PART 1: Leadership Self-Assessment
General instructions:
Reflect on your leadership experience, philosophy, and self-leadership skills and write a scholarly paper addressing the following requirements:
- Use Microsoft Word current edition to complete the assignment. Submit as a .doc or .docx file.
- Write 2-4 total pages (excluding title and reference pages).
- Follow APA current edition rules for grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation consistent with formal, scholarly writing.
- Include in-text citations and matching references in APA current edition format.
Include the following sections (detailed criteria listed below and in the grading rubric):
- Introduction: Include general statements on the role of the master’s prepared nurse as a leader and the identification of the purpose of the paper.
- Personal Leadership Experience: Describe your personal experience serving in formal and/or informal leadership roles. How effective do you feel you are as a leader? How comfortable are you serving in leadership roles?
- Leadership Style: Identify the leadership style that aligns best with your philosophy and preferences. Describe the style and provide a rationale for why you selected it. Which leadership style(s) are best suited for your future area of practice? Provide support from at least one scholarly source.
- Leadership Competencies: Review the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) Nurse Leader Core Competencie Links to an external site.. Describe two competency areas you believe to be personal strengths and two competency areas in which you have growth opportunities. Provide support from at least one scholarly source. The source may be the AONL Nurse Leader Core Competencies.
- Strategies: Discuss three evidence-based strategies to help you achieve the AONL competencies identified as opportunities for growth.
- Conclusion: Provide a conclusion, including a summary of your leadership style, leadership competencies, and strategies.
PART 2: Self-Leadership
General instructions:
Self-leadership is an indispensable skill for today’s healthcare leaders. A leader’s ability to effectively govern their emotions, communication, and motivation provides insight into their capacity to lead others. Leaders and managers with strong self-leadership skills are crucial to helping organizations achieve their goals.
Answer the following questions using a separate Microsoft Word document.
Include the following sections:
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- Explain the relationship of self-leadership to leadership competency. How does a leader’s self-leadership skills impact those they lead?
- Identify one self-leadership skill that you consider to be a strength.
- Identify one self-leadership skill in which you have an opportunity for improvement.
- Discuss two strategies to cultivate your self-leadership skills.