Project 1-Analyze individual leadership styles in the contex…

Overview

Nurse leaders are present throughout all nursing roles, from bedside to administration and through all spheres of care. You may be familiar with a variety of leadership styles from your undergraduate studies. MSN leaders are best positioned to lead, influence, and participate in practice change within complex healthcare organizations. As described in DeNisco (2020), a contemporary leadership model has a foundation of trust and has four pillars of professionalism, relationships, inspiration, and business skills, leading to results of high-quality healthcare. Leaders in complex healthcare systems are pressed with high demands to achieve desired performance and outcomes. In this project, you will consider your individual leadership style and how it compares to the transformational leadership model presented in DeNisco. Several strategic tools can help you be a successful MSN leader, for example, the use of tools for time and stress management. This assignment will help you identify strategies to strengthen your leadership skills, support personal resources, and communicate all within various practice settings. Regardless of which track you have chosen, developing skills in written and oral professional communication, time management, stress management, and reflection will be useful in multiple leadership settings throughout your career.

Scenario

Self-evaluation is part of an annual process of reflection. As part of this process, you must complete an analysis of your current skills, accomplishments, goals, and objectives and create a strategic plan for how to improve on each of those components. In addition, your organization requires a written summary as part of the annual evaluation process. This self-evaluation summary includes communication skills, leadership style and skills, time and stress management skills, and areas of opportunity for self-improvement and prioritizing those opportunities.

Directions

For background on this self-evaluation summary, review your survey results and journals from Modules One and Two and then analyze gaps and opportunities for further professional development. Include three sources to support your claims. Specifically, include the following in your self-evaluation summary:

1. Assess personal/professional leadership style. Analyze where your leadership style fits into the transformational leadership model using your self-assessments results from Module One as a guide. This is the first step towards planning strategies for personal/professional growth. Address the following in your response:
2. Briefly describe the transformational leadership model.
3. Analyze the characteristics of the transformational leadership model as compared to your personal leadership style. Note: Use the self-assessment from Module One.
4. Identify the gaps in your skill set, describing areas you would like to further develop.
5. Plan your professional development needs based on the gaps between your style and the transformational leadership model. Include the following:
6. List your personal goals for effective leadership.
7. Discuss your strategy to further develop leadership skills.
8. Explain your plan to implement the identified skills for further development.
9. Plan strategies to support personal resources. Managing your personal resources include the effective use of time-and stress-management strategies, as well as taking time for self-restoration to build up resiliency. Having an awareness of the strategies that you tend to use most often and discovering new strategies that you could test out may reveal opportunities to optimize your personal resources and maximize your productivity while minimizing stress and burnout. Putting together a plan to use specific strategies to improve on those areas of opportunity is the next step. Use this space to detail strategies you would like to implement and how you would carry this out. Address the following in your response:
10. Briefly describe time-and stress-management strategies that you would like to engage in developing further.
11. Plan your professional development needs based on the gaps in your time-and stress-management skills. Include the following:
12. List your personal goals for effective time and stress management.
13. Discuss your strategy to improve your time-and stress-management skills.
14. Explain your plan to implement the identified skills to improve upon.
15. Explore strategies for effective communication. An important skill for both leaders and those as part of a team is communication. Having specific strategies for how to communicate with your peers and coworkers is vital to success. There are multiple associations for communication that are connected to leadership as well as for personal resource management. Consider your self-assessment analyses and the courses from CITI, and focus on an area that you would like to further develop. Address the following in your response:
16. Describe some of the benefits related to leaders who use clear communication strategies within an organization. Remember to integrate the concepts of culture, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
17. Plan your professional development needs based on the gaps youve identified in your communication skills. Include the following:
18. List your personal goals for effective communication.
19. Discuss your strategy to improve your effective communication skills.
20. Explain your plan to implement the identified skills to improve upon.

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit the following:

Self-Evaluation Summary

Your submission should be a 3- to 5-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Project One Rubric

CriteriaExceeds Expectations (100%)Meets Expectations (90%)Partially Meets Expectations (70%)Does Not Meet Expectations (0%)ValueAssess Personal/ Professional Leadership StyleExceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear and insightful manner, using industry-specific languageAssesses personal/ professional leadership style, including all identified componentsShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissionsDoes not attempt criterion25Plan Strategies to Support Personal ResourcesExceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear and insightful manner, using industry-specific languagePlans strategies to support personal resources, including all identified componentsShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissionsDoes not attempt criterion25Explore Strategies for Effective CommunicationExceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear and insightful manner, using industry-specific languageExplores strategies for effective communication, including all identified componentsShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissionsDoes not attempt criterion25Clear CommunicationExceeds expectations with an intentional use of language that promotes a thorough understandingConsistently and effectively communicates in an organized way to a specific audienceShows progress toward meeting expectations, but communication is inconsistent or ineffective in a way that negatively impacts understandingShows no evidence of consistent, effective, or organized communication10Scholarly ResourcesIncorporates more than three scholarly, current (within the last five years) sources, or use of sources is exceptionally insightfulIncorporates three scholarly, current (within the last five years) sources that support their claimsIncorporates fewer than three scholarly, current (within the last five years) sources, or not all sources support their claimsDoes not incorporate sources10APA FormatFormats in-text citations and reference list according to APA style with no errorsFormats in-text citations and reference list according to APA style with minor errors (<5)Formats in-text citations and reference list according to APA style with multiple errors (5 or more)Does not format in-text citations and reference list according to APA style5Total:100%