• Core Competencies

  Managing Self

  • Integrity/Honesty
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Continual Learning
  • Resilience
  • Communication
  • Flexibility
  • Problem Solving
  • Political Savvy
  • Wellness/Time Management

  Managing Projects

  • Team Building
  • Accountability
  • Decisiveness
  • Negotiating

  Managing Others

  • Conflict Management
  • Diversity
  • Developing Others

  
  *A needs assessment will be given to assess the needs of the particular group and the competencies and classes adjusted accordingly for the group.

• Expectations

  Residents will apply for the program and be invited to participate; maximum group size is 15. Applications will be required with a short response to “Why are you interested in taking a leadership elective?” Applications will be reviewed by leadership team and class selected.
  
  Residents are expected to attend and participate in each session; they will be excused from clinical duties during the meeting time. Meetings will occur on one Sunday evening 4-6 pm at an attending’s home, unless an exception is made for guest faculty.
  
  Residents are expected to provide a reflective assignment in response to the content of each session that will be done at the end of each session prior to leaving for the evening. Residents will also be expected to provide one critique that would improve the session.
  
  If a resident fails to attend two sessions without prior arrangement, they will be removed from the elective and will not be eligible to reapply in subsequent years.
  
  Facilitator will provide all materials in ample time for the residents to read and prepare for each session.

  Visiting faculty will be utilized for the elective as appropriate. This may result in adaptation of the schedule as proposed.
  
  Residents who complete the elective will have a letter documenting their participation placed into their residency records by the facilitator.

• Course Objectives

  • Residents will consider leadership from a variety of perspectives
  • Residents will create a definition of leadership consonant with their level of experience
  • Residents will appraise their leadership styles, strengths, and challenges
  • Residents will design methods for setting and attaining goals as an individual and within a group
  • Residents will construct plans for developing and maintaining effective teams
  • Obtain skills that develop and differentiate leaders in surgery by learning core competencies throughout the course

Sessions

• 1 - Leadership Styles

  Pre-work: Review the six leadership styles posters. Identify the style that you identify with the most. Identify the style that you would most like to develop.
  
  Reading: Goleman, D. "Leadership That Gets Results" (HBR, March-April 2005).
  
  Session:
  00:00-00:05--Stand next to the poster of the leadership style you identify with the most
  00:05-00:15--Introduce yourself to another person who chose the same style as you.
  
  Each person should answer the following 2 questions:
  When has this style served you well?
  When has this style NOT served you well?
  
  00:15-00:30--Summary of the styles and overview of resonance/dissonance
  00:30-00:40--Move to the leadership style poster that you most want to develop
  
  Introduce yourself to a person at your poster and each person answer the following 2 questions:
  What would be the benefit if you developed this style?
  What would be the benefit to your team?
  
  00:40-00:50--Feed forward activity.
  Ask each individual which leadership style describes them the best. Ask, "How can I be more of a _______ style leader?". One-two sentence answer.
  
  00:50-00:60--Share results of each style's effect on climate
  
  BREAK for dinner
  
  2nd hour:
  Complete Course Needs Assessment (paper copy will be provided to you)
  Describe a "not primary to you" leadership style that would serve you well to develop and lay out a plan for developing that style
  Please provide at least one critique that could have improved this session
  
  Competencies Addressed:
  Integrity/honesty, interpersonal skills, continual learning, resilience, communication
  

• 2 - High-functioning Teams

  Pre-work: Write down the top 3 reasons why you think teams fail to perform at a high level
  
  Take the teamwork quiz
  
  Reading: Lencioni, Patrick. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Pages 185-190 and 195-207.
  
  Session:
  00:00-00:10--In groups of 3, compare your answers from the teamwork quiz.
  Come up with your top 3 reasons why teams fail
  
  00:10-00:25--Share results with group.
  Build the 5 dysfunctions pyramid
  
  00:25-00:35--Discuss outcomes when unsuccessful at each level of the pyramid
  00:35-00:50--Strategies to achieve success at building the base of the pyramid
  00:50-00:60--Discuss quiz answers
  
  BREAK for Dinner
  
  2nd hour:
  Reflective assignment: Please provide at least one critique that could have improved this session
  Please write down 1-2 specifics things that you could do this week to improve your service teams function.
  
  Competencies Addressed:
  Team building, accountability, decisiveness, negotiating
  

• 3 - Resiliency and Dealing with Complications

  No Pre-reading
  
  00:00-00:15- Review of leadership styles and high functioning teams
  00:15-1:15- Interactive session on physician resiliency (led by Dr. Eiferman)
  01:15-1:45- Dinner
  01:45-2:00- Feedback and Wrap
  
  Journal Reflection:
  What tenets from today's session can you integrate into your everyday work that will help you build your resilience as well as help your colleagues.

• 4 - Negotiation

  GUEST SPEAKER: Robert Lount, PhD
  
  Pre work: TBD
  
  00:00-00:05- Introduction of guest
  00:05-00:30- Negotiation exercise
  00:30-00:40-Data analysis
  00:40-00:60-Negotiation strategies
  
  BREAK for dinner
  
  2nd hour:
  Please provide at least one critique that could have improved this session
  
  Reflective assignment:
  Describe a situation that you have been involved in or that you have observed first-hand where both parties wanted the same thing but the outcome was sub-optimal. What skills/tools did you learn tonight that could have resulted in a better resolution?

• Subsequent Classes

  Remainder of classes for the 2020 academic year:

  January 12 – Giving an effective presentation
  February 16 – Leadership styles
  March 15 – How adults learn/becoming an effective teacher
  April 19 – Running a meeting
  May 17 – Party