leader plan!

Personal Leadership Vision:

In the next five years a plan to be in the radiology field, hopefully pursuing my career as a radiologist. Most likely at the five-year mark I will be working in a hospital somewhere to further my knowledge and continue to gain experience. During this time, I hope to become a leader, whether it is occasionally during a group endeavor, clinical instructor, or a tech that is assisting students to further their career. In this manner, I cover the things I intend to see by then. As part of a group of other healthcare workers I will eventually find myself as the leader, and by this point I hope I will have developed enough to make effective decisions based off personal experience that involves equal and fair judgement calls. If I became a clinical instructor at a hospital, which I would enjoy, I believe I have had enough experience from good and bad leaders to be effective in this area. As the leader here, I can help to further the education of people who are pursuing a similar career path. With the experience I have now and will gain in the future, I can use that knowledge to do it how I think it would make things better for students. Being a tech and not being the clinical instructor still has leadership roles. The techs become leaders when it is a one-on-one with the students. As the leader here, you can break down leadership skills down to a more individualistic point of view. Each student has a specific way of learning, so it is a more precise process.

Personal Leadership Mission:

In the coming years, to achieve the vision previously mentioned, I will need to develop more leadership skills. Not only this, but I will also be furthering the development of the knowledge I currently possess. This can all be achieved by taking classes such as this to push the information to myself. Other than that, using personal experience and developing notions based off these is how I develop as a leader. These situations allow for insight to what I think works and what I think could be done in a different way to be more beneficial. This includes having the critical thinking skills to ensure that these steps can be followed.

Factors Critical for Success:

There are a few factors that will be important for the success of my leadership skills to develop as needed. The access to information on leadership skills and development of these skills is crucial. More simplistic things such as books or work assignments are great for progression for this knowledge. Having a great range of leaders throughout life is a great resource to have as well. This will give many different viewpoints and strategies to get an idea of to formulate my own leadership style. Having people that will voice their mistakes and successes as a leader is a great tool to have as well. There is a lot to be learned from someone else’s experience. The support needed for my leadership goals would be to find someone in the role I aspire to be in and hope they take me under their wing. This can help to get a jumpstart on how they lead in their role, figure out the strengths and weaknesses of that position, and use the information to guide me along the right path.

Measurable Goals:

The specific goals I have set for myself are mostly school oriented. They are to graduate school on time, make sure I get grades that I am happy with, and to gain as much knowledge about radiography that I can. Gaining my bachelor's degree is the main end goal with school. This way I can be confident in my work. This will go hand in hand with being a confident leader and knowing what I am doing when leading. Finishing my goals in a timely manner is helpful in the sense of organization. Being organized throughout this program is going to relieve a hefty amount of stress and unnecessary issues. Writing due dates down in a planner is a great way to begin. Staying motivated to keep me from procrastinating is another goal I have for myself. Sometimes things continually get put off until it is too late and there is not anything to do about it at that point. Another goal post school is to become a radiologic technologist. After this I would like to become certified in a few modalities to make myself more advantageous for hiring organizations. This would then hopefully turn into being a Radiologist Assistant. These are my achievable goals in my eyes. My one realistically high goal is to become a radiologist. This is about ten years total of work to get to and is a very strenuous process. This would have to be the only realistically high goal I have planned for myself at this moment. It is not impossible, but it will take a lot of dedication and willingness to put in the time and effort to reach it successfully.

Action Steps:

The specific action steps I will need to take for my goal of becoming a leader within the radiology field is to graduate with my bachelor’s degree in May 2022. Each semester holds the steps of studying and staying on track with my workload to achieve my goal of making the grades I intend to get. Another step I would like to take at least once every month is taking time out of my schedule to sit down and recap how I have developed in the past days. This will help me to see what was consistent and what needs to be worked on. Setting the goal of once every month allows enough time in between to see a difference, but soon enough to see the development of these skills. Self-assessing is very crucial whenever trying to develop skills.

Desired Results:

All these goals are set at different time points and different durations, however, most of them play off each other. So, I will know I am closer to most of my goals whenever the preceding goal is completed. I will realize my goal of graduating is closing in when I am in my closing semester of the Radiography program. When I pass my registry, I will know my goal of becoming a radiologic tech is in sight and my goals of becoming a leader in the radiology field is in sight of completion.