Center for Leadership
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Center for Leadership
13201 Bruce B. Downs Blvd, MDC 56
Tampa, Fl 33612-3805
Leadership Resources
2018-2019 Florida Department of Health Public Health Executive Leadership Cohort in Tallahassee
The challenges leaders face are growing increasingly complex and the world more volatile and unpredictable. Leaders of the 21st Century must be well grounded as people and able to work effectively in such environments to create the conditions that foster the type of collaborations that produce leaders at all levels and enhance adaptability.
Our website strives to support your efforts as adaptive, authentic and collaborative leaders.
Please peruse our monthly blog and provide feedback to help us provide the most useful and relevant content. We will continue our effort to develop both on line and in person content to enhance your leadership journey as you work to innovate and create solutions to those issues which most impact our individual and collective health and well-being.
Blog
- November 2019 - Public Health Leaders as Social Innovators-Facilitating systems change by starting with ourselves
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Other Leadership Resources
In this section, we make recommendations for resources to assist you on your leadership journey. As you come upon other useful resources, please share them with us using our Feedback tab above.
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Finding Self and Unleashing your Authentic Leader
Resources in this category are geared to understanding one’s self – the foundational relationship. Additional resources are recommended to help evolve your authentic and adaptive leader.
Recommendations:
- Seven ways to develop your authentic leadership style
- Deepak Chopra: 7 powerful traits of highly effective leaders.
- TED talk: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
- High Impact Leadership: The Importance of Self Awareness
- George, B. et al. Discovering Your Authentic Leadership In: HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW. 2007. 85(2):129-140.
- Dweck, Carol: Developing a Growth Mindset
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Strategies for Positive Interpersonal and Group Dynamics
How to build trust, enhance effective teamwork and create the conditions for innovation and creativity.
Recommendations:
- How great leaders inspire action
- How to speak so that people want to listen
- Managing conflict effectively: Five simple strategies for transforming conflicts and improving relationships
- Burkus, D. (2013, May). Innovation isn’t an idea problem. Harvard Business Review.
- Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2015). You can teach someone to be more creative. Harvard Business Review.
- Fossett, J., Gilchrist, D., & Luca, M. (2018, November). Using experiments to launch new products. Harvard Business Review.
- Hill, L. A., Brandeau, G., Truelove, E., & Lineback, K. (2014, June). Collective genius. Harvard Business Review.
- Liedtka, J., & MacLaren, E. (2018, November). How Children’s Health System of Texas is improving care with design thinking. Harvard Business Review.
- May, M. E. (2013, January). How intelligence constraints drive creativity. Harvard Business Review.
- McGregor, L., & Doshi, N. (2018, November). How to motivate frontline employees. Harvard Business Review.
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2017, June). How do public sector organisations innovate?
- Satell, G. (2018, December). Set the conditions for anyone on your team to be creative. Harvard Business Review.
- Teller, A. (2016, February). The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure [video]. TED.
- Teller, A. (2016, July). Failure, innovation, and engineering culture [video]. Re:Work with Google.
- Thomke, S., & Manzi, J. (2014, December). The discipline of business experimentation. Harvard Business Review.
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Managing Complexity and Uncertainty
The public health field operates in a multifaceted and complex system that can overwhelm practitioners. In this section, we recommend resources on systems thinking, development and communication of key massages, and leading in uncertainty.
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