Mindful Leadership in Interprofessional Teams

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Keith De'Bell
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6363-2265
Roberta Clark

Abstract

In interprofessional health teams the need for coordinating leadership and the (dynamical) need for appropriate clinical expertise to come to the fore involves a tension between the traditional role of the team leader as authority figure and the collaborative leadership which enables individual team members to emerge as leaders in their area of expertise and to relinquish this leadership as needed. Complexity analysis points to an understanding of leadership as an emergent property of the team. We discuss how a framework of mindful leadership addresses the implications of this emergent leadership model, and how Appreciative Inquiry provides a structured process for examination of team vision, values and behaviour standards.

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De’Bell, K., & Clark, R. (2018). Mindful Leadership in Interprofessional Teams. The International Journal of Whole Person Care, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.26443/ijwpc.v5i2.179
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Theoretical Papers
Author Biographies

Keith De'Bell, St. Francis Xavier University

Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

Roberta Clark, University of New Brunswick

Associate Professor (Retired), Department of Nursing

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