After completing the leadership self-assessment and bar graph I identified the dominant leadership behaviors included providing direction, leading courageously, championing change, coaching and developing people and acting with integrity. The least used leadership behaviors included fostering teamwork and motivating others.
The first leadership behavior I’m going to review is to provide direction. In order to provide direction to team members the leader must understand the mission and goals of the organization. Leaders must make sure to identify clear job roles with using job titles, responsibilities of duties through job descriptions and the standards of practices through organizational policies offering a written format of how to provide services, and sufficient hands on training with a preceptor. To provide direction on a daily bases managers can use assignment sheets that list all clients organized in a clear manner and list background information, emergency information such as code status and what level of care the client is to receive.
The second leadership behaviors is to lead courageously. In order to lead courageously leaders have to be willing to take a risk. Courageous leaders take on new challenges and encourage team members to give feedback. …show more content…
Covey list seven habits that increase the effectiveness of one’s character. These habits include be productive, begin with the end in mind, part first things first, seek to understand then be understood, think win/win, synergize, sharpen the saw. “Habits 1 through 3 make up the “private victory” - where we go from dependence to independence by taking responsibility for our own lives. Acquiring habits 4 through 6 is our “public victory”: Once independent, we learn to be interdependent, to succeed with other people. The seventh habit makes all the others possible - periodically renewing ourselves in mind body, and spirit.”(Covey,
The first leadership behavior I’m going to review is to provide direction. In order to provide direction to team members the leader must understand the mission and goals of the organization. Leaders must make sure to identify clear job roles with using job titles, responsibilities of duties through job descriptions and the standards of practices through organizational policies offering a written format of how to provide services, and sufficient hands on training with a preceptor. To provide direction on a daily bases managers can use assignment sheets that list all clients organized in a clear manner and list background information, emergency information such as code status and what level of care the client is to receive.
The second leadership behaviors is to lead courageously. In order to lead courageously leaders have to be willing to take a risk. Courageous leaders take on new challenges and encourage team members to give feedback. …show more content…
Covey list seven habits that increase the effectiveness of one’s character. These habits include be productive, begin with the end in mind, part first things first, seek to understand then be understood, think win/win, synergize, sharpen the saw. “Habits 1 through 3 make up the “private victory” - where we go from dependence to independence by taking responsibility for our own lives. Acquiring habits 4 through 6 is our “public victory”: Once independent, we learn to be interdependent, to succeed with other people. The seventh habit makes all the others possible - periodically renewing ourselves in mind body, and spirit.”(Covey,