Discussion 2: Leadership and Emotional Intelligence AssessmentREVISED 10.1.25 (added Turnitin requirement)

Healthcare is in vast need of transformation. For radical changes to occur, leaders in micro, meso, and macrosystems (in many various capacities) must emerge to facilitate the necessary work. The work to be done is far too large for a few. The newly released Future of Nursing 2020 to 2030 report is both aspirational and ambitious. Dr. Susan Hassmiller states that Nurses can play a central role to creating a fair and just world for everyone. The new report calls on nurses to build on the gains of the work completed from the prior decade. Dr. Hassmiller notes that Nurses can not give what they do not have. To accomplish the needs for health equity we must develop effective, healthy leaders.

Assignment Overview (Context) This assignment is designed to provide an opportunity for the students to explore their individual leadership strengths and weaknesses and to examine their emotional intelligence. Through leaning about ourselves, we become aware of strengths needed from others to compose a successful team. For this interactive class discussion, begin with a review of the required readings in Module I

Strengths Based Leadership:. After reading the required assignments, take the self-assessment exercise by Rath and Conchie (instructions on how to take the assessment can be found below).

Use the unique access code accompanying your text to take the StrengthsFinder 2.0Assessment. This assessment will take about 25-35 minutes to complete. To access the StrengthsFinder 2.0 Assessment, visit strengths.gallup.com. After completing the appraisal, you will receive a highly customized Strengths-Based Leadership guide that lists your top five themes of strengths as well as several suggestions for leading with each theme and illustrations of each theme in action (pg. 99). For each of the 34 themes, there are strategies that can be used for leveraging that theme to meet followers’ four basic needs (defined in the book), and tips for leading others who are strong in that theme…the guide… can be used as a reference for building on the strengths of your team and the people around you “(pg. 99).

Research findings of Rath and Conchie (2008) indicate that leaders do not have to be good at every aspect of leading. What a relief! However, to be effective change agents, these authors argue the importance of knowing one’s leadership strengths and leveraging those strengths to build strong teams. How does one leverage those strengths? Consider how one’s leadership strengths could potentially weaken a team. In addition to the leadership assessment exercise, please read the required readings before completing the assignment.

Rath, T., & Conchie, B. (2008). Strengths Based Leadership. New York: NY: Gallup

Press. ISBN: 978-1-59562-025-5 (Text must be a new copy for you to obtain unique access code for self-assessment; while you can purchase an assessment online, the cost is significantly less with a new copy of the book!)

Emotional Intelligence: Login to https://www.talentsmarteq.com/eiqb2/welcome.php to access the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal Test that accompanies the Graves Emotional Intelligence Habits (2023) text. Sign in using the unique passcode (found in the back of your book). The passcode is good for one person only so used books will not benefit you. This appraisal takes about 15-20 minutes to complete. Emotional Intelligence 2.0.

Strength-based Leadership/Emotional Intelligence Assessment Instructions

Each student will post an initial post of no more than 750 words in the discussion. First person may be used for this assignment. Headings and the reference list are excluded from the word count. The discussion will be supported with peer reviewed citations and references in the correct APA 7th ed format.

Include a copy of your Strengths Insight Guide or Your Signature Theme Report

as an attachment to your initial discussion. Do not pay for additional assessments unless you want the assessment for your personal interest, the book required in this course will have a code that covers the assessment required for the course and the report. Watch the tutorial video for how to find your report without additional cost.

Discussion Questions and Grading Rubric

Overall points are awarded based on the quality of the posts and the degree to which the submissions contribute to class discussion. Students must show evidence of engagement throughout the discussion and postings should reflect application of the assigned lesson materials.

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Criteria

Nurses are leaders.

Briefly describe your identified strengths from the Strengths-based leadership assessment and attach the assessment to the discussion.

Create a visual table of the domains and correctly place your top 5 strengths under each domain.

Briefly describe the results of your EQ assessment.

In the required readings, you are asked to choose one additional chapter from the Emotional Intelligence Habits book to read. Which chapter did you choose? Why did you choose the chapter? Did the chapter have any information that you may use in the future? Very briefly discuss the selected chapter.

2 Points

Visionary leaders do not make change alone. Based on the Strength Based Leadership Assessment, what strengths from others do you need to build a successful team? Any strength taken to excess can become a weakness.

Reflect on how your strengths could potentially weaken your team’s success. Refer to the assessment findings for guidance. How will you assure your strengths do not weaken the team?

Critically analyze the evidence for emotional intelligence. Is emotional intelligence a valid concept? Note: when you critically analyze a topic you will look at studies that support and do not support findings related to emotional intelligence. This section must include citations for the research you analyzed. Offer your opinion of the value/meaning of emotional intelligence to leadership.

You may use Artificial Intelligence to help you generate ideas for a critical analysis but you must have references to support the analysis content and the writing of the critical analysis must be in your own words (not AI written). If you have used AI to assist you with creating ideas, please attach a copy of the transcript from AI showing the prompt you submitted and the AI response.

Discuss the results of your EQ assessment with friends, family, peers, supervisor and/or your classmates.

Do you and others agree with the findings? If yes, provide one or more examples in support of findings.

If you or others do not agree, explain the reasoning and provide one or more examples that counters the findings.

Scholarship: Student consistently follows the instructions located with this rubric titled Strength-based Leadership Assessment Instructions. Instructions include an expectation of an APA format, concise writing within the limits of the word count, correct use of grammar and correct labeling of post and cross post. Headings and the reference list are excluded from the word limit. There is not a minimum number of references however scholarly work is expected with peer-reviewed evidence used to support the discussion.

15 Points

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