Monthly Archives: September, 2012

Posted: September 12th, 2012

Authentic Leadership may be for you if you say YES to any or all of the following:

1. I work in some capacity to improve public health/maternal and child health.
2. I want to forge my own path to leadership.
3. I want a new role/responsibility/job/career in public health.
4. I want to increase my level of satisfaction/engagement at work.
5. I want to be in a program that invites me to co-design my learning and growth areas.
6. I want to explore what makes me a leader.
7. I want to self-identify as a leader.
8. I want to feel alive, satisfied, and passion-filled about my professional and personal decisions.
9. I want time and space to self-reflect.
10. I appreciate (or want to appreciate) the value of self-awareness related to leadership.
11. I have a leadership style that is different from everyone else’s style.
12. Nobody understands me.
13. I want to learn how to say yes to things that are most important to me and no to those things that are not currently a priority.
14. I want someone else to help hold me accountable for what I say I want.
15. I am tired of doing things in public health the same old way.
16. I want to feel confident and secure in who I am.
17. I want to focus on building my leadership strengths.
18. I want a smooth transition into retirement.
19. I want to shake things up in my life/work.
20. I want to have greater impact in my work or life.
21. I want more confidence.
22. I want to feel the fire in my belly.
23. I want to trust myself (more).
24. I want my own certified professional coach.
25. I want to have fun while I learn.
26. I want to be in a program that doesn’t feel like more work added to my current, crazy workload.
27. I am tired, burned out, overwhelmed.
28. I am frustrated with the status quo.
29. I can’t remember why I got into public health.
30. I have a brilliant idea that I want to develop.
31. I am innovative, passionate, creative and believe there are new ways to improve public health.

1. I have been unsuccessfully looking outside myself for the answers to my questions.
2. I want to create meaningful connections to others exploring leadership in the MCH field.

Posted: September 12th, 2012

If you decide to enroll in Authentic Leadership, ou can expect to:

1)      Identify a set of authentic, individualized, values based personal/professional goals that support your leadership development and the impact you want to make in public health.

2)      Assess your current level of satisfaction with your personal and professional life.

3)      Improve your level of satisfaction in a minimum two life areas.

4)      Identify your leadership strengths and develop a plan to practice leading from strengths.

5)      Improve your emotionally intelligent leadership competencies related to the awareness and management of your emotions and those of others.

6)      Identify your personal and professional values through a values clarification process.

7)      Connect and develop lasting, creative, innovative, open relationships and community with diverse MCH colleagues from across the US.

8)      Develop a Leadership Philosophy and/or I Am A Leader Who…Statement/Youtube video that expresses your unique leadership philosophy.

9)      Create a Leadership Development Plan that you can sustain and that you feel personally accountable to over the 6-12 months following program conclusion.

10)  Identify yourself as an MCH leader regardless of your role and/position.

11)  Take on a new MCH role or position (if desired) or feel engaged and satisfied with your current work.

Above and beyond these outcomes, the experiences you take from this program will change you, or help you to become more of your true self, and you will remember and apply the learnings in new ways and for a long time.  Program participants who took our program as early as 2010 are still talking about how the program changed their lives.

Posted: September 12th, 2012

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Authentic Leadership is a 6-month distance based program that takes place over the phone and through an online discussion board.   It builds emotional intelligence and develops authentic leadership capacity by focusing on strengths, values-based decision-making and goal-setting, authenticity, vulnerability, courage/risk-taking, and self-care/happiness as they relate to leadership.  What is unique, special, and strong about you?  How do we support you to develop and express your unique leadership style so that you can bring yourself and your passion into your work?  Using this framework, leadership is a very personal and life-long journey and may include aspects of any number of a wide range of leadership theories.

Authentic Leadership is a tried and true, sustainable leadership development program designed for maternal and child health and public health professionals at all stages of career and life development.  The program was first delivered by the UIC MCH Program in January 2010.  The program focuses on whole life leadership.  Depending on individual participant needs, each individual helps to design the program to create an ideal environment for personalized leadership development.  The program includes monthly full group calls; monthly, individual coaching sessions with a professional leadership coach; triad calls, and much more.   Group learning is applied at the individual level therefore participants may include a range of experience levels.  In the past, participants have included students, emerging leaders, mid- and senior-level professionals, and professionals transitioning into retirement.    Interested individuals complete a short application and submit a 1-2 page Letter of Interest.  The program begins twice yearly in January and July. 

PROGRAM LOGISTICS

Program Leaders

Kris Risley, DrPH, CPCC, kris@krisrisley.com, 312.996.2875

Hanna Cooper, MPH, CPCC, hncooper@earthlink.net

Teri, Conrad, MBA, CPCC, thewinnerwithin@comcast.net

Anne Kellogg Reed, CPCC, anne@bicyclelifecoaching.com

Application Deadline: Monday, November 12, 2012.  All materials including the Interest Form and answers to application questions should be mailed to the attention of Kris Risley, MCH Program, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1603 W. Taylor Street (MC 923), Chicago, IL 60612; faxed to: 312.996.3551, or emailed to kris@krisrisley.com.  If you have questions please contact Kris at kris@krisrisley.com or 312.996.2875.

Notification of Program Acceptance:  Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Program Start Date:  Friday, January 11, 2013

Program End Date:  Friday, June 28, 2013

Program Fee:  The program fee is $2400/person and is due to the MCH Program prior to the start of the program.  Checks can be made payable to the University of Illinois and mailed to Kris Risley, MCH Program, School of Public Health, 1603 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612

Time Commitment:  On average, a person will spend between 3-7 hours/month working on this program.  However, this is not ‘work’ that is designed to add stress to an already overburdened workload.  The work of this program is different.  It is about you.  It is designed to support your work efforts so that you feel more leader-like, satisfied, engaged, content, hopeful, inspired, rejuvenated, alive, and certain of your ability to improve public health.