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Leadership Opportunities in Your Institution and Beyond…or…

Deborah J Lightner, M.D. Professor of Urology Immediate Past Chair, AUA Guidelines Past Medical Director, Office of Staff Services

SAU Feb 10, 2018 9:30 AM

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• No disclosures.

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Do you want to be a leader?

Good things • Power of your ideas. • Burning Platform. • Getting Things Done. • Enhancing CV. • Ego enhancement.

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Do you want to be a leader? Good things

• Power • Burning Platform • Getting Things Done • Enhancing CV • Ego enhancement

Not so good things • No informed consent! • Dealing with transitions both in

and out of leadership. • Increased & unpredictable

workload. • Achievable goals? Not so much. • Being alone. • Responsibility for dealing with

tragedies and errors. • On-call public spokesperson. • Loss of personal privacy/time. • Being on-call 24/7. • Being targeted by others. • Poorer performance feedback

loops. • Inevitable loss of leadership.

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Leadership is also much harder now… A leader has to be competent and comfortable

• more often “title-less,” without prestige.

• being observed & observing closely. • repeating frequently & not get off message. • being repeatedly measured & measuring. • with personnel issues.

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You could just aspire to be a memorable but unsuccessful leader, like these.

Assuming that this is not your plan, do you have what the job requires? Do you have adequate supports?

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So you still want to be a good leader?

1. Learn a lot. 2. Observe a lot. 3. No complaining. 4. Develop a posse.

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You want to be a good leader? 1. Learn!

Books don’t help.

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Learn!

• Do you have time for transitioning? • Coaching: both of individuals & teams. Non-reimbursed.

Good coaches will observe and honestly report to you and you and your team “A blind spot anywhere is a vulnerability everywhere” Dr. Tom Frieden, CDC

The best coach will work you VERY HARD!

You asked for it, didn’t you?

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Wait, there’s more to Learn!

Know the past. Know the facts on the ground . Know the different constituencies. Know how and when to say “no” with tact and tenacity. Predict the future.

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2. Observe!

Need to define and align with the culture. Can you comply?

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The person and perceptions of power

• Language, true oratory. • Body language. • Decorum, Clothing. • Is your posse also powerful?

Here’s a master!

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3. No complaining!

A face is not a reliable witness.

A leader’s safest, least misinterpreted expression is to genuinely smile all the time.

Can you do that? Here’s that Master again!!!

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3. No complaining!

Can you accept that some will hate you? And they’ll tell everyone what a disaster you are? Still smiling?

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4. Develop a posse

Get & use powerful & reliable supports.

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Supports should strong both above & below you!

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Wait there’s more! So far this has been about you…

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What were you chosen for?

Long-term “change” • Defining & sticking to long-

term but often unachievable goals &/or fixes

Short-term fix • Disaster leader/hero • To take the blame

Placeholder • Warming

the throne • Powerless

Beware all diverse candidates!

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And what kind of leader is needed now?

• Observe the organization’s current leaders. • While leadership styles can flex, your personality

doesn’t, values don’t. • Identify your internal and external weaknesses. Fix

them. “Styles”:

Authentic-autocratic-laissez-faire-transformational-transactional-bureaucratic-charismatic-visionary-participative-delegative-directive-supportive-achievement oriented

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And when leadership is over, what did you accomplish?

• Legacy building. • New leaders. • New directions. • Satisfactory

change, or even revolution.

Or this…

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So, ya’ wanna be a leader?

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• Learn a lot & get a coach!

• Observe a lot and keep watching…

• No complaining- always smiling.

• Develop your posse.

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