Personal Leadership Portrait assignment

Personal Leadership Portrait Assignment

• Assignment Overview
You will submit your Personal Leadership Portrait assignment this week. In this assignment, you will evaluate your own leadership
characteristics and your personal approach to health care leadership, bringing together all of the aspects of leadership discussed in this course
and creating a portrait of the health care professional and leader you aspire to be.
• What You Need to Know
Servant leadership requires a significant paradigm shift from the traditional leader-centric approaches, which seem outdated for the realities of
health care today, when interprofessional communication, collaboration, and teamwork are essential. Supporting, developing, and empowering
others to growth and self-actualization improves the organization, the leader, and the communities and patients served. Hanse, Harlin,
Jarebrant, Ulin, and Winkel (2017) discuss servant leaders as working in sustainable organizations that evoke the best in their staff, optimizing
collaboration, quality of care and outcomes for those served (patients and communities).
Leadership means different things to different people, and different areas of practice may have some differing views on leadership.
Nevertheless, there are many commonalities as well. To hear how real leaders in health care and other public services define leadership, listen
to:
• How Do You Define Leadership? (Suggested speakers are Jan Vinita White, Tyler Zerwekh, and Shelly Boyum-Breen.)
Read the following articles on servant leadership to better understand this style of leadership and how it might align with your development as a
health care leader with a focus on empowerment and service to others.
• Belton, L., & Anderson, P. (2017). Servant leadership: A journey, not a race. Health Management, 17(4), 268–270. Retrieved from
https://healthmanagement.org/c/healthmanagement/issuearticle/servant-leadership-a-journey-not-a-race
• Jit, R., Sharma, C. S., & Kawatra, M. (2017). Healing a broken spirit: Role of servant leadership. Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers,
42(2), 80–94.
• Savel, R. H., & Munro, C. L. (2017). Servant leadership: The primacy of service. American Journal of Critical Care, 26(2), 97–99. Retrieved
from http://ajcc.aacnjournals.org/content/26/2/97
Reference
Hanse, J. J., Harlin, U., Jarebrant, C., Ulin, K., & Winkel, J. (2017). The impact of servant leadership dimensions on leader-member exchange
among health care professionals. The Journal of Nursing Management, 24(2), 228–234.
Write Your Paper
Write a 6- to 8-page personal leadership portrait in which you address the following:
• Evaluate your personal approach to health care leadership.
o Identify the leadership characteristics you already possess.
o Analyze your strengths and limitations (areas for development).
o Compare your leadership characteristics with a predominant leadership style and its application to professional practice.

o Assess other leadership styles you might integrate into your skills repertoire to enhance your effectiveness as a leader and manage

o 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.
o Consider interprofessional relationships with staff, community agencies, organizations, and other stakeholders.
o Identify your strengths and weaknesses related to interprofessional relationships, community engagement, and change management.
o 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.
o Identify the relevant ethical leadership principles for your discipline (public health, health administration, or nursing).
o Evaluate best practices for developing an ethical culture in the workplace.
• Explain how health care leaders can address diversity and inclusion.
o What do diversity and inclusion mean to you within the context of population health?
o Explain the importance of diversity and inclusion to effective leadership.
o For example, cultivating good employee and community relations.
o How does an effective leader develop a diverse and inclusive workplace (strategies, best practices)?
o How do diversity and inclusion contribute to health care quality and service to the community?
o What best practices would you recommend to address issues of diversity and inclusion?
• Explain how scholar-practitioners contribute to leadership and professional development in the field of health care.
o Define scholar-practitioner, in your own words.
o Explain the importance of critical thinking to scholar-practitioners.
o Evaluate the influence of scholar-practitioners on health care leadership and professional development.
o Explain the importance of scholar-practitioners to professional practice. Consider their value in:
o Expanding the knowledge base.
o Applying new and existing knowledge, research, and scholarship to solve real-world problems.
o Improving health care quality and safety.
Note: You may use the Week 9 Assignment Example [PDF] to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would
look like. 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: Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
o Proofread your writing to avoid errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your
evaluation.