Reflections Regarding Overall Leadership Development
The areas of leadership development I mainly want to focus on is fostering professional relationships and facilitating change. At my placement, we are in the process of implementing IUD insertion services and I have attended the team meetings and contributed insightful ideas to the discussions and demonstrated myself as an informal leader. Although I had no authoritative power, I was able to influence colleagues’ decisions as an informal leader (Miner, 2013). By the end of February, my preceptor appointed me as one of the team leaders on the IUD project. In this formal leader role I found myself applying the behavioural theories I have learned in class to my work, striving to embody the democratic …show more content…
Like the facilitators demonstrated with the crossing of the arms, change can be uncomfortable at first and some of us are capable of adapting while others cannot (refer to Appendix C for information on change). According to Stichler (2011), people are able to easily adapt to change if there is adequate support and if the vision is communicated clearly. Changes occur because leaders value innovation and the new system increases efficiency and accuracy in care (Montalvo, 2006). I realized that the electronic documentation system is indeed efficient and beneficial for the clinic. In class, we talked about how a change agent can be either an individual or an experience. I wanted to learn more about change agents, so I did some research. According to Lonadier (2016), change agents are innovative and they look for changes and implement them. Individuals who are change agents have a vision and advocate for the change process (Lonadier, 2016). I found myself exhibiting characteristics of a change agent as I started to have a clear vision about the future of the IUD project. Eventually, I have successfully communicated the vision and motivated my colleagues to action. Passion is also another characteristic of a change agent I have found myself displaying in regards to this project, and I have motivated my colleagues to also be passionate about what we are doing (Lonadier, 2016). My colleagues and I now share a vision as a team and we are able to work together to achieve a common
The areas of leadership development I mainly want to focus on is fostering professional relationships and facilitating change. At my placement, we are in the process of implementing IUD insertion services and I have attended the team meetings and contributed insightful ideas to the discussions and demonstrated myself as an informal leader. Although I had no authoritative power, I was able to influence colleagues’ decisions as an informal leader (Miner, 2013). By the end of February, my preceptor appointed me as one of the team leaders on the IUD project. In this formal leader role I found myself applying the behavioural theories I have learned in class to my work, striving to embody the democratic …show more content…
Like the facilitators demonstrated with the crossing of the arms, change can be uncomfortable at first and some of us are capable of adapting while others cannot (refer to Appendix C for information on change). According to Stichler (2011), people are able to easily adapt to change if there is adequate support and if the vision is communicated clearly. Changes occur because leaders value innovation and the new system increases efficiency and accuracy in care (Montalvo, 2006). I realized that the electronic documentation system is indeed efficient and beneficial for the clinic. In class, we talked about how a change agent can be either an individual or an experience. I wanted to learn more about change agents, so I did some research. According to Lonadier (2016), change agents are innovative and they look for changes and implement them. Individuals who are change agents have a vision and advocate for the change process (Lonadier, 2016). I found myself exhibiting characteristics of a change agent as I started to have a clear vision about the future of the IUD project. Eventually, I have successfully communicated the vision and motivated my colleagues to action. Passion is also another characteristic of a change agent I have found myself displaying in regards to this project, and I have motivated my colleagues to also be passionate about what we are doing (Lonadier, 2016). My colleagues and I now share a vision as a team and we are able to work together to achieve a common