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LEADERSHIP: POTENTIAL AND POSSIBILITIES

LEADERSHIP: POTENTIAL AND POSSIBILITIES. Prof Sue Frost. Themes………………. Nature of Leadership Context and environment Models, tools and skills Leadership and power Leadership and organisational change Leadership styles Leadership and organisational learning

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LEADERSHIP: POTENTIAL AND POSSIBILITIES

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  1. LEADERSHIP: POTENTIAL AND POSSIBILITIES Prof Sue Frost

  2. Themes……………….. • Nature of Leadership • Context and environment • Models, tools and skills • Leadership and power • Leadership and organisational change • Leadership styles • Leadership and organisational learning • Leadership and personal development

  3. Nature of Leadership…………. • References and sources • Leadership, management and administration • Learning organisations • Leadership behaviour • Situational leadership • Leaders as followers • Strategic thinking

  4. Context and Environment…. • Complexity of health care • History of leadership • Managing policy change • Creative solutions • Wicked problems • Soft systems • Use of conflict • Boundaries: virtual and real

  5. More environment………... • Expectations and meaning in leadership • Threats and Opportunities • The total work culture • General vs specialist leadership • Joined up thinking • Nature of change

  6. Models of Leadership……... • Situational • Goal oriented • Transformational leadership • Skill based leadership • Knowledge based leaders • Leadership & Management

  7. “the performance of a group is contingent upon both the motivational system of the leader and the degree to which the leader has control and influence in a particular situation - the “situation favourableness” (Fiedler 1974) Situational Leadership

  8. Situational variables: • Interpersonal relations • Task structure and clarity • Formal authority or position (reward power)

  9. Transformational Leadership • Bennis & Nanus • transformation through translation of vision into reality • sharing power • using influence • rational persuasion • decision identification

  10. Skills/characteristics Leadership: • Vision • Planning • Knowing • Strategy/risk • Managing • Personals and Interpersonal skills • Presence and mastery • Resource initiators • Political operating/influencing

  11. Tools…………. • Support team • Information (and technology) • Systems and processes • Time • Development (insight) • Environment

  12. Leadership styles • Task or people • Assertive/Passive • Drivers • Democrats • Dependables • Detailers

  13. Leadership and organisational learning • Reflectivity • Education • Evidence and knowledge • Planning as learning • Innovation and creative solutions

  14. Leadership and the person • Being part of the problem and the solution • Deep and surface learning • Dealing with conflict • Being part of the problem and the solution • Subconscious forces (espoused theories and theories in use) • Leadership development

  15. Some sources……... • Leadership in Nursing. Wedderburn C & Tate MChurchill Livingstone • http://www.google.com/ (excellent meta-search engine that will find sites more quickly) • http://www.doh.gov.uk/dhhome.htm (Dep of Health website) • “Helping Doctors who manage learn from their experience” J Riley Kings Fund 1997

  16. More sources….. • Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing. Leddy S & Pepper J M. Lippincott 1998 • http://www.shef.ac.uk/~nhcon/nuuk.htm (Catalogue of all nursing websites - great for searching on themes)

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