25. The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X