Evaluate your ability to apply leadership models in nursing practice for complex healthcare systems. As a nurse leader, you play a crucial role in an organization’s ability to change and adapt. Your capability to translate a leadership theory, specifically transformational leadership theory, into a culture of change is vital.
As a nurse leader, you have various strategies at your disposal to create a culture of change in your organization. In this assessment, you will first develop your own leadership plan and then apply it to a workplace issue.
Assessment Deliverable
Part 1
Create a 700-word minimum personal transformational leadership plan explaining how you would create a culture of change as a nursing leader in your organization.
Include the following in your plan:
o Compare and contrast how transformational leadership differs from transactional leadership.
o Discuss the reasons why applying transformational leadership would be appropriate when changing culture in an organization.
o Identify your transformational leadership traits, including considerations for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
o Describe the importance of interprofessional collaboration in creating a change in organizational culture.
o Define how those traits can be used to develop strategies that can be used within the organization to refine, maintain, or change the organization’s culture.
o Describe the effect the organization’s current culture has on the ability of a leader to drive change.
Part 2
Create an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, with speaker notes, in which you do the following:
o Identify a problem in your workplace that you would like to change, but the current culture does not make it possible.
o Define the current culture and anything that makes implementing change challenging.
o Discuss how you can address that challenge.
o Apply your transformational leadership traits to facilitate the change.
o Identify the barriers to change.
o Determine how you will overcome the barriers and develop contingencies for anticipated resistance.
o Address what you will do to ensure the change’s sustainability.
