seems intense: 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.