Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum

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Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum

• West Virginia University
• Rural Family Medicine Residency Program

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Rural Physician Leadership Curriculum

• Module 2
• Your Personal Leadership Style

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Description
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
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Learning 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

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Leadership Style

• Leadership style is the manner and approach of
• providing direction
• implementing plans
• motivating people
• ( US Army Handbook, 1973)

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Leadership Style

• Three styles of leadership commonly identified
  are
• - Authoritarian or Autocratic
• - Participative or Democratic
• - Delegative or Free Reign
• (US Army Handbook, 1973).

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Leadership 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

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Leadership 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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Leadership 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

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Why you need to know about your personal
leadership style

• Relationship awareness of self and others
• Conflict management styles
• Critical thinking abilities
• Decision making abilities

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Evaluation Tools

• Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI)
• Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal
  (WGCTA)
• Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)

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MBTI

• 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

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Strength 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.

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Watson- 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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Thomas 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

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The 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

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Summary

• 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

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Summary

• 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)

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Resources

• 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.

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Resources

• 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.