Personal Leadership Statement
Leadership is one of the most needed qualities and skills in today's world. Because of globalization, more and more diverse interests and cultures are coming into greater contact with one another. To reconcile these differences is the task of leadership (ondinelli & Heffron, 2009). Effective leadership can help society to realize the promises of such interactions while ineffective leadership is more likely to stoke such differences and amass power from the differences within society. This holds true for society as a whole as well as for different institutions within society such as religion, education, business and economy.

My personal leadership approach has been shaped by a variety of factors. My parental upbringing, socialization, inborn traits, formal education, interpersonal relationships, religion and exposure to the media have all contributed to shaping my perceptions of human beings, the relationships they share with one another, their interests and the potential for achieving…...

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References

Abbasi, A.S. (2010). Role of Islamic Leadership in Value-Based Corporate Management. Lambert Academic Publications.

Bennis, W.G., & O'Toole, J. (2009). How Business Schools Lost Their Way. Harvard Business Review, May 2009. Accessed from EBSCO Business Search Primer.

Lussier, R.N., & Achua, C.F. (2010). Leadership: Theory, Application and Skill Development, (4th ed.). Cengage Learning.

Obolensky, N. (2010). Complex Adaptive Leadership: Embracing Paradox and Uncertainty. Gower Publishing Limited.

The chances of success of the survey are even higher if the survey is anonymous and respondents do not fear any repercussions.
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Survey of Influence Tactics

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Also a good tool, but most effective if anonymous to identify who has the power to influence others and how do they use this influence

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Measure of Ingratiating Behavior in Organizational Settings

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This is also related to the power of influence certain individuals might have within the organization

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Identifying Influence Tactics

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The tool is good for the overall interest of the organization and it will resolve conflicts and complaints

eflect on other assignments from the week including the Leader of Choice Carly Fiorina research activity Does her application/description distribute, or hold power? And on…...

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References

Kanellos, M., February 9, 2005, Perspective: Fiorina's fuzzy vision News.com,   last accessed on February 5, 2008http://www.news.com/Fiorinas-fuzzy-vision/2010-1071_3-5569685.html ,

Senge, P., 1994, the Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, Doubleday Publishing

The Organizational Politics Questionnaire, Delta College, Retrieved at   On February 5, 2008http://www.delta.edu/coop/politics.html .

Kanellos, M., February 9, 2005, Perspective: Fiorina's fuzzy vision News.com

Personal Leadership Platform
Henry Fayol, Mary Parker among other scholars in the field of management have described leadership as the act of getting thing done through others, this definition is consistent with the definition given by Carter et al. (2008, 3-4) who described leadership as the process of attaining organizational goals, of which these organizational goals are attained effectively and efficiently through the performance of certain tasks that includes planning, organizing staffing, directing and controlling. From a functional perspective leadership can be defined as the process of planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling organizational resources and activities so that goals can be accomplished effectively and efficiently.

This research paper is based on leadership development from a personal perspective i.e. It aims at enlisting my strengths and weaknesses as a leader and the corrective measures I plan to undertake in order to become the future leader that I would admire.- Besides the positive…...

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Work cited

Avolio, B.J., Gardner, W.L., Walumbwa, F.O., Luthans, F., & May, D. (2004).

Unlocking the mask: A look at the process by which authentic leader's impact follower attitudes and behaviors. The Leadership Quarterly, 15, 801-823.

Carter Louis L., Marshall Goldsmith, and David Ulrich (2008) Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change, Best Practice Institute.

Cromwell S. And Kolb J. (2004), "An examination of work-environment support factors affecting transfer of supervisory skills training to the work place," Human Resource Development Quarterly

Look for positives instead of negatives
3. Develop a social support system

II. Gaining objectivity

Examine my own inherent bias

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Try to understand the source of the bias

Develop behaviors to counter bias

Accept that I will never be completely objective, but endeavor to try to minimize the role of my bias in my leadership decisions.

Part Two: eflective Learning Summary

This reflection helped me become aware that my greatest weaknesses can be found in the very traits that I have always considered my greatest strengths. I have always prided myself on my perfectionist tendencies, and have even felt like people who complained about me being a perfectionist were simply lazy and unable to work up to the standards that I set. Because I always set higher standards for myself than I set for others, I did not believe that my standards were unreasonable. Even while writing this, I have a difficult time describing my perfectionist standards…...

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References

Benson, E., 2003, 'The many faces of perfectionism', Monitor on psychology, [Online] Available at http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/manyfaces.html

Davis, J., 1990, 'News: beyond the myth of objectivity', Media and values, [Online] Available at http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article48.html

Hanson, R., 2007, Enhancing our truth orientation, [Online] Available at  http://hanson.gmu.edu/moretrue.pdf 

Messina, J. And C. Messina, 2007, 'Tools for personal growth: overcoming perfectionism',

My ISTJ nature shows that I am internally focused. In order to improve my interpersonal skills by developing the aforementioned traits, I will need to shift my focus to the external world. I will need to actively consider the view points of my co-workers rather than imposing my own ideas on them (Thompson, 2006).
There are a few different options to me for developing these skills in the next 180 days. I can focus on the functional aspects of these skills. This would be easy to learn because I could utilize my abilities in vision development and planning to keep these skills at the forefront of my mind. The skills could then be learned by treating them as any other technical skill. Another option would place the learning emphasis on the underlying attitude of selflessness and focus on others. As the attitude develops, the functional skills will naturally flow from…...

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Works Cited:

Locke, E. (1999). The Essence of Leadership: The Four Keys to Leading Successfully. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Perce, K. (1998). Project management skills. American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal. Vol. 46, 8, 391-403.

Thompson, S. (2006). How to improve your interpersonal skills for career advancement. Associated Content. Retrieved December 12, 2009 from  http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/100865/how_to_improve_your_interpersonal_skills_pg2.html?cat=31 

Goldsmith, J. & McFall, R. (1975). Development and evaluation of interpersonal skill-training program for psychiatric inpatients. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Vol. 84, 1, 51-58.

Particular institutions that I will target include: Peachford Hospital, the Atlanta ecovery Center, Mountainside Addiction Treatment Center, and St. Jude's ecovery Center. I expect to do at least three longer phone interviews and one face-to-face interview or shadowing day with a professional in my area. This process will unfold over the next three to six months. I have recently renewed my membership with the American College of Healthcare Executives in order to facilitate networking with other healthcare administrators who have followed a similar path.
The last and longest component of my leadership development plan is to pursue a Doctorate in Healthcare Administration. This process will take three years including the dissertation work.

Projected Outcomes

After completing all the steps listed above, I expect to be a consummate healthcare leader, and fully capable of developing a business plan that will launch my dream career. I will be prepared for the challenges of leadership…...

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References

Avolio, B.J. & Yammarino, F.J. (2002) Transformational and Charismatic Leadership: The Road Ahead. San Diego: Emerald.

Riska, E., & Wegar, K. (1993). Gender, Work, and Medicine: Women and the Medical Division of Labour. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Somech, a. (2006). The Effects of Leadership Style and Team Process on Performance and Innovation in Functionally Heterogeneous Teams. Journal of Management, 32(1): 132-157.

Bono, J.E. & Judge, T.A. (2003). Self-Concordance at Work: Towards Understanding the Motivational Effects of Transformational Leaders. Academy of Management Journal, 46(5): 554-571.

Personal Leadership Plan
Personal Leadership Development Plan

The nursing profession is about helping people. The nurse has an innate sense of caring for others and wanting to ease their suffering. This is the central reason why anyone wishes to become a nurse. Currently, a nursing shortage means that nurses can have a steady supply of places to work and currently some of the highest wages of any profession in the country. However, that is not a good reason to become a nurse. At the end of the day, with aching feet and an aching back, the nurse has to have another reason for doing what they do. The following will explore my personal vision and plan for developing my own leadership skills within the nursing profession.

Personal Vision Statement

A vision statement consists of the guiding principles that drive a nurse to pursue their career and endure grueling hours and the stress that can…...

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References

Adams, C. (2010). Dying with Dignity in America: the transformational leadership of Florence Wald. J Prof. Nurs. 26 (2), 125-132.

Lu, H., While, A. & Barnball, K. (2007). Job satisfaction and its related factors: A questionnaire survey of hospital nurses in Mainland China. Int J. Nurs Stud. 44(4), 574-88.

National League of Nursing. (2007). Core Values. Retrieved November 9, 2010 from http://www.nln.org/aboutnln/corevalues.htm

Palfine, S. (2008). The characteristics of nurses' and caregivers' behavior in different clinical settings with special attention to burnout syndrome. Orv Hetil. 2008. 49(31),1463-9.

3). He praises the common soldiers of England for their prowess, and rather than talking to the generals and leaders of the field, almost all of his speeches are addressed to ground-level soldiers. He speaks the language of everyday Englishmen and has a sense of humor and popular appeal, as he notes that the men who fight will remember what their feats "with advantages" (4.3). "For he to-day that sheds his blood with me/
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, / This day shall gentle his condition" (4.3).

Henry may not have a legitimate claim upon the throne through his usurper father, but he does understand the mentality of the English soldier, and provides a unifying force for the soldiers in a way that is unique and unlike other English kings before him. This is greater legitimacy than any title, and more meaningful than the prayers for Richard II…...

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Works Cited

Shakespeare, William. Henry V. December 5, 2009.

 http://shakespeare.mit.edu/henryv/henryv.3.7.html

personal leadership style depends on experience and self-awareness. "To thine own self be true" does not seem like a maxim relevant to leadership, but during our interview, Jane Carson described how personal integrity and honesty directly relates to leading a group. The informational interview conducted for this project focused on Ms. Carson's own leadership experiences and how they helped her develop a personal leadership philosophy. Echoing what the class textbooks outline about the various models of leadership, Ms. Carson described leadership as "an ability to organize and direct others to accomplish a specific goal." The marketing director of a local technology firm, Jane Carson needs to be goal-oriented in order to further her company's assets. But leadership is more than just delegating authority and keeping an eye on the bottom line: Ms. Carson clearly stated the need for personal integrity. Avoiding hypocrisy can be deceptively difficult when in positions…...

Key ethical beliefs and values about one's self and others

I am known as a socially aware leader, one who believes that the needs of society transcend the needs of any one person -- including myself. My idealism is also manifest in my style as a socially aware leader in that I believe the welfare of others, even when that may conflict with my own personal and economic self-interest, is more important. Of course, the greatest test of an idealistic, socially aware leader is when the leader's business or organizational goal conflicts with that of society. How to cope, for example, with working for an organization that causes environmental harm when one is an environmentalist?

Fortunately, I have never had to work with a company that placed me in such an uncomfortable ethical bind. I have tried to select organizations with whom I agree with, in terms of their overall philosophy. Because…...

Introduction
My personal leadership development plan is based my intention to use transformational leadership theory to promote healthcare-eldercare advocacy in my organizational behavior. As Shanks and Buchbinder (2012) show, “leadership development includes both formal and informal efforts” (p. 279). Completing courses online or at a university are formal ways to develop one’s leadership skills, while informal efforts can include anything from mentoring others to coaching and guiding staff members in new tasks or cross-discipline work. No matter the method employed, a personal leadership development plan should utilize a strategy for maximizing leadership effectiveness by implementing an appropriate theoretical support for the plan, recognizing one’s leadership strengths, correcting one’s leadership weaknesses, and identifying action items that will help close gaps between being the leader one is now and being the leader one seeks to become.

Transformational Leadership

Transformational leadership is a style of leadership that can be applied in virtually any discipline or arena…...

Dreher, Diane. The Tao of Personal Leadership. Harper Business, 1996.
After having written several books on applying Taoism to the modern world and to Western society, Diane Dreher offers her interpretation of how Taoist principles can be applied to business and leadership. The book is divided into two parts, corresponding to the binary of yin and yang central to Taoism. Part I is entitled "The Yin of Inner Leadership," and addresses topics like cultivating the qualities conducive for interpersonal and personal success. Part II is entitled "The Yang of Leadership in Action," and includes sections on building community, communication, conflict resolution, and empowerment. Not a traditional text on business and leadership, The Tao of Personal Leadership offers a unique approach towards cultivating an attitude, mindset, and skills that can greatly enhance communication style, conflict resolution, and therefore ultimately, sales objectives.

Because I am familiar with Eastern philosophy, this book did not significantly…...

In order to accomplish this, I will need to in some ways "symbolize the norms" of what others expect (Wren 1995, pg. 188). This does note mean subsuming my identity, but making sure that I am more easily identified with than my mannerisms and extreme intellectualism sometimes allow.
How to ecognize Change

ecognizing change in oneself is supremely difficult, but there are tangible measures in leadership situations that can be used. The best way for me to tell if my expectations have fallen more in line with reality, for instance, would be to see how well and how easily my group accomplishes the set goals. If the goals seem to be creating an inordinate amount of stress and work, then it might be best to reduce expectations again. When it comes to changing the emotive content of my communication, asking a few trusted members of the team for their input on…...

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References

Bass, B. & Riggio, R. (2006) Transformational leadership. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Covey, S. (1991). Principle-centered leadership. New York: Simon & Schuster.

George, W. & Bennis, W. (2003). Authentic leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Goleman, D.; Boyatzis, R.; McKee, A. (2004). Primal leadership. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Leadership
Type a versus Type B Leadership

The ability to guide and direct a group, department or entire organization is predicated on being able to balance task and relationship orientation through transformational leadership. The most effective leaders balance short-term transactional strategies for getting immediate results with transformational leadership skills, intermediating between each using emotional intelligence (EI) to guide their decision making (Ivey, Kline, 2010). The foundational elements of transformational leadership include individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation (Ismail, Mohamed, Sulaiman, Mohamad, Yusuf, 2011) and idealized influence. Transformational leaders are able to use situational awareness and EI to selectively apply each of these approaches at the most opportune time to get the best results (Ivey, Kline, 2010). The intent of this analysis is to evaluate how these techniques can be used for assessing scores from the Type A versus Type B tests taken. I received a score of 38 on Type A and…...

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References

Ismail, A., Mohamed, H.A., Sulaiman, A.Z., Mohamad, M.H., & Yusuf, M.H. (2011). An empirical study of the relationship between transformational leadership, empowerment and organizational commitment. Business and Economic Research Journal, 2(1), 89-108. Retrieved from ProQuest.

Ivey, G.W., & Kline, T.B. (2010). Transformational and active transactional leadership in the Canadian military. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 31(3), 246-262. Retrieved from ProQuest.

Sixth, his service commitment is exceptional, as he has been known to work with many customers to solve problems and help them get to their goals as hospitals and healthcare providers. Seventh, he is exceptionally resourceful and willing to move beyond traditional boundaries to accomplish greater tasks than would have been possible otherwise. Eighth, his focus on rewards and recognition is well-known throughout the entire healthcare industry, as is focus on giving credit to employees who create exceptional insight into how best to solve complex problems facing the company. Ninth, his focus on personal mastery is also evident in how much he invests in personal training for his employees. Tenth, his focus on being organized around priorities is also seen in how he uses the Internet as a means to communicate what is most important to the company and why. These ten core competencies are what differentiate the best…...

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References

Dixon, D.L., & Bilbrey, P.A. (2004). Developing leaders daily. Executive Excellence, 21(6), 18-18.

Fitzgerald, S., & Schutte, N.S. (2010). Increasing transformational leadership through enhancing self-efficacy. The Journal of Management Development, 29(5), 495-505.

The Health Research and Educational Trust (2007). Report of the National Steering Committee on Hospitals and the Public's Health. Retrieved August 24, 2012 from  http://www.hret.org/about/resources/biennial07.pdf 

Mindtools (n.d.) Leadership styles - Using the right one for your situation.