Assessment Tool for Individual Leadership Development
Assessment Tool for Individual Leadership Development
Review the assessment tools for individual leadership development (link provided within the topics in this lesson). Based upon your knowledge of the leadership skills needed in the long-term care industry, select ONE assessment tool and complete your individual assessment. Score the tool and review the findings.
1. For your first post, identify the leadership assessment tool you chose, explain why you chose it, and discuss your results.
• Based upon the results, list your individual goals for professional development as a leader.
2. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ initial posts, providing feedback on their professional leadership goals and consideration of the assessment tools they selected to complete.
Student 1:
Hello Class,
For this discussion I selected the Effective Empowerment and Delegation quiz. My results were in line with the skills that I need for my chosen career, but not necessarily the best for a long term care setting. The test identified modeling the behavior that I want to see, providing information and resources, and delegating as my strengths. I think that these skills are very important both to long term care and my actual career. As a leader you always want to model best practices, in long term care that would mean interacting with residents and staff in a professional and warm manner. Making sure that your staff has all of the knowledge and resources to succeed is key to quality care.
Where the test identified that I needed work was in arousing positive emotions and creating confidence. As someone who is still fairly new to a corporate leadership position these are definitely things that I need to work on. I think that I am very good at recognizing small successes when someone is training, but slack off on regular reminders that they are doing a good job. In my current position, I am focusing on helping my team understand my thought processes for prioritizing work so that they can make good decisions even when I’m not there.
I can see how in a field that is much more emotionally charged like long term care, these frequent confidence boosters would be more important to staff morale.
