Personal Leadership Model

Personal Leadership Model

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.

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.

Emotional Intelligence
Arunima, S., & Ajeya, J. (2014). Age and emotional intelligence of healthcare leaders: A study. Advances in Management, 7(7), 41–48.
This study examines how emotional intelligence changes across age groups of healthcare leaders.
du Plessis, M., Wakelin, Z., & Nel, P. (2015). The influence of emotional intelligence and trust on servant leadership. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 41(1), 1–9.
This article looks at how emotional intelligence and trust can impact the effectiveness of servant leadership.

Critical Reflection
Maiden, G. (2017). Using reflection and visual representation to analyse and build leadership capacity, through a personal account of exemplary leadership. International Practice Development Journal, 7(2), 1–9.
This article examines specific frameworks for critical reflection that were utilized in a program designed to build leadership skills and capacity.
Middleton, R. (2017). Critical reflection: The struggle of a practice developer. International Practice Development Journal, 7(1), 1–7.
This article discusses strategies to make critical reflection meaningful and overcome some of the challenges associated with this reflection strategy.
Leadership
Boak, G., Dickens, V., Newson, A., & Brown, L. (2015). Distributed leadership, team working and service improvement in healthcare. Leadership in Health Services, 28(4), 332–344.
This article presents a case study about the use of distributed leadership strategies within a healthcare team to drive service improvements.
Hargett, C. W., Doty, J. P., Hauck, J. N. . . .Taylor, D. C. (2017). Developing a model for effective leadership in healthcare: A concept mapping approach. Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 9, 69–78.
This article presents a concept mapping exercise that was conducted to identify competencies and construct a healthcare leadership model.
Rosenman, E. D., Ilgen, J. S., Shandro, J. R., Harper, A. L., & Fernandez, R. (2015). A systematic review of tools used to assess team leadership in health care action teams. Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 90(10), 1408–1422.
A study that examines tools currently used to assess the quality and effectiveness of leaders in interdisciplinary healthcare teams.

Personal Leadership Brand
Rampersad, H. (2011). Matching your personal brand to that of your employer. Training & Management Development Methods, 25(2), 413–418.
This article examines strategies for building a personal leadership brand that aligns with the values and interests of an employer.
Shirey, M. R. (2010). Building your personal leadership brand. Clinical Nurse Specialist, 24​(1), 11–13.
This article examines the ways in which building a personal leadership brand can help you enhance professional value and workplace influence.
Ulrich, D., & Smallwood, N. (2009). Five steps to building your personal leadership brand. Infonomics, 23​(2), 32–35.
This article presents a five-step process for building a personal leadership brand and adapting to keep it relevant as you and the industry changes.