Personal Leadership Philosophies

Top 5 Signature Themes of Talent

Doing a strengthsfinder assessment has helped me understand my strengths and behaviors. My own top 5 strengths are:

1. Restorative: adept at dealing with problems and good at figuring out what is wrong and resolving it.

2. Responsibility: take psychological ownership of what they say they will do and are committed to stable values such as honesty and loyalty.

3. Learner: great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.

4. Connectedness: have faith in the links between all things. They believe there are few coincidences and that almost every event has a reason.

5. Relator: enjoy close relationships with others. They find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal.

Strengths and characteristics

Based on the feedback from the StrengthsFinder assessment, this writer will seek to improve on responsibility and restorative strengths. Improving my responsibility strength will enact a more thorough and further depict my devotedness in doing what i have promised. More so, as a leader, others will regard me as reliable and trustworthy due to the fact that I have established a reputation for fulfilling my commitments. According to Gallup (2019), people who have responsibility talent, have a strong sense of commitment and it motivate them to make sure that things are carried through to completion even when difficulties arise. Being a model for your team members is vital and most people regard you as the dependable and reliable one. As a leader, when you do your best you will get the best from your team in return (Meliniotis, 2015).   

Additionally improving my restorative strength  will let me be able to offer people useful suggestions about what needs to be fixed, upgraded, renovated, or done better (Gallup, 2019). Leader need to develop restorative strategies which will enable them to assess challenges, help resolve differences and solve problems. As a leader once you've identified a problem, proper conflict resolution is required. You need to be comfortable with confrontation so you derail problems before they get out of hand. A great nurse needs to have excellent communication skills, especially when it comes to speaking, listening and problem solving. So improving my communication characteristic trait will be beneficial especially when dealing with my patients and families.

Core values

Core value reminds us about the ability to talk with others, to work through differences, and to create opportunities for such discourse are important toward achieving better outcomes (Bent-Goodley, 2017). Applying nurse core values in all your actions ensures the trust put in your hands by your patients.  The two core values I will like to strengthen are integrity and dignity. The core value of integrity focus on the importance of truth and morality in each interaction. As a nurse, it is vital that this ethical value be adhered to without it, people will not trust what is being said or done regardless of the intention. Improvements in the dignity core value means that all people should be treated with respect and have the right to determine their decisions. As a nurse, it is imperative for me to help people to find their voices and change their situations, and support them in the process. Each person should be valued, respected, and met with civility and care (Bent-Goodley, 2017).

 References

Bent-Goodley, T. B. (2017). Living Our Core Values. Social Work, 62(4), 293. Retrieved from https://searchebscohostcom.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edb&AN=125318396&site=eds-live&scope=site

Catherine Meliniotis (2015). Effective Nursing Leadership. Retrieved from https://www.elitecme.com/resource-center/nursing/effective-nursing-leadership/

Gallup. (2019).Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0. Retrieved from https://walden.gallup.com