NHS FPX 8002 Assessment 2 Personal Leadership Portrait

Personal Leadership Portrait

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Capella University

NHS FPX 8002

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Personal Leadership Portrait

Personal leadership self-portrait is also important in healthcare as it enhances the self-awareness of leaders. The evaluation instruments will help the healthcare leaders to determine the strengths and weaknesses, as well as define the core values. The reflective practice cultivates leadership skills that foster team confidence and improve the quality of care to patients. The knowledge of the leadership profile of the healthcare professionals assists in dealing with the current and upcoming issues in the industry (Singh et al., 2024). As an individual, I feel that servant leadership is the best style. The leadership style gives individuals the ability to assume leadership roles and institute positive changes in the systems.

Personal Approach to Leadership

As a healthcare leader, I practice servant leadership by ensuring that I have strong empathy, being an active listener, and placing team development before self-interest. My strong points are creating psychologically safe places in which employees feel listened to and have the ability to express their concerns, thus improving the quality of patient care. But I have the problem of delegation and, at times, overdoing responsibility and restricting the team members from growing. My emotional intelligence is reflected in my ability to identify staff feelings in difficult circumstances and adjust the style of communication to suit the situation, but I still have to work on the aspect of controlling my emotions in stressful situations. It was demonstrated that servant leadership can bring a substantial change to healthcare performance by promoting trust and teamwork in interdisciplinary teams (Demeke et al., 2024). Although servant leadership is consistent with the compassionate healthcare environment, I can see the importance of incorporating the aspects of situational leadership in cases of crisis when a rapid and decisive response is required, and the aspect of transformational leadership in encouraging innovative solutions to healthcare issues. Having developed the corresponding styles in response to my delegation weaknesses, I will be able to guide better through the ongoing change in healthcare.

Interprofessional Community Engagement and Change Management.

My leadership style of care, which is a servant approach to healthcare, promotes interprofessional relationships with other team members by focusing on active listening and making every team member feel appreciated, regardless of their discipline. I am already good at developing team-based situations in which different competencies are valued, but I can occasionally have difficulties with prioritizing professional autonomy over the necessity of adhering to standardized procedures. During community engagement, I am more able to create trust by involving myself in open communication and caring about the stakeholders’ needs, and I also have weaknesses in terms of being able to remain engaged with them despite competing priorities. It has been shown that emotionally intelligent leaders can lessen change resistance in healthcare environments (Cavaness et al., 2020). The ability to change other people in an empathetic way due to my emotional intelligence enables me to control change management; still, I should develop the skills to identify the initial signs of change fatigue. Although I apply an inclusive language and frequently use feedback processes, I should work on my style of managing difficult conversations, which arise among professionals when the situation is tense. The sustainability of the major growth areas and the servant leadership philosophy will be further narrowed by my ability to combine health care teams with the needs of the community in the change processes.

Ethical Leadership Principles for Professional Practice

The code of ethics outlined in American Public Health Association empowers me to direct my practice in the field of public health using principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence in addition to principles of justice and respect of autonomy. I decide on the situations of population health or individual rights by utilizing the principles in the distribution of resources and policy-making processes. The ethical principle in the workplace is upheld by me by ensuring that reasoning is transparent and by offering a safe environment to the staff members to report ethical issues. The study by Franczukowska et al. (2021) demonstrated that healthcare institutions that are run by ethical leaders are the ones that show a higher level of patient satisfaction as well as reduced adverse outcomes. I have mixed both continuous training and definite ways of reporting dilemmas and actively apply ethical dialogue in the routine team meetings. A moral organization depends on a perpetual upkeep of ethical policies and a constant dialogue between the leaders and the employees in tackling emerging issues in the industry that crop up alongside the changing world of health.

Diversity and Inclusion in Health Care Leadership

I am a healthcare servant leader who understands the essence of diversity and inclusion that allows me to gain essential significance in respecting the backgrounds of the staff members and community members to whom I will be a servant leader. The framework does not merely restrict itself to mere population statistics, but rather develops areas of consensus where all individuals have representation with each other in terms of mutual understanding. Diverse group members can help leadership identify alternative solutions on how to deal with complex population health issues by avoiding a narrow-minded perspective. Established organizations that uphold inclusive practices have high-quality treatment and less population disparity between groups (Stanford, 2020). The hospital settings, which embrace inclusivity, retain the staff and, at the same time, make the healthcare operations more innovative (Acosta et al., 2024). I would work on creating inclusive workplace environments by ensuring that hiring processes are clear and well-structured, mentorship programs are in place to address minority groups, and regular cultural training of employees. By incorporating diversity measurement systems into the strategic planning framework, healthcare organizations are able to produce the most successful outcomes. Forming patient-community aligned teams will encourage improved trust relationships and improve cultural competency in interactions, such that healthcare outcomes would be more fair and healthcare would become patient-driven for different population groups.

Scholar-Practitioners in Health Care

Some of the healthcare professionals that I consider as scholar-practitioners are those who interpret theoretical studies into practical outcomes by engaging in research endeavors and critical thinking to collect evidence to develop medical knowledge. Critical thinking is a fundamental skill of the position that will enable me to evaluate the validity of the evidence and identify biased information, as well as tailor the interventions to this or that situation, rather than strictly follow the guidelines. The practice of a scholar-practitioner in healthcare leadership entails the presentation of evidence-based decisions and the creation of organizational cultures centered on research. A study conducted by Zaccagnini et al. (2020) shows that healthcare environments with a higher proportion of scholar-practitioners attain higher outcomes with respect to patient satisfaction and reduce preventable negative outcomes. The combination of healthcare research activities, which is incorporated in the clinical setting, is a sound cyclic system that allows patient bedside care questions to generate academic work that provides direct improvements in healthcare services. Scholar-practitioners in healthcare use faster translational methods in quicker innovation adoption rather than traditional methodologies of knowledge distribution (Pape et al., 2024). Academic healthcare experience combined with robust practice-based research will help scholarship practitioners to respond to complex problems in healthcare.

Conclusion

My leadership self-portrait is based on servant leadership principles along with emotional intelligence that enhances the relationship between professionals. Although I have applied skills in ethical decision-making across clinical situations, I have to increase my delegation and long-term community involvement skills. Flexibility to diversity allows me to create situations where every voice holds a primary position, leading to excellent healthcare outcomes for patients. The scholar-practitioner approach will provide me with a chance to combine both academic and clinical institutional knowledge in order to achieve improved healthcare understanding. I apply different leadership strategies in difficult situations to guide a change process in healthcare and maintain the focus on the principles of compassionate cooperation as well as the use of evidence-based practice.

Other assessments for this class: NHS FPX 8002 Assessment 1 and NHS FPX 8002 Assessment 3