Leadership and Effecting Change in Public Health
Part 1: Group Presentation (15 mins; 30%) Focusing on the challenges in the scenario, each team will present an analysis of how leadership, power, ethics and values affect each other and subsequently, provide strategies for collaboration and effective change management.As a team you are required to undertake secondary research and apply knowledge from this subject to develop a comprehensive understanding of the event. Then the team will use critical thinking on how to respond to this event. Your team will prepare and complete a two-part presentation (case analysis and recommendations).
Your group is led by a Chief Health Officer, in one of the states in charge of managing the Covid19 outbreak. The team members will assume that they have their professional strengths (real background) and values as well as personal leadership strengths (so if you have a medical background – you assume this in the team, etc.). In support of the Chief Medical Officer the team consists of epidemiologists, infectious disease physicians, nurses, paramedics, etc…(optional) this will be discussed in class. Your group needs to deal with communities, stakeholders in the government (local) and federal, hospitals, organizations, public health entities, and programs.
Consider people, strengths, and weaknesses in each city. The team will need to undertake research of the geographic regions and their politics before proposing potential interventions. Focus on also how to facilitate changes using your group members and in dealing with the stakeholders.
PresentationPart A:
Analysis In this section your team will provide a critical analysis of the case using leadership theories and concepts. a) Identify from six to eight primary stakeholders and analyse their relevance to the decision made by Prof Sutton b) Analyse the sources and types of power held by Prof Sutton and each stakeholder identified in Point a) c) Critique the various types of leadership used in the case study – this includes Prof Sutton and selected representatives (min 4) for each of the stakeholders
Presentation Part B:
Recommendations In this section using the findings of the analyses in Part A your team will present its recommendations using theories from the subject.
a) What processes and activities will your group use to achieve stakeholder collaboration and empowerment?
i. With whom do you need to collaborate and what concepts will you use to facilitate collaboration? ii. How can you empower the people you lead while ensuring there is good governance (sharing responsibility, accountability and power)?
b) How will you and your select stakeholders positively effect change?
i. What change model/theory will you use and why ii. What ethical approach should be taken by the stakeholders and why?
iii. What impediments or limitations must be addressed through your leadership to achieve the desired change and ultimate goal?
iv. What action plan will you use to facilitate change management in response to the scenario?
