Discussion
Purpose
This discussion aims to examine your leadership skills, determine your leadership gaps, explore developmental opportunities, and differentiate between a leader’s strengths and a manager’s skills.
Instructions
Reflect on your personal and professional experience using the lessons in Week 1, your NR703 Self-Reflection: Performance Behaviors of Transformational Leaders, and the Strengths-to-Strategy Plan results. Address the following:
- Describe and give examples of your two strongest leadership competencies and two most significant leadership gaps, weaknesses, or developmental opportunities. (1 paragraph)
- Describe and explain how your leadership strengths differ from management skills or behaviors. (1 paragraph)
- Describe how you will integrate emotional intelligence into your leadership identity and how this may impact the characteristics of your followers. (1 paragraph)Building Leadership Capacity Discussion
Construct your responses using the CARE Plan method.
Program Competencies
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
- Applies organizational and system leadership skills to affect systemic corporate culture changes and promote continuous improvement in clinical outcomes. (PO 6)
- Appraises current information systems and technologies to improve health care. (POs 6, 7)
- Creates a supportive organizational culture for flourishing collaborative teams to facilitate clinical disease prevention and promote population health at all system levels. (PO 8)
Course Outcomes
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
- Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6)
- Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6)
- Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PC 6; PO 8)
- APA FORMAT