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The guide Best Practices for Tobacco Control Programs has among the best practices there is opportunity to glean what effective leadership looks like from an outcome perspective. For example, on page 64, the following tasks are identified as success factors:
• Strategic planning
• Recruiting and developing talent
• Coordinating program implementation
• Developing a fiscal management system
• Coordinating across programs
• Educating public
These are all important functions, illustrating that leadership needs to do the following. Leadership needs to work with people in different organizations, needs to have vision for planning and human development purposes, have a high level of managerial functionality and should be able to bridge communication gaps to achieve outcomes.
Furthermore, a good leader should be able to build other leaders. Page 66 of the guide talks about the importance of multi-level leadership, which fostered buy-in and leadership from a variety of different, related entities, and also from within. There is a recognition that leadership is something required throughout an organization in order that the organization is a success. Preparing staff to move into leadership roles was a key element of the program. Brungardt (1997) notes that leadership is made, and there is a critical role for leadership development programs to play in situations...
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