Exploring Leadership
Evidence-Based Leadership Frameworks
This content will describe the key attributes and structures of evidence-based leadership frameworks. You’ll explore how opportunities and styles for leadership vary in professional, cultural, and career stage contexts. What are the key attributes of being a leader? You’ll also learn how to distinguish and differentiate a leader from a manager and mentor, and reflect on your own experiences with leadership.
Course Module Introduction
Learning Objectives
- Describe the key attributes and structures of evidence-based leadership frameworks;
- Distinguish and differentiate leadership from management and mentorship;
- Reflect on your perceptions of and experiences with leadership;
- Explore how opportunities/styles for leadership vary in professional, cultural, career stage contexts;
- Apply a leadership approach to a current or future care.
Activities
- Learning to Lead
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What does leadership look like?
Activity
Word cloud activity on leadership qualities:
- In a single word, express a positive characteristic of a leader.
- In a single word, express a negative characteristic of a leader.
- Using a last name, identify a leader that embodies the leadership qualities you most admire from the past or present day.
- What comes up for you when you reflect on these word clouds around leadership?
- What are you seeing that’s different or similar?
- How might cultural perspectives inform your thinking?
Self-Reflection Prompts
- Think of one positive leadership experience that you had (either as a leader or as a member of a team, group, or community). What leadership behaviors made that experience positive or negative for you?
- Think of one negative leadership experience that you had (either as a leader or as a member of a team, group, or community). What leadership behaviors made that experience positive or negative for you?
- Self-Assessment
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Introducing Self-Assessment
Self-Reflection Prompts
In my own words, what does this information tell me about my leadership?
Activity
This optional reading may help participants understand bias in leadership assessments: 3 Strategies to Reduce Bias in Leadership Assessments
The following self-assessment tools are discussed in the video above.
- DISC Personality Test
- DISC Personality Example Report
- High 5 Test (the free alternative to StrengthsFinder)
View or download examples of various self-assessment tools here:
- Exploring Leadership Frameworks
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Exploring Leadership Frameworks with Adam Goodman
Adam Goodman and Postdocs Explore Leadership
- Comparing Leadership, Mentorship, and Management
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Comparing Leader, Mentor and Manager
- Applying a Leadership Approach to Your Career Context
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Activity tied with InterSECT Job Sims
Activity
Choose one of the selected Job Simulations that interests you (not in a classic leadership role) from the list below and complete the associated tasks.
Self-Reflection Prompts
- What are the opportunities or moments within these simulations where a person in this job could demonstrate leadership, even though the role may not be a leadership-type position?
- If you were in this job and completed the work described in the simulation, how might you pitch the outcomes toward a new leadership opportunity?
Wrap-Up
Course Module References
- 123 Test. (2020, November 19). DISC Personality Test.
- American Historical Association. (n.d.). Mentoring.
- Byers-Winston, A. & Lund Dahlberg, M. (2019). The Effective Mentorship in STEMM. The National Academies Press.
- Coach4Growth.com. (n.d.). Leadership vs. management: What are the Characteristics of aLeader and a Manager.
- Dugan, J.P. (2017). Leadership Theory: Cultivating Critical Perspectives. John Wiley & Sons.
- Goodman, A. (n.d.). Denny’s Relationship Table.
- Hardesty, C. (2009, April 7). What do Managers do? The Wall Street Journal.
- High5Test. (2020). High 5 Test.
- Krietner, R. 1995. Management (book).
- Indeed Editorial Team. (2020, December 3). What Are the Responsibilities of a Manager?
- Inzer, L. & Crawford, C. (2005). A Review of Formal and Informal Mentoring. The Journal ofLeadership Education, 4(1): 31-50. DOI 10.12806/V4/I1/TF2
- Pfund C. et al. (2016), Defining Attributes and Metrics of Effective Research Mentoring Relationships, AIDS and Behavior, Suppl 2: 238-48;
- McGee, R.M. et al. (2016), Biomedical Workforce Diversity: The Context for Mentoring to Develop Talents and Foster Success Within the ‘Pipeline’, AIDS and Behavior, Suppl 2:231-237.
Additional Resources
Leadership
- Leadership Styles & Frameworks You Should Know (VeryWell Mind)
- Top 5 Leadership Qualities to Prepare you for Success (Northeastern)
- 23 Leadership Characteristics to be a Good Leader (Indeed)
Mentorship
Self-Assessments
- Strengths Finder
- High 5 Test (free alternative to Strengths Finder)
- 123 Test