Personal Leadership Philosophies Example Solution

Leadership is an integral part of nursing practice. Leadership styles vary among nurse leaders in nursing practice. These styles are based on nursing leadership theories. The leader’s core values, professional mission, vision, behavior, and personality are some of the contributors to the leader’s choice of style of leadership. Each style has its own strengths and weaknesses in nursing leadership and management. A leadership philosophy forms a system of beliefs, emotions, and character of the leader that guide the leader’s decision-making and social relations. The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate my leadership philosophy

My Core Values

I complete the Clinton Strengths Insight Guide survey evaluation of personal values and strengths. My core values are positivity, empathy, acknowledgment of human emotions, inclusivity, flexibility and arrangement for maximum productivity, and a belief in just and consistent treatment. I have an enthusiasm to change my environment through positive thinking. I believe in tolerance of differing opinions to make positive outcomes of these differences. I believe that every person’s thinking and personality can produce something positive for the common team’s goal. I fancy incorporating people thinking and emotions into decision-making. Behind human reasoning, some emotions determine their actions and excisions. Empathy allows me to put myself in the other team members’ shoes and understand their reasoning behind the decisions. Emotional intelligence is one of the core values that I hope to sharpen in the future as a practicing nurse. Sharing the decision in clinical decision-making enhances inclusivity. Brunt & Bogdan (2021) argued that shared decision-making is a more effective way of leadership in nursing practice. Shared decision-making allows more participation and active involvement of the team in making team decisions that every team member will have to own the outcomes. My belief in incorporating inclusive leadership for maximum productivity provides me with a reassurance of achieving transforming the input of each individual into a meaningful team output.

Personal Mission and Vision Statement

My mission in the profession is to provide nursing care that is equitable, timely, just, and patient-centered nursing care through effective team leadership and coordination. I believe that at one time I will be charged with the repressibility to provide nursing leadership direction in decision making at personal and group levels. Under these circumstances, I hope to incorporate my core values. My vision is to provide ethical and evidence-based direct and indirect care to my patients without infringing the patient’s autonomy and cultural beliefs. The current paradigm in nursing care revolves around evidence-based practice and culturally sensitive care. My vision is to ensure that at all times my nursing care doesn’t contradict these two concepts of modern nursing.

Clifton Strengths Assessment

Clifton Strengths guide by Gallup was been used by various learners to identify and develop leadership skills (Bloom, 2018; Comer et al., 2019). The Clifton Strengths assessment provided me with self-reflection on the personal strengths that would shape my future leadership style and principles. Five themes came out from this assessment: positivity, includer, arranger, consistency, and empathy. The positivity theme manifested my contagious nature to influence my colleagues into thinking positively in all situations and converting these situations into significant personal and group outcomes. To achieve this, I would need the inclusion and arrangement abilities to ensure no bias but the consistent treatment of colleagues. The theme of empathy also reinforces my core values aforementioned. Further analysis showed that these themes are related and would complement my ultimate leadership physiology supporting the transformational ideology in leadership.

Behaviors to Strengthen

The balance and contrasts between the transactional and transformational basis of the common styles of leadership are still not instilled in me. My short-term goals aim to ensure that colleagues assert their commitment to the common goal. This makes me sometimes my personal goals at the expense of transforming others’ commitment (Carvalho et al., 2019; Broome & Marshall, 2021). This makes my philosophy a nonmutual one. The transformational style requires that the leader and the follower have a mutual relationship (Brunt & Bogdan, 2021; (Broome & Marshall, 2021). Gratifying my team members’ motives and needs overrides my focus on personal professional commitments. Secondly, I find it not more effective to work alone and would sometimes seek colleagues’ opinions on indecisive matters of daily professional development. This independence makes thinking about other successes and contributions paramount. However, I also have a personal mission to achieve in providing timely care. somehow, achieving timely delivery would be impeded by this behavior.

Plans to Strengthen Behavior to Achieve my Professional Vision

I intend to navigate my behavioral challenges through consistent practice and the use of evidence-based literature to provide the necessary expertise and knowledge on curbing nonmutual selfless behavior and self-reliability. Practicing daily leadership skills on colleagues by explaining the ‘broader picture’ outcomes of the processes would make me gain directly a transformational change behavior in effecting leadership skills (van Dorssen-Boog et al., 2020). As new evidence is being published, I intend to utilize the evidence in modifying my skills in nursing leadership. Using empirical evidence will improve my leadership behavior (James et al., 2021). My personal vision concerned evidence-based ethical care that would synergize my change-oriented leadership style and achievement of professional goals.

Conclusion

My leadership is change-oriented and aims to influence colleagues and teamwork to achieve common team goals. My vision is to provide evidence-based ethical nursing care through change-oriented leadership. My strengths are positivity, empathy, arranger abilities, inclusivity, and consistency. However, I still lag in my ability to be standalone in decision making and making mutual engagement with team members. Hopefully, the application of evidence-based practice in leadership and the use of the regular practice to overcome these weaknesses would enhance my achievement of the personal professional vision.

References

Bloom, T. J. (2018). Comparison of StrengthsQuest signature themes in student pharmacists and other health care profession students. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 82(1), 6142. https://doi.org/10.5688/ajpe6142 Broome, M., & Marshall, E. S. (2021). Transformational leadership in nursing: From expert clinician to influential leader (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Springer. https://books.google.com/books?id=jkC9DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Brunt, B. A., & Bogdan, B. A. (2021). Nursing Professional Development leadership. In StatPearls [Internet]. StatPearls Publishing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519064/