Assignment: Personal Leadership Philosophies

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Leadership Philosophy: Nursing

Pamella Brown

Masters in Nursing, Walden University

NURSING 6053, Section 01, Interprofessional Organizational and System Leadership

Sandra Siedlecki

April 11, 2021

Through the journey of becoming a leader, it is inevitable for one to emulate and look up to a given leader to follow and follow in their footsteps or even eventually doing better than they did. However, one through the leadership journey unknowingly, one form their unique leadership philosophy that will follow through the trip (Figliuolo, 2011 as cited in Speranza & Pierce, 2019). This paper will highlight my personal views on leadership and how I perceive it to be. Personally, leadership in the workspace is an essential entity that aims to address and show people when I become a leader. I will be what guides and motivates me toward good leadership and my personal goals towards good leadership. Therefore, this paper is a discussion of my vision, core values, and missions in leadership. Additionally, this paper will cover my assessment of my strengths through the Clifton strength assessment technique, summarise the profile of my skills and mention the key areas I would like to strengthen.

Core Values

To dictate your leadership journey and behavior, one needs to have core values to guide them and keep them in line. In nursing, and from a personal view, caring, perseverance, honesty, learning, and ambition to set a goal and work to achieve them should be a leader's core values. However, the underlying core value every nurse should possess is being caring. Dyess (2015) states that the uniting and transforming factor in the nursing profession is caring, giving a sense of responsibility to the patients. From the leadership perspective, caring is a significant value. Not only does it help in connecting with patients and with my colleagues. Caring bring about co-operation in the workspace. If employees feel cared for, it automatically commands respect and understanding. Thus, since my inception into nursing education and career life, it has been the first core value to embrace.

Learning and perseverance also prioritize my core values, from the two core values other relevant to leadership in nursing. Knowledge and determination enable one to develop diversity as a core value which is crucial in adapting to problematic situations and embracing the different cultures and people's ways of life in the workplace. American Nurses Association put out diversity being an essential quality in nursing, acknowledging and appreciating that there are several beliefs, thoughts, and attitudes in the health-seeking behaviors in the healthcare sector. Diversity is a portrayal of how we interreact with the society and our responsibility to uphold the code of ethics during health care delivery, considering and without bias toward the indifference religion, beliefs, cultures, and priorities with patients and fellow workers(American Nurses Association, n.d.).

Mission statement

To identify and tap into my vision, mission, and full potential as a nurse, my aim would be to self-reflect to find my true purpose as a nurse and a leader to my colleagues. My mission as a healthcare provider is to provide quality services and care to my patients, friends, family, colleagues, and the surrounding community through excellent and exceptional leadership and healthcare services. My immediate goal and commitment are quality healthcare provision to my patients and community to promote their overall health quality and respectable and quality leader to my colleagues and community.

Clifton Strength Assessment

The Gallup Organization's extensive research deduces that influential people get to understand their strengths and behaviors. Through which one can come up with strategies to which they attain their set targets. From the research, thirty-four themes are put out to be the definition of individual strength and behaviors. However, Pamela (2021) places five pieces to be the top to be used in Clifton'sstrengthassessment, which is well understood. From the five, I summarize my key strengths and which areas are most suitable and need improvement. I would characterize myself as an Achiever, for a very goal that I set, I push myself to the limit to achieve it. At times, my fellow students refer to me as the "the bullseye" this is attributed to my relentless efforts to achieve what I set to hit the targets.

Being a realtor can be said to be one of the most potent behaviors. This comes up naturally, as my core value of being caring makes it simple for me. I can easily connect with new people and establish deep connections with them. Other than those I have known, I can easily relate to them and create a conducive rapport. Nevertheless, for the solid point, we have those areas that derail according to the assessment. I want to improve my maximizer and futuristic as a theme and personal behavior.

Futuristic

Futuristic as behavior entails having the ability to make sense of what is currently going on but perceiving and interpreting it to what may be or what it will be in the future. In my earlier work on my leadership philosophy, one of my visions as a leader was being quick in solving the communities and my team's problems, thus leading to the quality provision of healthcare services through my leadership. William Gibson asses that we have no future because our present is too volatile. We have risk management.

The spinning of the given moment's scenarios (Henthorne, 2011). From this, we can deduce our future is determined by how to see and handle things in our current times, thus to be an effective leader, I will have to make decisions considering the future outcome. Developing my futuristic behavior will entail going through the planned development strategy.

Development strategy

To develop and build a robust futuristic behavior, I will have to through three key steps to gauge myself from time to time to determine my progress towards building a solid futuristic behavior. The initial step will be preparing myself to work with being Futuristic; implying that preparing myself to support for my futuristic thinking, i.e., for every thought or decision that I have to make, should gauge it with a futuristic approach or mentality and from the approach the path that I should choose to take I should provide a logical explanation why It was the right one. From this, my ambitious visions of the future will be rooted in real possibilities.

The second step will be to lead to a futuristic; the company that surrounds you plays a more significant part in turning out. Having a company rooted in this behavior will force me to align my vision with futuristic thinking, thus tapping into the full potential of my futuristic talent as it will be a norm to use it around them. Additionally, the company will feel exhilarated by efforts towards building and achieving the visions, thus making it easy to harness our energy to propel the idea towards reality. Finally, the final step will be to live in a futuristic manner , which will involve me having to set out more time to think about the future, i.e., for every decision I have to make that has an impact on my leadership vision, I should take more time to gauge e the decision the possible impacts it may have on my future visions. Furthermore, the more time I spend pegging my decisions with the future, the more vivid and robust I nurture the behavior, i.e., through practice, perfection is achieved as seen through the works of Jack(1997).

Maximizer

Maximizer as a behavior can be deduced as the ability to take a situation or something that is considered below average (Asplundet al., 2007). Taking it above average or to higher levels requires a substantial amount of effort. Still, it is thrilling and satisfying to bring out the change in situations deemed to be unworthy of investing in it in the long run. In line with my vision of providing quality healthcare and service to the community and patients, plus quality leadership to my fellow workmates, it requires a maximizer mentality to improve the poor healthcare services to standard healthcare services.

Development strategy

Like the futuristic development strategy, the maximizer also has three similar vital steps, the difference being the approach and style of implementation. The first step is working with maximizer; through seeking roles requiring me to help people succeed or change their situations below average to better levels. Through the coaching, managing, and mentoring their positions, my focus on maximization strengths will improve, thus turning around situations and people's characters. The second step will be leading with maximizer, devising ways to measure my performance and others' performance. This will help spot areas that can be easily improved or prioritize during the improvement process, boosting my tactical mentality during maximization.

Assessment of progress

To determine the progress, an evaluation will be made every four weeks. The determinant factors that will gauge progress will be how many situations deemed below average did I manage to turn around.

Conclusion

It can be deduced that the two behaviors are a vital part of the vision for better leadership and to achieve my foreseen leadership philosophy. The development plan's analysis and compression can be effective in developing the skills only if I stick to them.

References

American Nurses Association. (n.d.). Diversity Awareness. Retrieved from https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/workforce/clinical-practice -material/diversity-awareness/

Asplund, J., Lopez, S. J., Hodges, T., & Harter, J. (2007). The Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 technical report: Development and validation. Princeton (NJ): Gallup Inc.

Dyess SL, Prestia AS, & Smith MC. (2015). Support for Caring and Resiliency Among Successful Nurse Leaders. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 39(2):104–116. doi: 10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000101.

Henthorne, T. (2011). William Gibson: A Literary Companion (Vol. 12). McFarland.

Speranza, C.R., & Pierce, A. (2019). Development of a Personal Leadership Philosophy: An & Experiential and Reflective Opportunity in the Graduate Classroom. Journal of Leadership Education. doi: 10.12806/V18/I3/A2

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