Discussion 2: Your Leadership Profile Do you believe you have the traits to be an effective leader? Perhaps you are already in a supervisory role, but as has been discussed previously, appointment does not guarantee leadership skills. How can you evaluate your own leadership skills and behaviors? You can start by analyzing your performance in specific areas of leadership.

Discussion 2: Your Leadership Profile Do you believe you have the traits to be an effective leader? Perhaps you are already in a supervisory role, but as has been discussed previously, appointment does not guarantee leadership skills. How can you evaluate your own leadership skills and behaviors? You can start by analyzing your performance in specific areas of leadership.

In association with the results of the StrengthFinder assessment, you indicated that two characteristics you would like to improve on are your sense of judgment and detachment. A leader’s most fundamental role is making proper judgments along with the ability to make well-informed, wise decisions that generate the desired outcomes. Many things and situations in life depend on proper judgment. As humans, we often find ourselves in different situations with no right or wrong answers. The ability to cope in such cases comes down to an aspect of judgment. The tendency to judge people based on their performance could be the main factor hindering your ability to uphold positive relationships with your colleagues in the professional context. I also find myself doing the same thing as you stated. One of the crucial drivers in exercising proper judgment is reflecting on one’s own set of values, a set of firmly held beliefs and views of what is suitable, right, and sound (Broome & Marshall, 2020). I consider having a better understanding of your values: those that guide you towards pursuing collective interests and those that guide you towards functioning to pursue your interests as essential in improving your sense of judgment.

            Another characteristic that identified you would like to strengthen is the sense of detachment. I view detachment as challenging for individuals to attain and harder for leaders. Professional detachment denotes mastering approaches that assist a leader in distancing themselves from some roles by delegating other duties to other employees (Gottlieb, Gottlieb, & Bitzas, 2021). Detaching yourself from some general functions will allow other employees to enhance their creativity, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills, thus allowing for their professional development.

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References

Broome, M. E., & Marshall, E. (Eds.). (2020). Transformational leadership in nursing. Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1891/9780826135056

Gottlieb, L. N., Gottlieb, B., & Bitzas, V. (2021). Creating empowering conditions for nurses with workplace autonomy and agency: how healthcare leaders could be guided by strengths-based nursing and healthcare leadership (SBNH-L). Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 13,