NHS 8002 Capella University Personal Leadership Portrait Homework Scores: Transactional (9 out of 16) Transformational (14 out of 16) Servant (13 out of

NHS 8002 Capella University Personal Leadership Portrait Homework Scores:

Transactional (9 out of 16)

Transformational (14 out of 16)

Servant (13 out of 16)

Charismatic (14 out of 16)

Contingency (14 out of 16)

Trait (13 out of 16)

Write a 6- to 8-page personal leadership portrait in which you address the following:

Evaluate your personal approach to health care leadership.
Identify the leadership characteristics you already possess.
Analyze your strengths and limitations (areas for development).
Compare your leadership characteristics with a predominant leadership style and its application to professional practice.
Assess other leadership styles you might integrate into your skills repertoire to enhance your effectiveness as a leader and manage change in health care.
Explain how your personal approach to health care leadership facilitates interprofessional relationships, community engagement, and change management.
Consider interprofessional relationships with staff, community agencies, organizations, and other stakeholders.
Identify your strengths and weaknesses related to interprofessional relationships, community engagement, and change management.
Evaluate best practices for interprofessional communications and compare your communication skills and attributes to those best practices.
Explain how ethical leadership principles can be applied to professional practice.
Identify the relevant ethical leadership principles for your discipline (public health, health administration, or nursing).
Evaluate best practices for developing an ethical culture in the workplace.
Explain how health care leaders can address diversity and inclusion.
What do diversity and inclusion mean to you within the context of population health?
Explain the importance of diversity and inclusion to effective leadership.
For example, cultivating good employee and community relations.
How does an effective leader develop a diverse and inclusive workplace (strategies, best practices)?
How do diversity and inclusion contribute to health care quality and service to the community?
What best practices would you recommend addressing issues of diversity and inclusion?
Explain how scholar-practitioners contribute to leadership and professional development in the field of health care.
Define scholar-practitioner, in your own words.
Explain the importance of critical thinking to scholar-practitioners.
Evaluate the influence of scholar-practitioners on health care leadership and professional development.
Explain the importance of scholar-practitioners to professional practice. Consider their value in:
Expanding the knowledge base.
Applying new and existing knowledge, research, and scholarship to solve real-world problems.
Improving health care quality and safety.

Note: Writing in the third person is customary in academic writing; however, for this assignment, you should write in the first person.

Academic Requirements

Your academic writing is expected to conform to the following requirements:

Writing: Present a logical flow of main ideas and key points, with smooth transitions.

Competencies Measured

Competency 1: Apply interprofessional collaboration, communication, and leadership best practices to advance population health.
Competency 2: Apply professional ethics and the principles of diversity and inclusion to advance population health.
Explain how ethical leadership principles can be applied to professional practice.
Explain how health care leaders can address diversity and inclusion.
Competency 3: Explain how scholar-practitioners function as leaders in the field of health care.
Explain how scholar-practitioners contribute to leadership and professional development in the field of health care.
Competency 4: Produce written work that demonstrates critical thinking and application of knowledge, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
Present a logical flow of main ideas and key points, with smooth transitions.
Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.

Leadership Self-Assessment

Theories of leadership and elements that make them different

Theory

Origin

Major Premise

Role of the Leader

Role of the Follower

Personality Chacteristics of the Leader

Transactional

Burns, 1978

Leaders exchange something with followers to advance both of their agendas.

Rewards or disciplines.

Performs in exchange for something.

Authoritarian, negotiator, influential.

Transformational

Burns, 1978

Leader is interested in developing followers to their fullest potential.

Motivates and inspires.

Works for the greater good of the group and society in general.

Charismatic, inspirational, role model, enabler.

Servant

Greenleaf, 1970

Authority given to followers.

Helps followers achieve their goals.

Is empowered.

Servant, nurturer, listener, empathetic, moral.

Charismatic

House, 1976

Beliefs imparted to followers.

Role model for beliefs imparted to followers.

Trust in the leader’s ideology.

Self-confident, dominant, role model, influential.

Contingency

Feidler, 1964

To be effective, the leader’s style fits the context of the setting.

Is either task motivated, or relationship motivated.

N/A

Varies depending on the fit of the setting.

Trait

Galton, 1869

Leadership qualities are genetic characteristics of a family and passed through generations.

Distinctive physical and psychological characteristics account for leader effectiveness.

N/A

Intelligence, strong values, high level of personal energy.

References

Manning, G., & Curtis, K. (2012). The art of leadership (4th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Northhouse, P. G. (2010). Leadership theory and practice. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
Hickman, G. R. (2010). Leading organizations: Perspectives for a new era (2nd ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.