Effective Leadership Self-Assessment

Self – Assessment and Effective Leadership

According to Borkwoski (2016), leadership is a complex process by which a person sets direction, influences others to accomplish a mission, task, or objective, and directs an organization to make it more cohesive and coherent. Leadership can be hard to define because it has different meanings to different people. For example, in a transformational leadership model, leaders set direction and help themselves and others do the right thing to achieve (MindTools, 2015). This means they create an inspiring vision, and then motivate and inspire others to reach that vision (MindTools, 2016). In addition, they manage the delivery of the vision, directly or indirectly, and build their teams to make them stronger (MindTools, 2015).

What is a Leader?

A leader is describing a person that inspires employees with a vision and helps them to cope with change. Many leaders can help people achieve goals and objectives, while managers direct people to accomplish a specific task or skills. In my opinion, leaders and managers are not the same. In my career experience, I have had managers that did not possess leadership skills and wanted to show employees that they were in charge. In health care, I believe that in order to become a manager leadership courses should be mandatory.

For example, leaders help employees cope with change, make people achieve high goals, develop strategies, articulate a direction for producing change.

A leader should possess this type of trait such as, self-confidence, capacity to motivate people, skill in dealing with people, eagerness to accept, intelligence and action-oriented judgement, trustworthiness, flexibility, need for achievement, and task competence (Borkwoski, 2016). However, a manager, determine how to achieve preset goals, handle activities through planning and budgeting, create organizational structure, and direct work of employees (Borkowski,

2016).
Contemporary Leadership Theories
There are four contemporary leadership theories, transformational, charismatic, servant, and collaborative (Borkowski, 2016). After researching, there are two types of theories that I can relate to such as collaborative and servant leadership.
A servant leader values the strength of others, talents, and encourages the use of these strengths for the betterment of an organization (Borkowski, 2016). This leader focuses on a leaders’ development through self-knowledge and awareness. According to Borkowski (2016), servant leaders can build effective hospital-physician relationships. Servant leader qualities include empathy, healing, building community, listening, commitment to the growth of people, and awareness (Borkowski, 2016).
A collaborative leadership encouraged multiple parties to work together towards the implementation of practices and processes (Borkowski, 2016). This type of collaboration promotes multiple understandings between different cultures and integration among stakeholders. Leaders that are unified with the same values and beliefs. According to Borkowski (2016), a collaborative leader should demonstrate confidence, communicate clearly, serve as an active listener, share knowledge and authority, and possess the ability to handle levels of decision-making.
DiSC Self-assessment Review.
According to the DiSC assessment (2016), my DiSC style is D/SC. This means that I have a blend of Dominant, Supportive, and Cautious traits (DiSC, 2016). The dominant traits are probably a little stronger than my supportive or cautious traits (DiSC, 2016). A D/SC style means that I work towards a task-oriented approach, possess both task-oriented and people-oriented traits (DiSC, 2016). In addition, I can both be reserved or outgoing depending on the situation and enjoy solving problems and get results while maintaining quality results and healthy relationships (DiSC, 2016).