Assignment: Capella University Personal Leadership Model Assessment
Question Description
Develop a personal leadership model based on your evaluation of how you responded at a critical moment, along with an analysis of how your personal strengths and leadership style can become a model for leadership within your organization. There is no page limit for this assessment; be substantive, thorough, and concise. Note: You are strongly encouraged to complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented. Health care leaders are expected to be able to enter the workplace, assess priorities, and work with teams to accomplish the organizational mission. Typically, this involves both clinical and financial goals, as well as the motivation of teams to get the work done. Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to perceive emotions (both our own and the emotions of those around us) understand the causes and meanings of different emotions, and use this knowledge of emotions to guide how we think about and respond to people and situations (Salovey, Mayer, & Caruso, 2004). In 1995, Daniel Goleman brought the concept of emotional intelligence into the business world with his book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. Goleman’s model defines EI as a blend of skills and characteristics that guide leadership decisions and can influence organizational success. In fact, EI has had a tremendous impact on the business world and many organizations worldwide use EI for hiring, promoting, and developing employees (Goleman, n.d.).As a health care leader, you will face a variety of obstacles and will need to use leadership skills to move teams forward and overcome barriers. Assessing the environment encompasses the morale and needs of individual team members, as well as perhaps the department or strategic business unit. Effective leaders utilize their natural leadership strengths and can enhance results via integration of personal leadership and emotional intelligence.
References
Goleman, D. (n.d.). Emotional intelligence [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://www.danielgoleman.info/topics/emotional-intelligence/Salovey, P., Mayer, J., & Caruso, P. (2004). Emotional intelligence: Theory, findings, and implications. Psychological Inquiry, 197–215.
DEMONSTRATION OF PROFICIENCY
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 2: Assess personal leadership competencies relative to the organizational need. (L2.4, L14.4, L22.4, L19.2, L7.2, L10.5)
Explain how emotional intelligence strengthens leadership skills.
Describe evidence-based leadership strategies for managing stressful situations.
Propose a personal leadership brand that reflects organizational direction and need.
Explain how leadership style aligns with organizational mission and values, and professional and personal ethics.
Competency 3: Analyze characteristics of effective team leadership. (L5.4, L26.5, L1.4)
Analyze leadership strategies to guide highly effective teams.
Competency 4: Examine how financial forecasts guide organizational leadership. (L8.4)
Analyze how financial forecasts influence leadership style.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in health care administration. (L6.1, L6.2, L6.3, and L6.4)
Write coherently, concisely, logically, and with strong support from relevant professional resources, in an appropriate format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a health care administration professional.
PREPARATION
For your Personal Leadership Model assessment you are required take one of the following three quizzes. You will refer to the results and how your emotional intelligence strengths can help to improve your leadership skills.
Cherry, K. (n.d.). How emotionally intelligent are you? VeryWell.com. Retrieved from https://www.verywell.com/how-emotionally-intellige…
Global Leadership Foundation. (n.d.) Emotional intelligence test. Retrieved from http://globalleadershipfoundation.com/geit/eitest….
The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. (n.d.). Body language quiz | Test your emotional intelligence. Retrieved from http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/ei_quiz/#16
INSTRUCTIONS
This assessment has four sections.
Section One: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership.
In this section you will discuss the connection between emotional intelligence and effective leadership.
Section Two: Personal Leadership Assessment.
Use the critical reflection approach to self-assess your situational and current abilities related to personal leadership.
Section Three: Personal Leadership Brand Statement
Propose a personal leadership brand or style that is authentic to you and reflects your strengths.
Section 4: Personal Leadership Model
Develop an evidence-based personal leadership model that leverages your personal strength, leadership brand, and emotional intelligence.
Read the requirements carefully and be sure you complete each section.
Section One: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
Relevant Scoring Guide Criteria:
Explain how emotional intelligence strengthens leadership skills.
Write coherently, concisely, logically, and with strong support from relevant professional resources, in an appropriate format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a health care administration professional.
Take one of the three Emotional Intelligence (EI) quizzes listed above to help inform your current level and knowledge of EI. Based on your quiz results and research into leadership skills and best-practices, explain how EI concepts can help improve specific leadership skills or competencies.How does understanding and managing emotions make a more effective leader?
Section Two: Personal Leadership Assessment
Relevant Scoring Guide Criteria:
Describe evidence-based leadership strategies for managing stressful situations.
Write coherently, concisely, logically, and with strong support from relevant professional resources, in an appropriate format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a health care administration professional.
Conduct a personal leadership situational assessment using the critical reflection approach. As this is a reflective activity, please use a situation with which you have experience and are comfortable sharing in your assignment. Additionally:
Describe a chaotic or stressful situation you experienced (in just a few sentences) and the specific actions you took in the situation.
Describe ways you could have better managed your reaction to the situation, using the leadership resources you located.
Explain how this new insight might influence your personal leadership development.
Section Three: Personal Leadership Brand Statement
Relevant Scoring Guide Criteria:
Propose a personal leadership brand that reflects organizational direction and need.
Write coherently, concisely, logically, and with strong support from relevant professional resources, in an appropriate format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a health care administration professional.
Based on the results of your STAR assessment, personal leadership situational assessment, and EI assessment, propose a personal leadership brand or style that is authentic, reflects your personality and strengths, and capitalizes on your EI.
Condense your personal leadership brand into two words that best describe your style. You can test your proposed leadership brand by asking colleagues for feedback. Include a so that statement for your brand that demonstrates how your leadership style adds value to your organization.
Example: “My leadership brand is collaborative accountability so that I can facilitate effective teamwork towards meeting the organization’s goal to deliver X clinical and/or Y financial outcomes.”
Section Four: Personal Leadership Model
Relevant Scoring Guide Criteria:
Analyze leadership strategies to guide highly effective teams.
Analyze how financial forecasts influence leadership style.
Explain how leadership style aligns with organizational mission and values, and professional and personal ethics.
Write coherently, concisely, logically, and with strong support from relevant professional resources, in an appropriate format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a health care administration professional.
Analyze how you can combine your leadership strengths, emotional intelligence, and personal leadership brand into a leadership model that aligns with organizational culture and strategic goals and can guide organizational success. Be sure your analysis includes evidence and support from the resources you located. Specifically, address the following:
Leadership strategies to guide highly effective teams.
How your leadership approach might be influenced by financial forecasts.
How your leadership approach reflects the mission and values of the organization, as well as professional and personal ethics.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Structure: Include a title page and reference page.
Length: No required minimum length. Be substantive, thorough, and concise.
References: At least five current credible professional resources.
Format: APA format for references and citations only.
You may wish to refer to the following APA resources to help with your structure, formatting, and style:
APA Style and Format
APA Paper Tutorial
APA Paper Template
Font: Times New Roman font, 12 point, double-spaced.
SCORING GUIDE
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
Several events contribute to persistent shortages of nurses. An aging population is one of the major contributing factors. The aging people are prone to falling ill of chronic diseases like high blood pressure, heart diseases, arthritis, and diabetes. These diseases call for hospice and palliative care from nursing professionals. However, the available nursing staff cannot quench the demand from the aged increasing population (Marc et al., 2019). Therefore, you find the need to supersedes the supply chain of nursing services. Such cases expose the nursing shortage issue in medical facilities. Additionally, when the demand is higher than the supply chain, nursing staff burnout occurs. In such cases, the available nursing staff overworks themselves to meet the requirements of the arising patients’ cases. In turn, the tired workforce offers unsatisfactory services to patients, and also, the staff is affected emotionally and find no satisfaction working when emotionally drained (Marc et al., 2019). Therefore, some opt to resign for other professions, and others pursue personal businesses. The workforce that leaves creates a massive deficit in the nursing profession.
Moreover, poor leadership in healthcare facilities has massively contributed to nursing shortages. Medical Facilities which do not have adequate communication channels and information framework tend to exclude the staff in decision making, which makes the workforce feel less involved in the organization partaking. In the United States, healthcare organizations have discovered these lapses, and intentionally they have taken up the matter in their hands for better. These institutions are seeking to employ nursing professionals with high leadership competence levels. As they have realized, adequate leadership contributes to curbing the nursing shortage challenge (Snavely, 2016). They ensure that the top management individuals are well equipped with proper leadership skills to manage the workforce.
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