Evaluate your personal approach to health care leadership. • Identify the leadership and emotional intelligence characteristics you already possess. • Analyze your strengths and limitations (areas for development). • Analyze your ability to apply emotional intelligence in your personal approach to health care leadership. • Compare your leadership characteristics with a predominant leadership style and its application to professional practice. • Assess other leadership styles you might integrate into your skills repertoire to enhance your effectiveness as a leader and manage change in health care. • Explain how your personal approach to health care leadership facilitates interprofessional relationships, community engagement, and change management. • Consider interprofessional relationships with staff, community agencies, organizations, and other stakeholders. • Identify your strengths and weaknesses related to interprofessional relationships, community engagement, and change management. • Consider how emotional intelligence could facilitate interprofessional relationships, community engagement, and change management. • Evaluate best practices for interprofessional communications, and compare your communication skills and attributes to those best practices. • Explain how professional ethical leadership principles and/or professional codes of ethics can be applied to professional practice. • Identify the relevant professional ethical leadership principles for your discipline (public health, health administration, or nursing). • Evaluate best practices for developing an ethical culture in the workplace. • Explain how health care leaders can address diversity and inclusion. • What do diversity and inclusion mean to you within the context of population health as a leader in the field? • Explain the importance of diversity and inclusion to effective leadership. For example, cultivating good employee and community relations. o How does an effective leader develop a diverse and inclusive workplace (strategies, best practices)? o How do diversity and inclusion contribute to health care quality and service to the community? o What best practices would you recommend to address issues of diversity and inclusion? Explain how scholar-practitioners contribute to leadership and professional development in the field of health care. o Define scholar-practitioner, in your own words. o Explain the importance of critical thinking to scholar-practitioners. o Evaluate the influence of scholar-practitioners on health care leadership and professional development. o Explain the importance of scholar-practitioners to professional practice. Consider their value in: Expanding the knowledge base. Applying new and existing knowledge, research, and scholarship to solve real-world problems. Improving health care quality and safety.
