The goals of this workshop are to learn of the three dimensions of Meta Leadership and engage senior leadership and increase their awareness of the Metro Health & Medical Preparedness Coalition.

Please invite your director, VP, COO, CNO, Commissioner, EMS Director, or Administrator to attend with you and learn about Meta Leadership.

About the Workshop:

Meta-Leadership is a guide for solving complex problems involving numerous stakeholders. The “Meta” prefix describes an overarching grasp of problems as well as a broad perspective on potential solutions. Organizations are now less hierarchical and more oriented toward inter-dependence with other entities: an enterprise view of what they do. Therefore, successful leaders must expand their thinking, influence and activity beyond the formal bounds of their authority.

The definition and metric of Meta-Leadership is “People Follow You.” Those people include a boss, peers, outsiders as well as subordinates.

There are three dimensions of Meta-Leadership, which combine when put into practice:

• The Person of the Meta-Leader: Meta-Leaders are grounded in who they are and why they are leading. Exhibiting emotional intelligence―self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills―their authenticity rallies those who follow.

• The Situation: Step one in solving a problem is in understanding it. What is happening? The “Meta” view encourages a far-reaching analytic lens, recognizing the different experiences and motives of the many involved stakeholders.

• Connectivity: Meta-Leaders intentionally link and leverage the efforts of many different organizations and people. By proactively galvanizing knowledge, motivations, and capabilities, they forge invaluable unity of effort and initiative. This connectivity includes leading DOWN to subordinates; leading UP to bosses or reporting authorities; leading ACROSS within one’s organization; and leading BEYOND to those outside the organization.