The Life of Leadership

Chelsea Gustafson, PharmDPGY1 Pharmacy ResidentNorthwestern Memorial HospitalOctober 16, 2014

October 16, 2014

Who is a Great Leader?

What Characteristics Make a Leader Great?

What/Who we think of as great leaders

•Mahatma Gandhi•Mia Hamm• Peyton Manning•Mother Teresa• Oprah Winfrey

What Makes a Leader Great?

Authentic leadership

•Making who you are into what strengthens you as a leader

“Women don’t need to imitate men in order to be persuasive and authoritative, they simply need to be authentic.”

Integrating Life

• Bring together all elements of life Work Family Community Friends• Key is to be the same person in every environment

Support Team

• Provides advice, feedback, affirmation and perspective•Multifaceted

Significant others Family Close friends Colleagues Mentors

Factors Valuable to Career Success

• Leadership abilities

• Support from family members

•Networking within their organizations

•Having sponsors to endorse them

• Involvement in professional or community organizations

•Access to flexible work practices

Women cited specific factors as more helpful to their careers than men did, including:

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Journey to Authentic Leadership

• Step 1: Understand the story of your life• Step 2: Work to understand and develop yourself

Devote yourself to a lifetime of realizing your potential• Step 3: Find your motivations• Step 4: Search out and receive honest feedback

Formal and informal support networks• Step 5: Modify leadership style based on morals and

feedback

Having It All

Redefining our “All”

• Does not mean that we do it all• Accepting imperfections

Your All

•What is most important to you?•What kind of crazy do you want in your life?•What kind of crazy could you not live without?•What is your perfect?

How does we use this to make us great leaders?

The Life of Leadership

Chelsea Gustafson, PharmDPGY1 Pharmacy ResidentNorthwestern Memorial HospitalOctober 16, 2014

October 16, 2014