Building Adaptive Leaders in the Southeast: The Impact of the R-IV PHTC’s Leadership Institute
Abstract
Today’s public health challenges are complex – rooted in longstanding systems and structures. Addressing these challenges in uncertain times requires adaptive leadership skills.
The Region IV Public Health Training Center (R-IV PHTC), funded by HRSA and headquartered at Emory University, serves the eight states in the southeast. The R-IV PHTC helps build and sustain a skilled workforce with free learning tools and support designed to meet the unique needs of professionals in state and local health departments.
The Public Health Leadership Institute – expanded in 2022-23 to the Public Health & Primary Care Leadership Institute (PHPC-LI), is offered by the R-IV PHTC. Through a strong partnership with the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development at the University of Georgia, the R-IV PHTC has offered the institute to 5 cohorts of emerging leaders from state, local, or tribal public health departments or FQHCs/FQHC Look-Alikes in Region IV. Each cohort of participants is diverse in gender, race and ethnicity, geography, and discipline.
The goal of this 8-month experience is to advance adaptive and strategic leadership skills. Emerging leaders explore issues in leadership practices and principles including cultural competence, managing conflict, decision making, and collaborative leadership. Each participant assesses their leadership strengths and identifies an adaptive leadership challenge on which to focus. Participants apply and share with others what they have learned.
A multi-prong approach is used to evaluate the institute’s impact. It includes session and final surveys, and qualitative data about learning and application from intersession activities and course graduation reflection statements.
This presentation will discuss the need for adaptive leadership skills and describe how the R-IV PHTC’s leadership institute advances these skills. Presenters will also share data demonstrating the impact on skill development from the first 4 cohorts of the regional leadership institute.
Keywords
Leadership Development, Adaptive Leadership, Training, Evaluation
Building Adaptive Leaders in the Southeast: The Impact of the R-IV PHTC’s Leadership Institute
Today’s public health challenges are complex – rooted in longstanding systems and structures. Addressing these challenges in uncertain times requires adaptive leadership skills.
The Region IV Public Health Training Center (R-IV PHTC), funded by HRSA and headquartered at Emory University, serves the eight states in the southeast. The R-IV PHTC helps build and sustain a skilled workforce with free learning tools and support designed to meet the unique needs of professionals in state and local health departments.
The Public Health Leadership Institute – expanded in 2022-23 to the Public Health & Primary Care Leadership Institute (PHPC-LI), is offered by the R-IV PHTC. Through a strong partnership with the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development at the University of Georgia, the R-IV PHTC has offered the institute to 5 cohorts of emerging leaders from state, local, or tribal public health departments or FQHCs/FQHC Look-Alikes in Region IV. Each cohort of participants is diverse in gender, race and ethnicity, geography, and discipline.
The goal of this 8-month experience is to advance adaptive and strategic leadership skills. Emerging leaders explore issues in leadership practices and principles including cultural competence, managing conflict, decision making, and collaborative leadership. Each participant assesses their leadership strengths and identifies an adaptive leadership challenge on which to focus. Participants apply and share with others what they have learned.
A multi-prong approach is used to evaluate the institute’s impact. It includes session and final surveys, and qualitative data about learning and application from intersession activities and course graduation reflection statements.
This presentation will discuss the need for adaptive leadership skills and describe how the R-IV PHTC’s leadership institute advances these skills. Presenters will also share data demonstrating the impact on skill development from the first 4 cohorts of the regional leadership institute.
