Assessment Instructions

Preparation

You have been offered the opportunity to apply for a leadership position in your organization. As a part of the application process, your potential employer uses the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) competency model of leadership development (NCHL, 2016), which includes a 360-degree evaluation. The evaluation is an assessment that includes anonymous, confidential feedback from those around you, such as your peers, supervisor, direct reports, and stakeholders, as well as a self-assessment on behavior (relational), technical and operational skills, and strategic ability. As a part of this 360-degree evaluation, you will complete the self-assessment component. This information will be shared with the interview committee for the position, so it is important that you demonstrate your knowledge and experience in each of the areas outlined in the self-assessment requirements below.

Note: Remember, you can submit all or a portion of your draft to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version of your work for this assessment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time for receiving feedback if you plan on using this free service.

Reference

National Center for Healthcare Leadership. (2016). NCHL organizational assessments. Retrieved from http://www.nchl.org/static.asp?path=2852,3241

Self-Assessment Requirements

Complete a leadership self-assessment to create a portrait of the effective health care professional and leader you aspire to be.

Note: The assessment requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the Leadership Self-Assessment scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. You are provided an example leadership self-assessment to illustrate what proficient-level work for this assessment looks like.

Self-Assessment Format and APA Style

• Use the APA Paper template, linked in the Resources, to draft your self-assessment. An abstract is not required.
• Your self-assessment should be 5–7 double-spaced pages in length, not including the title page and reference page.
• Apply correct APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
• Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.

Writing

Note: Because this assessment requires you to develop a leadership self-assessment, you may write using first-person voice. However, it is important for your development as a practitioner-scholar to recognize that writing in the first person is not usually acceptable in academic papers, which are written in the third-person. Consequently, you should always carefully consider departing from this norm.

• Be clear and concise in your writing.
• Express your main points, arguments, and conclusions coherently.
• Use correct grammar and mechanics.
• Be sure to support your claims, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from 4–5 current, scholarly or professional sources.
• Proofread your writing.

Self-Assessment Content

• Analyze your leadership strengths and weaknesses.
  • 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.
  • Consider potential biases or underlying assumptions in your analysis.
• 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.
  • Consider examples of past successes.
  • Consider strategies or best practices that could be applied to improve outcomes.
  • Describe at least two additional leadership characteristics you would like to develop to enhance your effectiveness in this area.
• Explain how your leadership characteristics will serve to help you build and maintain collaborative relationships across, and within, disciplines.
  • Consider examples of past successes.
  • Consider strategies or best practices that could be applied to improve outcomes.
  • Describe at least two additional leadership characteristics you would like to develop to enhance your effectiveness in this area.
• Explain how you can best apply the principles of ethical leadership, given your leadership style.
  • Identify the main principles of ethical leadership within your field of practice (nursing, health administration, or public health). Cite your sources.
  • Consider examples of past successes.
  • Consider strategies or best practices that could be applied to improve outcomes.
  • Where do you have room to grow in this area?
  • How can you prepare yourself to do so?
• Explain why diversity and inclusion are important to employee relations and the provision of safe, high-quality health care.
  • Provide an example you have experienced or read about. Cite your sources.
• 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.
  • In what ways can you address issues of diversity and inclusion, both within an organization and in serving the public?
• Explain how research skills and critical thinking guide effective decision making and foster integrity in research and professional practice.

Suggested Resources

The resources provided here are optional. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The NHS-FP5004 – Collaboration, Communication, and Case Analysis for Health Care Master’s Learners Library Guide can help direct your research, and the Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.

Leadership means different things to different people. Although people in different areas may have varying views on the definition of leadership, there are many common elements, as well.

• Leadership Styles.
• How Do You Define Leadership?.
• Leadership Self-Assessment.

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Leadership Theories

These resources examine transformational ethical leadership and may help you complete your assessment:

• Dartey-Baah, K. (2015). Resilient leadership: A transformational-transactional leadership mix. Journal of Global Responsibility, 6(1), 99–112.
• deZulueta, P. C. (2015). Developing compassionate leadership in health care: An integrative review. Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 8, 1–10.
• Kupo, V. L. (2014). Becoming a scholar-practitioner in student affairs. New Directions for Student Services, 147, 89–98.
• Malloch, K. (2014). Beyond transformational leadership to greater engagement: Inspiring innovation in complex organizations. Nurse Leader, 12(2), 60–63.

Leadership Inventory

• Robinson, J. L. (2016). Connecting leadership and learning: Do versatile learners make connective leaders? Higher Learning Research Communications, 6(1), 35–50.

Leadership Characteristics

• Cote, R. (2017). Vision of effective leadership. Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, 14(4), 52–63.
• Liborius, P. (2014). Who is worthy of being followed? The impact of leaders’ character and the moderating role of followers’ personality. The Journal of Psychology, 148(3), 347–385.
• Muthia, A., & Krishnan, V. R. (2015). Servant leadership and commitment: Role of transformational leadership. International Journal on Leadership, 3(1), 9–20.
• Rogers, R. (2012). Leadership communication styles: A descriptive analysis of health care professionals. Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 4, 47–57.

Ethical Frameworks for Leadership

• Crews, J. (2015). What is an ethical leader?: The characteristics of ethical leadership from the perceptions held by Australian senior executives. Journal of Business and Management, 21(1), 29–58.
• Dion, M. (2012). Are ethical theories relevant for ethical leadership? Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 33(1), 4–24.

Leadership and Diversity

• Gotsis, G., & Grimani, K. (2016). Diversity as an aspect of effective leadership: Integrating and moving forward. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 37(2), 241–264.

Additional Resources for Further Exploration

The textbook references below provide additional background. If you choose to engage with these resources, you are encouraged to find them via your preferred retailer or your local library.

• American Nurses Association. (2015). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. Silver Spring, MD: Author.
• Buchbinder, S. B., Shanks, N. H., & Buchbinder, D. (2014). Cases in health care management. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  • This textbook contains some excellent case study scenarios. Interesting questions and useful resources are also included at the end of each case.
• Green, J. L. (2015). Graduate savvy: Navigating the world of online higher education (3rd ed.). Warrenton, VA: Glocal Press.
  • This textbook offers useful information to help you succeed as a graduate-level learner in an online environment.

Leadership Theories

• Washington, R. R., Sutton, C. D., & Sauser, W. I., Jr. (2014). How distinct is servant leadership theory? Empirical comparisons with competing theories. Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, 11(1), 11–25.

Ethical Frameworks for Leadership

• American Nurses Association. (2011). Short definitions of ethical principles and theories: Familiar words, what do they mean? [PDF]. Retrieved from https://www.happynclex.com/wp-content/uploads/2016…
• Lee, L. M., & Royo-Bordonada, M. A. (2015). Continuing the conversation about public health ethics: Education for public health professionals in Europe. Public Health Reviews, 36(5), 1–4.

Leadership Inventory

• The Leadership Challenge. (2018). Leadership development worksheet. Retrieved from http://www.leadershipchallenge.com/lpiworksheet.as…
• McGraw-Hill. (2018). Self-assessment: What are your transformational leadership tendencies? Retrieved from http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/1259030539/s…