Self-Assessment Format and APA Style
· Use the APA Paper template, linked in the Resources, to draft your self-assessment. An abstract is not required.
· Your self-assessment should be 5–7 double-spaced pages in length, not including the title page and reference page.
· Apply correct APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
· Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
Writing
Note: Because this assessment requires you to develop a leadership self-assessment, you may write using first-person voice. However, it is important for your development as a practitioner-scholar to recognize that writing in the first person is not usually acceptable in academic papers, which are written in the third-person. Consequently, you should always carefully consider departing from this norm.
· Be clear and concise in your writing.
· Express your main points, arguments, and conclusions coherently.
· Use correct grammar and mechanics.
· Be sure to support your claims, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from 4–5 current, scholarly or professional sources.
· Proofread your writing.
Self-Assessment Content
· Analyze your leadership strengths and weaknesses.
. Identify at least one leadership theory or style that you believe best aligns with your own thoughts of what leadership means.
. Use that theory or style in your analysis. Cite your sources.
. Consider potential biases or underlying assumptions in your analysis.
· Explain how specific leadership characteristics you already possess will enable you to guide, educate, inform, and influence others to manage change in the field of health care.
. Consider examples of past successes.
. Consider strategies or best practices that could be applied to improve outcomes.
. Describe at least two additional leadership characteristics you would like to develop to enhance your effectiveness in this area.
· Explain how your leadership characteristics will serve to help you build and maintain collaborative relationships across, and within, disciplines.
. Consider examples of past successes.
. Consider strategies or best practices that could be applied to improve outcomes.
. Describe at least two additional leadership characteristics you would like to develop to enhance your effectiveness in this area.
· Explain how you can best apply the principles of ethical leadership, given your leadership style.
. Identify the main principles of ethical leadership within your field of practice (nursing, health administration, or public health). Cite your sources.
. Consider examples of past successes.
. Consider strategies or best practices that could be applied to improve outcomes.
. Where do you have room to grow in this area?
. How can you prepare yourself to do so?
· Explain why diversity and inclusion are important to employee relations and the provision of safe, high-quality health care.
. Provide an example you have experienced or read about. Cite your sources.
· Explain how your leadership characteristics prepare you to develop and lead a diverse team of employees and serve a diverse community within an ethical framework.
. In what ways can you address issues of diversity and inclusion, both within an organization and in serving the public?
· Explain how research skills and critical thinking guide effective decision making and foster integrity in research and professional practice.
