NUR514- Organizational Leadership and Informatics
This assignment focuses on the importance of self‐assessment and reflection.
Self‐Assessment
Self‐awareness is essential for developing leadership skills. Recognizing your own strengths, weaknesses, and values, and understanding emotional intelligence and learning styles can help you to be a more effective nurse leader.
For this assignment, you have the opportunity to take a variety of self‐assessments to learn more about yourself and identify your assets and weaknesses as a leader. This will assist you in discovering how you can improve your own self‐leadership skills. You will be asked to think critically about your results and submit a reflection as directed below.
Select three of the following self‐assessments and complete them. Be sure to document the results of each assessment to assist you in completing the reflection portion of the assignment below.
Emotional Intelligence Assessment: \”Emotional Intelligence Test\”: https://www.psychologytoday.com/tests/personality/emotional‐intelligence‐testNUR514- Organizational Leadership and Informatics
Personality Assessment: \”Free Personality Test\”: https://www.16personalities.com/free‐personality‐test
Learning Styles Assessment: \”Values Profile\”: http://vark‐learn.com/the‐vark‐questionnaire/
Values Assessment: \”Values Profile\”: https://www.psychologytoday.com/tests/personality/values‐profile
Values Assessment: \”Rokeach Values Survey\”: http://faculty.wwu.edu/tyrank/Rokeach%20Value%20Survey.pdf
Diversity Assessment: \”Cultural Competence Self‐Test\”: http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/SENIORS‐DISABILITIES/DD/PROVIDERS‐PARTNERS/SCPAconference/Cultural%20Competence%20Self‐Test.pdf
Self‐Assessment Reflection
Becoming self‐aware is an ongoing process requiring introspection. The more often people practice self‐reflection, the more opportunities they have to understand their own behaviors and adapt their approaches to working with other people, which can improve both your own and other\’s abilities to meet their professional goals.
In a 750‐1,000 word reflective essay, address the following:
Briefly summarize why you selected each self‐assessment and the results you obtained on each assessment.
Identify the leadership style that closely aligns to your philosophy of care, and explain what appeals to you about that style.
Reflect on how you might incorporate elements of that particular style as you exercise leadership in a practice or health care organization setting.
Discuss any particular areas for improvement the assessments helped you identify and some steps for improving your leadership capabilities.
You are required to cite three to five sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Lopes Write. Refer to the Lopes Write Technical Support articles for assistance.
Summary on Why I Selected Each Self-Assessment and The Results.
It was necessary to take the emotional intelligence test to gain more insight on my level of emotional intelligence and use this information for self-development and self-management for career advancement. Through it, I could easily understand my emotions and moods and the impact they have on the environment that surrounds me. Based on its results, I could easily tell my ability to think before acting, to regulate my mood and impulses, how open I am to change, individual level of trustworthiness and integrity (Heydari, Kareshki & Armat, 2016). It was also important to take the personality test so as to categorize some of the personal traits that I could otherwise not be aware of. Through this classification, I can be able to learn and understand how I am likely to react to something within my surrounding. Lastly, I decided to take the values assessment test since I needed to understand and gain more insight in my individual priorities by identifying the core values that require most of my attention at this point in life and the factors which influence my decision making (Heydari, Kareshki & Armat, 2016).
The emotional intelligence test scores were as follows: emotional identification, perception and expression-77%, emotional facilitation of thought-83%, emotional understanding-71%, emotional management-79% and ego maturity-82%. I have the ENFJ personality. People with this personality type are naturally born leaders who are full of charisma and passion. The values assessment test revealed that my most dominant values are social values and spiritual values. The values which influence me are realistic values, work values and political values.NUR514- Organizational Leadership and Informatics
Leadership Style That Closely Aligns to My Philosophy of Care and What’s Appealing about That Style
My philosophy of care is to respect and understand the therapeutic alliance that exists between a patient and a nurse and to collaborate towards accomplishing a common goal. My principle role is to ensure that a patient’s needs are adequately addressed by prioritizing a patient and providing patient-centric care. The leadership style which closely aligns to this philosophy of care is servant leadership whose main goal is to serve. What is more appealing about the servant leadership style is that power is shared, the needs of a patient are placed first and that both the patient and the nurse gain as highly as possible (Spears & Lawrence, 2016). In clinical scenarios, servant leadership tends to invert the norm, placing the patient as a priority. The current model of servant leadership was invented by Robert Greenleaf in the 1970s while he served as Greenleaf’s Center for Servant Leadership CEO.
It is also worth noting that, servant leadership tends to value diverse opinions such that the patient’s and family opinions are carefully listened to and incorporated when providing care to patients. It is possible to form long term therapeutic alliances with patients since my servant leadership style helps to cultivate a culture of trust with patients and their families (Grisaffe, VanMeter & Chonko, 2016). By prioritizing patients’ needs and focusing on patient-centric care, servant leadership style has advanced the level of my philosophy of care to an extent that I not only focus on providing care to patients in the hospital setting but also collaborate with other stakeholders for the well-being and growth of the community that I serve and belong. Therefore, I help in health promotion and disease prevention in the community.NUR514- Organizational Leadership and Informatics
Incorporating Elements of Leadership Style in Practice or Healthcare Organization Setting
The core elements of servant leadership are: foresight, mentorship, service and collaborative authority. One way of incorporating these elements in clinical practice is by focusing on the inward ability of patients and colleagues. This will help to focus on other people’s needs and how best they can be addressed. Alternatively, a platform or avenue that allows staff to share challenges they encounter in the clinical setting or for patients to share their issues can be created. Leadership can show both stakeholders how valuable they are by listening to them non-judgmentally and formulating strategies to address some of the issues.
Since servant leaders have foresight, in clinical settings, foresight can be implemented by nurturing patients and colleague staff to achieve their full potential. In any given healthcare organization, it is possible that people can be developed through a highly dynamic learning environment whereby, the mistakes made by other patients or colleagues result to new insights and can be considered as learning opportunities (Leggat, Balding & Schiftan, 2015). Rather than sitting back, a servant leader can also join in the learning and help to develop stakeholders through modeling appropriate behaviors or encouragement. Any accomplishments should thereafter be recognized and creativity celebrated.
When it comes to collaborative authority, in clinical settings, plans, goals, mission and vision of the organization should not only belong to the leadership but also shared by the patients and staff. A vision that is shared tends to draw skills, support, abilities and resources for the present and the future. It will also illustrate the ability to allocate resources and a shared decision making which will generally empower everyone to work towards a common goal and for the best interest of patients and the organization (Grisaffe, VanMeter & Chonko, 2016).
Areas for Improvement Based On the Assessments and Steps for Improving Leadership Capabilities
One of the areas that I identified that needs improvement is having trust in others. Severally, in clinical practice, I tend to take on more tasks since I do not trust colleagues or patients to perform them as efficient as I can, a routine that has severally contributed to burnout and stress. In order to address my leadership capability with reference to this issue, I will only focus on precise outcomes and trust the assigned stakeholder to follow through. I will also be conducting periodic checkups to any task that I delegate just to ensure that there is some progress that is being made.NUR514- Organizational Leadership and Informatics
References
Grisaffe, D. B., VanMeter, R., & Chonko, L. B. (2016). Serving first for the benefit of others: preliminary evidence for a hierarchical conceptualization of servant leadership. Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, 36(1), 40-58.
Heydari, A., Kareshki, H., & Armat, M. R. (2016). Is nurses’ professional competence related to their personality and emotional intelligence? a cross-sectional study. Journal of caring sciences, 5(2), 121.
Leggat, S. G., Balding, C., & Schiftan, D. (2015). Developing clinical leaders: the impact of an action learning mentoring programme for advanced practice nurses. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(11-12), 1576-1584.
Spears, L. C., & Lawrence, M. (Eds.). (2016). Practicing servant-leadership: Succeeding through trust, bravery, and forgiveness. John Wiley & Sons.NUR514- Organizational Leadership and Informatics