Week 4 Discussion
Discussion 2: Your Leadership Profile
Do you believe you have the traits to be an effective leader? Perhaps you are already in a supervisory role, but as has been discussed previously, appointment does not guarantee leadership skills.
How can you evaluate your own leadership skills and behaviors? You can start by analyzing your performance in specific areas of leadership. In this Discussion, you will complete Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment. This assessment will identify your personal strengths, which have been shown to improve motivation, engagement, and academic self-conference. Through this assessment, you will discover your top five themes—which you can reflect upon and use to leverage your talents for optimal success and examine how the results relate to your leadership traits.
To Prepare:
Complete the StrengthsFinder assessment instrument, per the instructions found in this Module’s Learning Resources.
Please Note: This Assessment will take roughly 30 minutes to complete.
- Once you have completed your assessment, you will receive your “Top 5 Signature Themes of Talent” on your screen.
- Click the Download button below Signature Theme Report, and then print and save the report. We also encourage you to select the Apply tab to review action items.
NOTE: Please keep your report. You will need your results for future courses. Technical Issues with Gallup:
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- Reflect on the results of your Assessment, and consider how the results relate to your leadership traits.
Sample Paper – Week 4 Discussion 2
NURS 6053 – Leadership Theories in Practice
Effective Leadership
Student’s Name:
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Effective Leadership
Effectiveness in leadership is not achievable overnight. It involves an iterative process that requires one to assess and evaluate their strengths as collaborators and communicators continuously and their weaknesses. An ineffective leader, for example, can cost a company more fortunes than their morale. According to the Gallup research, poor management affects over 25 percent of employees by disengaging them. Such disengagement often leads to low productivity, profitability, and high employee turnovers. Effective leadership does not have a single agreed or right way of leading a team. Successful leaders have several traits that are common among themselves. Effective nursing leaders are those who help in communicating the hospital’s vision and goals, influence change, and guide their teams.
Leadership Profile
Similar to any other individual, I possess unique behavioral styles baked into me while growing up. Together with these styles, I also have some typical approaches, with some working in my favor throughout the advancement into my current role as a leader. Several scholars have identified different characteristics that effective leaders should possess. As a leader, I believe my most outstanding trait is the ability to identify the strengths and weaknesses of my team. This ability helps me in improving my leadership style since I am always on the front line in identifying these strengths and improving the areas of weaknesses. From the Gallup’s StrengthsFinder, my strengths as a leader include empathy, learner, connectedness, achiever, and an include (Gallup, 2019). My position as a nurse supervisor requires me to be aware of my strengths since I play a formal leadership role within the department.
Strengths
From the report, my two strengths are connectedness and learner. According to Gallup, a learner is someone who desires to improve their abilities by wanting to know more. Also, learning is essential as the competency of a nurse comes from the acquired skills and knowledge (Poorchangizi et al., 2017). Connectedness requires that one entrust his faith in having connections and links. A connected leader understands that everything happens for a reason, and the meaning of each event is essential. By nurturing connectedness, I am likely to influence individuals into realizing the importance of group efforts and teamwork in accomplishing assigned tasks.
Core Values
In the nursing profession, there are core values that act as standard requirements for all educational and clinical nursing environments. These core values not only guide individuals, but they also help in motivating the nurses’ professional behaviors depending on their fields of specialization and working environments. There are several leadership values that one can choose. The standout ones for me are the commitment to use evidence-based care and be open to different opinions. These two values work closely with being empathic and an includer.
Characteristics
Individualization and adaptability are the two characteristics that need strengthening. Being adaptable is equivalent to being flexible and without a fixed perspective on aspects. Working as a nurse leader, for example, in the emergency department, requires me to become accustomed to having stressful situations (Jamshidi et al., 2016). Managing to show how adaptable these situations are will influence my team by making them feel that they are not alone. Adaptability is also crucial in leadership since even stable situations may sometimes become uncomfortable, especially when new challenges arise. Individualization will allow me to understand the uniqueness of each team member and the different roles they play. Individualization requires that I pay close attention to my colleagues’ attitudes, skills, and interests to help them reach their highest potentials.
Conclusion
Effective leadership requires leaders to influence their teams and lead them forward with motivation, inspiration, enthusiasm, and passion. As a leader, it is necessary to invest time in the team to understand their priorities, needs, weaknesses, and strengths and help them improve. Understanding the needs and preferences of a team makes them feel valuable, and the leader will understand the best ways to keep them motivated. To understand others, a leader needs to understand himself or herself first, his areas of strength and weakness, the core values needed, and the characteristics they need to develop.
References
Gallup. (2019). Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0. Retrieved from https://walden.gallup.com
Jamshidi, N., Molazem, Z., Sharif, F., Torabizadeh, C., & Najafi Kalyani, M. (2016). The challenges of nursing students in the clinical learning environment: A qualitative study. The Scientific World Journal, 2016, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/1846178
Poorchangizi, B., Farokhzadian, J., Abbaszadeh, A., Mirzaee, M., & Borhani, F. (2017). The importance of professional values from clinical nurses’ perspective in hospitals of a medical university in Iran. BMC Medical Ethics, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-017-0178-9
By Day 3 of Week 5
Post a brief description of your results from the StrengthsFinder assessment. Then, briefly describe two core values, two strengths, and two characteristics that you would like to strengthen based on the results of your StrengthsFinder assessment. Be specific.
By Day 6 of Week 5
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by making recommendations for how they might strengthen the leadership behaviors profiled in their StrengthsFinder assessment, or by commenting on lessons to be learned from the results that can be applied to personal leadership philosophies and behaviors.
Submission and Grading Information
Grading Criteria
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Week 5 Discussion Rubric
Post by Day 3 and Respond by Day 6 of Week 5
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