Leadership Lecture Flashcards
What are the key parts of the Healthcare Leadership Model?
Centered around - inspiring shared purpose
Listening with care
Engaging the team
Influencing for results
Evaluating information
Connecting our service
Developing capability
What is the triat theory of leadership?
Assumes people posses certain qualities and traits (born - more than acquired) that make them better suited to leadership
What are the traits associated with the trait theories of leadership?
High energy level
High stress tolerance
Self-confidence
Internal locus of control
Emotional maturity
Personal integrity
Socialised power motivation
Achievement orientation
Low need for affilitation
What are the 10 points of the essence of effective leadership?
- help interpret meaning of events
- Create direction/alignment around strategies and objectives
- Nurture commitment and optimism
- Encourage trust and cooperation
- Create a sense of collective identity
- Organise and coordinate work efforts
- Enable collective learning
- Ensure necessary resources are available
- Develop and empower people
- Promote social justice and mortality
What are the three styles of leadership?
Authoritarin (autocratic) leadership
Laissez-Faire (delegative leadership)
Participative (democratic leadership)
What is an authoritarian (autocratic) leadership style?
Managers have power to make decisions without others opinions
ONly one person or group have authority
What is Laissez-faire (delegative) leadership?
Gives work to team members and allow to work according to their knowledge -> they have the power to share their opinion.
What is a participative (democratic) leadership style?
All team members or employees have equal power to give their opinion in decision-making process.
Leaders still make the final decision
What are transactional leaders in healthcare?
When followers are moved to completes roles as agreed with a leader in exchange for a reward
Goal orientated
Rewards and punishment for motivation
Reactive in nature
What are the features of transformational leaders?
Move followers to awareness about what is important and away from own self-interest
Focus on vision
Use charisma and enthusiasm for motivation
Are proactive in nature
What are the benefits of transformational leaders in healthcare?
Improved patient care
Higher employee satisfaction
Employee empowerment
Reduced turnover
Lower costs
What two traits are considered in the behavioural theory of leadership?
Initiating structure - task orientated - leader goals orientated provides clear instructions
Consideration - people orientated, trust, respect and appreciation of others ideas and feelings
These skills can be learnt and developed through actions and behaviours
How does the balance between initiating structure and consideration influence leadership type by the behavioural theory of leadership?
High C and low IS -> supporting/collaborating
High C and high IS -> coaching
Low C and Low IS -> delegating
Low C and high IS -> directing
What is the John Adair theory of action centered leadership?
Effective leadership must balance these three priorities
Task - the goal
individual - needs of each individual in the team such as motivation
Team - collaboration and community
How can each element of the Adair task, team, individual theory of leadership influence the outcome?
What is Kotters 8-step change model?
Used to guide teams/leaders through change management through a series of steps.
Focuses on leadership, communication and employeeengagement.
What are the 8 steps in Kotters 8-step model for change management?
01 - create - sense of urgency/desire for change
02 - build - a guiding coalition/team to make change
03 - form a plan to follow
04 - enlist - communicate plan
05 - enable - empower people to follow plan
06 - generate - come up with short term goals
07 - sustain - use gains to continue change
08 - institute - change in workplace culture
What is the emotional intelligence model of leadership?
Good leaders have good awareness and action for themselves and others - this has high emotional intelligence having a positive impact
