Leadership Journal: Provision
Journaling provides a valuable tool for recording, reflecting on, and reviewing your learning. This approach provides an opportunity for you to “connect the dots” and observe the relationships between and among activities, interactions, and outcomes.
Practicum Activities Reflection: Provide observations and thoughts on the activities in your practicum during Topics 7-8.
Application of Leadership: Describe how your nurse leader preceptor influences the work environment. Consider how influence protects and values others in the work environment.
Practicum Project Preparation: Describe any potential or actual barriers you have encountered as you prepared for project implementation. If you have not encountered any, what could present a barrier in the future?
Love is not just a feeling but its consistent with actions.Servant leaders show love to others through fulfilling their strengths, values, and inspiring them. Servant leaders also show love by being protective of their people through having safe workplace and appropriately dealing with conflict. Servant leaders use love as an essential value whose main goal is to serve others. Servant leaders use their powers as love to benefit those around them.
For an organization to grow, change is inevitable. You cannot succeed without change. One must be flexible. Leadership styles vary from leader to leader. A good relationship between leaders and employees provides an advantage to implementing change (Nging & Yazdanifard, 2015). Transformational leadership is a leadership model wherein the leader believes in the power of encouraging everyone in the organization to enhance their individuality and contribute based on their passion and lived experiences (Fox, 2019). This type of leader forms connections with employees, invites input and provides support and positive motivation. Transformational leadership looks at each team member and employee and supports positive transformations from within to benefit the good of the whole, sees each person as a leader-in-training, and aims to facilitate and nurture their growth. The transformational leader is interested in how others can grow and transform themselves and the organization by shared and individual priorities, and then they look to align the two.
Servant leadership provides a different approach toward managing and leading change. With this model, managers exist to serve their employees. Leaders believe their interests take a back seat to their employees’ needs, hopes, and goals. A higher level of trust is formed with the employee/boss relationship, and employees feel safe suggesting ideas, pursuing professional development, and having honest conversations. A servant leader leads with an emphasis on listening and support; they treat their employees as heroes and customers.