Followership Training in Healthcare Teams - Erin Barry

My guest Erin Barry is currently working on her PhD in Health Professions Education focusing on leadership and followership within healthcare teams. She shares her observations of how meaningful and flexible followership impacts the quality of care delivered to patients, as well as the necessity of regular peer feedback and personal reflection.

Erin Barry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the Uniformed Services University (USU). She is a health professions education researcher who develops and delivers curriculum and education assessments, and conducts research and scholarship related to leadership, followership, and healthcare teams. She has a secondary appointment as Assistant Professor in the USU Department of Military and Emergency Medicine as well as the Center for Health Professions Education. She contributes to leadership education, development, assessment, scholarship, and online learning. Additionally, she is a Leadership Coach with certification from the Kansas Leadership Institute and the Innovative Leadership Institute.
 
She has co-authored more than 50 papers and chapters as well as the book, Innovative Leadership for Healthcare. She is a co-founder of the International Leadership Association's Healthcare Leadership Community. In addition, she helps to mentor faculty, staff, and students with regard to research activities. 

 “Healthcare is a team sport”

“We get [students] to think about what their dominant style of followership is so that they can see that it’s probably going to shift depending on the situation.”

“We talk a lot about how even as a follower you have a lot more influence than you might assume.”

“Our different roles really do need to change depending on what’s needed by the team.”

Connect with Erin Barry
https://www.usuhs.edu/node/11086

Episode References

Ed O’Malley and Julia Fabris McBride, Kansas Leadership Center, When Everyone Leads: How The Toughest Challenges Get Seen And Solved

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