Personal Leadership Philosophies Example Solution

Leadership is an integral part of nursing practice. Leadership styles vary among nurse leaders in nursing practice. These styles are based on nursing leadership theories. The leader’s core values, professional mission, vision, behavior, and personality are some of the contributors to the leader’s choice of style of leadership. Each style has its own strengths and weaknesses in nursing leadership and management. A leadership philosophy forms a system of beliefs, emotions, and character of the leader that guide the leader’s decision-making and social relations. The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate my leadership philosophy

My Core Values

I complete the Clinton Strengths Insight Guide survey evaluation of personal values and strengths. My core values are positivity, empathy, acknowledgment of human emotions, inclusivity, flexibility and arrangement for maximum productivity, and a belief in just and consistent treatment. I have an enthusiasm to change my environment through positive thinking. I believe in tolerance of differing opinions to make positive outcomes of these differences. I believe that every person’s thinking and personality can produce something positive for the common team’s goal. I fancy incorporating people thinking and emotions into decision-making. Behind human reasoning, some emotions determine their actions and excisions. Empathy allows me to put myself in the other team members’ shoes and understand their reasoning behind the decisions.

Emotional intelligence is one of the core values that I hope to sharpen in the future as a practicing nurse. Sharing the decision in clinical decision-making enhances inclusivity. Brunt & Bogdan (2021) argued that shared decision-making is a more effective way of leadership in nursing practice. Shared decision-making allows more participation and active involvement of the team in making team decisions that every team member will have to own the outcomes. My belief in incorporating inclusive leadership for maximum productivity provides me with a reassurance of achieving transforming the input of each individual into a meaningful team output.

Personal Mission and Vision Statement

My mission in the profession is to provide nursing care that is equitable, timely, just, and patient-centered nursing care through effective team leadership and coordination. I believe that at one time I will be charged with the repressibility to provide nursing leadership direction in decision making at personal and group levels. Under these circumstances, I hope to incorporate my core values. My vision is to provide ethical and evidence-based direct and indirect care to my patients without infringing the patient’s autonomy and cultural beliefs. The current paradigm in nursing care revolves around evidence-based practice and culturally sensitive care. My vision is to ensure that at all times my nursing care doesn’t contradict these two concepts of modern nursing. 

Clifton Strengths Assessment

Clifton Strengths guide by Gallup was been used by various learners to identify and develop leadership skills (Bloom, 2018; Comer et al., 2019). The Clifton Strengths assessment provided me with self-reflection on the personal strengths that would shape my future leadership style and principles. Five themes came out from this assessment: positivity, includer, arranger, consistency, and empathy. The positivity theme manifested my contagious nature to influence my colleagues into thinking positively in all situations and converting these situations into significant personal and group outcomes. To achieve this, I would need the inclusion and arrangement abilities to ensure no bias but the consistent treatment of colleagues. The theme of empathy also reinforces my core values aforementioned. Further analysis showed that these themes are related and would complement my ultimate leadership physiology supporting the transformational ideology in leadership. 

Behaviors to Strengthen

The balance and contrasts between the transactional and transformational basis of the common styles of leadership are still not instilled in me. My short-term goals aim to ensure that colleagues assert their commitment to the common goal. This makes me sometimes my personal goals at the expense of transforming others’ commitment (Carvalho et al., 2019; Broome & Marshall, 2021). This makes my philosophy a nonmutual one. The transformational style requires that the leader and the follower have a mutual relationship (Brunt & Bogdan, 2021; (B