Western Maternal and Child Health Nutrition Partners

SHORT COURSE

Jeannine Herrick, Adjunct Instructor, UNC, Gillings School of Global Public Health and Public Health Leadership Department.  “Leading from an Adaptive Mindset: Using a Change Management Framework to Approach Complex Challenges.”  

Description

This session will introduce concepts related to adaptive and change leadership to help participants understand the foundational leadership principles and processes that are helpful to guide workforce shifts towards new directions. Participants will be introduced to tools and methods to use in collective design and development efforts to tackle hard to solve upstream challenges related to state nutrition efforts for maternal child health populations.
This session has five short recorded components with a corresponding handout for each section. 

• Thinking Adaptively
• Change Leadership
• Shifting Upstream
• Root Causes
• Planning for Upstream Impacts

Learning Objectives:

• After attending this session participants will be able to:
• Explain key characteristics of adaptive leadership and list one central way they can approach a complex challenge in their setting from an adaptive mindset.
• Explain different preferences related to change and can list one way they can apply an assets -based approach to their work.
• Participants can identify and explain how to use one tool to help explore a nutrition challenges’ root causes.
• Participants can explain how to apply a change management process to Policy, System and Environmental work. 

Audience

The audience for these leadership modules are: nutrition/dietetics/MPH students, MCH nutrition staff, their agencies, and partners. These modules can be integrated training programs, dietetic internships, team meetings or professional development opportunities.

Maternal Child Health Bureau Competencies Version 4.0

• Competency 10: Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional Team Building 

WORKING UPSTREAM – INTRODUCTION

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Adaptive Leadership For Title V Nutrition Directors – Jeannine Herrick – June 2020 (PDF)

WORKING UPSTREAM – SESSION 1

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WORKING UPSTREAM – SESSION 2

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WORKING UPSTREAM–  SESSION 3

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WORKING UPSTREAM – SESSION 4

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WORKING UPSTREAM – SESSION 5

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Working Upstream – Session 5 Planning for Upstream Impact (PDF)

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