Leadership

Leaders help themselves and others to do the right things. They set direction, build an inspiring vision, and create something new. Leadership is about mapping out where you need to go to “win” as a team or as an organization; and it is dynamic, exciting, and inspiring in nature. Think of a time when you felt powerful and a time when you felt powerless when someone said or did something. How did you feel and or react is important as we learn the process of leadership and utilize the experiences to help us grow as leaders. Explain what the person said or did in each of the following situations.

Tasks:

In a minimum of 200 words, post your responses to the following to the Discussion Area:

• How did being powerful or powerless effect your emotional state, your morale, and your performance? Determine the implications for leaders of making people feel powerful or powerless.
• Do you agree or disagree with this statement “We become powerful when we give our own power away?” Give a few examples.
• How can leaders create an environment of trust and facilitate relationships among people in a work team? What can leaders do to show that they can be trustworthy? What can they do to demonstrate that they trust others?

A competency model is a set of knowledge, skills, behaviors, or attributes that defines what is needed by a person to be effective in a particular leadership position. Search for a minimum of three scholarly sources on competency models and develop a competency model for a particular leadership position, such as a healthcare organization’s CEO, department director, service line director, etc.

Provide an overview of your competency model.

• List 3-to-5 specific skills, abilities, behaviors, attitudes, and/or knowledge areas you believe are important for success in the position. Clearly define and provide examples of each.
• Illustrate how you would go about evaluating leaders in a specific leadership position using your model.
• Discuss how your model of leadership assists in the development of leaders.
• Discuss how your model would help to build trust and accountability.
• Identify in your model how you would promote diversity.