SOCW 6070 wk 10 Final Project: Leadership Assessment

As a leader and manager in social work, I am confronted with the responsibilities of leading employees in our practice and motivate them to succeed. Effective leadership is recognized as the enabler of efficient and effective functioning of organizations. To be an effective leader/ manager, there are various strengths one has to possess. I possess the strength of excellent communication skills. I can convey precise information to other people in a simple and ambiguous way. My excellent communication skills will help me communicate with health care providers, coworkers, and insurance companies easily in challenging times when I need to understand things in social work. I find it easy to cooperate with other people in solving various issues. As a leader in social work, I need to negotiate, compromise, and coordinate with other service providers to ensure that my client’s needs are addressed, and my cooperation strength will help me achieve this. I possess critical thinking strength. Social work deals with unique problems that require unique solutions. As a social work leader, critical thinking will help me identify the issues my clients are facing and their practical solutions.

My skills align better with my social work leadership role. I have excellent problem-solving skills, interpersonal, organizational, and empathy skills which allows me to be the best leader in my social work leadership role. These skills give me a great understanding of social work experiences, problems, solutions, operational environment, and how to juggles between issues and tasks.

I believe that I have a weakness in time management, and I need to develop my time management skills further. As a social work leader, I have many responsibilities, and this requires excellent time management skills. I am not that bad in time management, but I need to be excellent to lead my organization effectively. I need to develop my time management skills further because it will allow me to accomplish many tasks in a shorter period giving me more time to focus on other issues.

The two external factors that I believe might influence my work as a social work leader are technological and political factors. Technology is significant in social work practice because it facilitates various forms of service that support social work functions. Technology might influence my work as a social work leader by helping me to communicate any changes to all social workers of our organizations irrespective of their remote locations, saving time and resources. Technology can enable me to view and review tasks accomplished by various teams in real-time. Political factors are factors influenced by government decisions. In social work, political factors are significant because they touch on public policy creation and implementation, which is used to address the problems clients face. As a social work leader, political factors may influence me to participate in political action and policy advocacy to create social change.