Complete a leadership self-assessment to create a portrait of the effective health care professional and leader you aspire to be.
(1) Analyze your leadership strengths and weaknesses. (2) Identify at least one leadership theory or style that you believe best aligns with your own thoughts of what leadership means. Use that theory or style in your analysis. Cite your sources. (3) Consider potential biases or underlying assumptions in your analysis. (4) Explain how specific leadership characteristics you already possess will enable you to guide, educate, inform, and influence others to manage change in the field of health care. (5) Consider examples of past successes. (6) Consider strategies or best practices that could be applied to improve outcomes. (7) Describe at least two additional leadership characteristics you would like to develop to enhance your effectiveness in this area. (8) Explain how your leadership characteristics will serve to help you build and maintain collaborative relationships across, and within, disciplines. (9) Consider examples of past successes. (10) Consider strategies or best practices that could be applied to improve outcomes. (11) Describe at least two additional leadership characteristics you would like to develop to enhance your effectiveness in this area. (12) Explain how you can best apply the principles of ethical leadership, given your leadership style. (13) Identify the main principles of ethical leadership within your field of practice (nursing, health administration, or public health). Cite your sources. (14) Consider examples of past successes. (15) Consider strategies or best practices that could be applied to improve outcomes. (16) Where do you have room to grow in this area? (17) How can you prepare yourself to do so? (18) Explain why diversity and inclusion are important to employee relations and the provision of safe, high-quality health care. (19) Provide an example you have experienced or read about. Cite your sources. (20) Explain how your leadership characteristics prepare you to develop and lead a diverse team of employees and serve a diverse community within an ethical framework. (21) In what ways can you address issues of diversity and inclusion, both within an organization and in serving the public? (22) Explain how research skills and critical thinking guide effective decision making and foster integrity in research and professional practice.