Leadership
Discuss about the Relationship Between Transformational Leadership.
The following study is a reflective study that has focused on the reflection of the leadership skills and a situation where leadership skills were applied. The report is a reflection of a certain situation where I experienced my own leadership skills during a solution to a critical situation. The report has highlighted Gibbs Reflective cycle to formulate the results. The following report has been a great example of reflective leadership skills that was displayed by me in a tough situation. The report provides the readers with my experience, definition of leadership and introduces with some of the main traits of my personal leadership style.
Leadership can be defined as the art of motivating a particular group of people to act towards on achieving a common set of goal (Veronesi Kirkpatrick and Altanlar 2015). The following definition has the capability to inspire the others and also make others to follow the same. Effective Leadership is totally based upon different ideas that can be both original as well as borrowed. However these ideas can only be implemented in the correct way if the leader is capable of leading the others to that particular way which ensures huge success. The leader is termed as the inspiration and director of different types of actions and tasks that are undertaken (Kumar 2016). The particular person has the combination or a blend of both personality and leadership skills and can easily convince the other members of the group to follow him. Personally I believe the leader is the one who has the capability to show light at the end of the dark tunnel. He can usher in a new sense and meaning of life to the people who falls under his group. I am a Doctor in one of the most renowned Hospitals of Australia. I believe that being in such an established and a reputed institution I have some moral duties towards the society as a whole. As every other professional person I consider myself to be an able leader in my own background.
The modern times has seen the rise in the issue of quality health care among the people of the country. There has been increasing emphasize on the demand for quality health care given the increase in the demand for more complex and complicated diseases (Boamah et al. 2017). I consider myself to be quite lucky to be in this noble profession as because I get the scope to make some necessary contribution in saving people’s lives and taking the challenge of fighting against totally new and unknown diseases. My leadership aims are to promote quality health care to the people of the country. Though my scope is limited within the hospital, I hope to put an impact on the other people by means of my dynamic leadership abilities. Some of the main characteristics of my own leadership styles are quality, power and control, innovation and belief. Quality helps me to focus more on improvement, getting all the things right, making all the different things as perfect they can be and most importantly I always abide by all the different ethical considerations while treating my patients with utmost care and providing them one of the best health care facilities, that helps in the complete recovery of an ill person. The power to deal with the different problems or confrontations both in my professional and personal space is also one of my most notable achievements and truly deserves to be one of the characteristics of my leadership style. Last but not the least my capability to move out of the traditional way of treatment and innovating different new ideas and teaching methods for the hospital forms an important part of the leadership style. Therefore I am basically a leader with a vision set for the future and having a cool and composed mind to deal with any forms of complexities and challenges that may threaten my leadership traits.
Theory related to leadership
Gibbs Reflective Cycle (1988) is a particular tool that is used by a multiple number of users starting from health professionals, education workers and the persons who are already in reputed leadership positions (Eisenberg Gibbs and Erhardt 2016). The purpose of the following model is to assist the different practitioners in the reflection that contributes to the continuous personal development. The following process helps to ensure that continuous learning and improvement in the role of the following people. The main idea of the following study is to reflect on a particular situation that covers all the aspects of the leadership theories (Reid 2017).
The following incident that is being considered by me happened the last year. At that particular time I was just a few months old in my institution. The team in which I worked received a request for the duplex carotid scan of the person who has been admitted to the hospital due to a large stroke. After reaching the hospital the other doctors who were immediately called upon to look after the patient and the checking completed with issues of breathing problems and a significant visit of Aphasia. On the other hand the time when I went her to perform the scan we noticed that there was minimum sedation and there was also assistance for the future. Before the implication of the event I was quite aware that the nurse visited the different sites of the hospital and made them understand the different areas and have a proper mapping in place to get a proper idea and get a proper result of the tests. On the very day of the operation one of the nurses came inside the OT with two members from the family of the patient and showed them the ITU which has been a long standing protocol of the hospital which aims to calm down the tensions and worries of the people from the patient’s family regarding admission in the ITU. The nurse on that day was performing her role as usual and started off with explaining the machines and the roles that they are performing. She also took a glance at the notes of the doctor and informed the members that the main reason for the admission of the patient has been a brain stroke. However the nurse failed to observe that the patient was already awake and that he was quite dejected and distressed.
Personal Development Areas
I being present at that particular moment was quick to intervene in the following situation and managed the situation efficiently. I was on a routine checkup of the other patients while the incident happened and thus I immediately interpreted the Nurse and assured the patient and the members off his family that it was supposed to be stroke but results claims that it did not attained that much seriousness. It was just a mild cardiac problem which could have resulted in some bad outcomes until the timely intervention of the members of his family. The timely intervention from my part was enough to instill a sense of confidence among the patient and his family members. The following intervention was quickly taken into confidence by them as because they trusted the doctor more in such cases than the nurse. This also helped the patient to attain a speedy recovery.
The most important factor in this particular incident was the power of my intervention and my quick response to amend the crisis situation. The following situation if not controlled could have damaged the reputation of my organization and also led to a bad state of health for the patient. However I should have acted faster and should not have let the situation happened at all. The time when the members of the family were brought in by the nurse I should have taken up the responsibility to make the members understand every specific detail and should have given a diplomatic answer to their queries on patient health and reason for admission. The diplomatic answer should have been such that it could have satisfied both the patient as well as the members of the family (Kumar 2016). Thus this incident have been a new lesson for me as it taught me to act swiftly before it becomes too late, though I was able to convince the patient and the members of his family on the reasons for actually admitting in ITU quite tactically, a slight delay from my part could have created havoc.
My role was to examine the patient and go through the documents of the scan. I was supposed to say whether the patient suffered from carotid disease or not. The results of the scan answered in a diplomatic way must be the best solution for addressing such complex issues and the nurse or any other employee or doctor must not take the help of any other type of ways to address such situation. Thus from the personal as well as the professional front it is my duty to act swiftly in any cases and make sure about the different kinds of the situations that may be faced in hospital. The failure of the people in the hospital to act as a team can be addressed by the Gibb’s Model of Leadership where group cohesiveness can be maintained only by an able and strong leader (McCleskey 2015). My personal development plan thus must have some special characteristics that will help me to outclass the other persons in my organization and transform myself into an able and sound leader. I must transform myself in such a way that I am able to predict and interpret in situations which may lead to conflicts of interests. The personal development plan will depend on a particular vision. My vision will lead me to my successful career. As mentioned earlier my vision is to be a successful doctor in my life and contribute something to the society. Apart from this I have also plans to contribute something for the organization I work for. My leadership skills, though strong and determined still lacks the necessary cutting edge to attract people. Therefore I need to be more determined and focused on my job which ultimately will help me gain a certain degree of respect from the other professionals of the Hospital.
Apart from this the method of leadership style must be SMART in nature. Leadership aims must be measurable and realistic in nature that will help me to be one of the best in the organization. I should also make it a point to set some dedicated action steps in the personal leadership development plan to make myself more committed to my aims of becoming a sound and able leader. Thus I have to shed off my initial reluctance and be super active in my approach to be the best in the business.
Conclusion on leadership
I having witnessed the distress caused to both the members of the patients as well as the patient himself must be aware of interpreting such situations at the earliest and avoid the happening of any such different situation. The experience that I gained will certainly help me in the future to avoid such critical situations. This will be helping me to be more confident and face any complex situations easily and effectively. I will have to formulate a proper action plan for the future to make myself more confident on my future. I will have to continue to undertake reflective practice by using the model proposed by Gibbs (1988) and will aim to become more confident in protecting the confidentiality particularly in some situations which makes me apply my clinical skills. Thus the situation that has been provided in the following case reflects on the critical leadership theory and skills that are needed to be one of the best leaders in the organization.
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