Leadership Philosophy
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Leadership Philosophy
Leadership is the crucial determinant of the success of each institution. It is a skill that requires continuous learning with the application of administrative- evidence-based practice, especially in healthcare (Duggan et al., 2015). Improved quality of care and patient satisfaction is the ultimate goal of every health institution. This only happens when leaders and care providers have intense mastery of desirable leadership skills. Therefore, each stakeholder must have a compelling philosophy that promotes multidimensional growth for both the institution and the practitioner. It is paramount to note that the personal values of each help guide their relationship with others and their behavioral conduct. A personal philosophy always reflects a person’s mission and desires. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and understand one’s leadership philosophy to increase effectiveness and enhance productivity. This paper aims to indicate my core values, vision/mission statement as a leader and provide an analysis of my Clifton strengths assessment with a summary of my profile results. It will also discuss critical behaviors that I intend to strengthen. Finally, the paper will elaborate on a developmental plan for improving the key actions.
Core Values
Honesty, hard work, kindness, discipline, teamwork, continuous learning, and success are my fundamental core values. These values help mold my perspective to others and all activities around me and assist in ensuring the desirable goal is achieved on time with the satisfaction of all stakeholders. In my opinion, all these values can be put to action when a positive mindset, willingness to learn, integrity, and perseverance are all considered by all participants, especially the leaders. On top of all this, I always remember that no one is perfect, but anything is achievable with the right leadership and focus. This is the driving force that helps me follow my philosophy. A leader is a person who fully utilizes honesty by conducting his roles with an open mind, thus set an example to others without coercion, ignorance, or disregard (Gottlieb and Gottlieb, 2017). Similarly, continuous learning is critically adhered to since new strategies provide better solutions for handling arising problems.
Personal Vision
My vision is to perform my duties to the best of my knowledge without biases and ensures that teamwork is the driving force of success. My dream is to have all people work together by developing a culture that allows collaboration and knowledge sharing with everyone, maximumly utilizing their strengths, thus resulting in the stakeholders’ overall satisfaction (Thompson and Clark 2018). I also envision a point where my leadership will involve unique strategies that will improve the quality of care, reduce cost, and improve my colleagues’ working conditions. Even with existing cultural diversities, I envision a scenario of minimal to zero conflicts and respect for those with divergent views. Finally, my vision focuses on the continued application of administrative-evidence-based practice to mold the leaders who guide others (Duggan et al., 2015).
Clifton Strength Assessment
As demonstrated by the Clifton Strengths assessment, my key themes were; execution, influence, relationship building, and strategic thinking. Overall, the key theme was relationship building. I consider myself a person who focuses on teamwork due to the existent variation of individual strength and the need for people to learn from others in the process of mastery. I also believe that people have been molded by their cultures, religion, and upbringing, which needs to be respected, focusing on combined efforts for success. I am a firm believer in taking action, which is behind my high execution capabilities. As a leader, I believe that I should always act as a role model, and this helps influence others into conducting their day to day responsibilities. Finally, I still want to include others in decision-making to attain overall satisfaction and create preparedness for change incase any arises.
Behaviors I wish to Strengthen.
Despite being good at execution, multitasking has become a threat in that I always find myself overwhelmed by many tasks that I am managing at the same time. As much as this helps save time, it gives me personal exhaustions that reduce my productivity level in that some tasks get handled well, others moderately, and others poorly, which calls for repetition. I plan to have a scheme that allows me to take maximumly two tasks simultaneously, thus avoiding any undesirable outcomes. I also have a problem with handling failures. In most cases, I get filled with rage, disappointment, and stress at any given time when I notice low accomplishment of a task or project. This prevents me from analyzing the causes of the outcome and alternate strategies to apply next time. I plan to take failure as a learning point with a focus on the cause of failure and avoiding taking the failure as the end of achievements.
A Development Plan of Improvement of the Behaviour
To prevent the multitasking of tasks and, ultimately, poor performance, I intend always to plan my task based on relevance and time frame required to accomplish each task. Out of this, I intend to conduct two tasks when one needs more time and the other short time, but all should be in the order of priority. Similarly, I plan to attend training sessions and seminars that focus on task handling and maximization of productivity to learn new and improved techniques. I also plan to engage other people in reducing my functions to the most critical and urgent ones (Gifford et al., 2018).
Failure is a regular occurrence until it is overridden by repetition. My emotional weakness in handling failures requires a change of emotional quotient, which can be achieved by learning from others, attending training sessions, reading appropriate books, and practicing the acquired knowledge. I plan to obtain the resources by purchase, subscription, or enrollment and ensure completion followed by continuous practice with weekly personal evaluation. This behavior requires subjective intent as well as help from others. As such, I plan to work with my mentors in changing the behavior (Bright, 2019).
Conclusion
Personal philosophy is always necessary to guide people in making choices that best suit their purpose and give them intrinsic satisfaction. Having a personal philosophy that revolves around one’s strengths helps them grow passion in their field of specialization, especially in leadership. Leadership philosophy helps one identify their behavioral weakness and create an achievable plan that sees helps them guide others in the journey of success.
References
Bright A. L. (2019). Practicing Leadership Skills through Peer Mentoring and Teaching: the Lived Experience of BSN Students. International journal of nursing education scholarship, 16(1), /j/ijnes.2019.16.issue-1/ijnes-2019-0022/ijnes-2019-0022.xml. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijnes-2019-0022
Duggan, K., Aisaka, K., Tabak, R. G., Smith, C., Erwin, P., & Brownson, R. C. (2015). Implementing administrative evidence based practices: lessons from the field in six local health departments across the United States. BMC health services research, 15, 221. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-0891-3
Gifford, W. A., Squires, J. E., Angus, D. E., Ashley, L. A., Brosseau, L., Craik, J. M., Domecq, M. C., Egan, M., Holyoke, P., Juergensen, L., Wallin, L., Wazni, L., & Graham, I. D. (2018). Managerial leadership for research use in nursing and allied health care professions: a systematic review. Implementation science : IS, 13(1), 127. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-018-0817-7
Gottlieb, L. N., & Gottlieb, B. (2017). Strengths-Based Nursing: A Process for Implementing a Philosophy Into Practice. Journal of family nursing, 23(3), 319–340. https://doi.org/10.1177/1074840717717731
Thompson, D. R., & Clark, A. M. (2018). Leading by gaslight? Nursing’s academic leadership struggles. Journal of advanced nursing, 74(5), 995–997. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13399
Question
Develop and submit a personal leadership philosophy that reflects what you think are characteristics of a good leader. Use the scholarly resources on leadership you selected to support your philosophy statement. Your personal leadership philosophy should include the following:
• A description of your core values.
• A personal mission/vision statement.
• An analysis of your CliftonStrengths Assessment summarizing the results of your profile
• A description of two key behaviors that you wish to strengthen.
• A development plan that explains how you plan to improve upon the two key behaviors you selected and an explanation of how you plan to achieve your personal vision. Be specific and provide examples.