Assessment 5
NCHL Leadership Self-Assessment, Reflection, and Personal Development Plan
Instructions: Assess the development of your healthcare leadership competencies over the course of your MHA program using a STAR Format Competency Rating Table. In addition, write a one-paragraph reflection on your capstone experience, and create three SMART goals for your future healthcare leadership development.
Introduction
Throughout their careers, healthcare leaders must regularly assess their individual competencies and how those competencies align with organizational needs and priorities. Changing laws, regulations, technology, consumer preferences, medical treatment advances, and external environmental shifts can affect the skill sets needed for effective leadership. An accurate self-assessment is the first step in identifying potential gaps and in developing an action plan to close those potential gaps.
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to examine your leadership skills with respect to the NCHL health leadership competencies and assess your progress in developing those skills as you have advanced through your program.
Note: Each assessment of your capstone project is built on the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order they are presented.
Assignment Introduction
You have been practicing NCHL competencies throughout the program. Now is an ideal time to reflect upon your growth, and to set a few specific action steps for future career development. Examining your growth in each of the healthcare executive competencies is a helpful way to identify behavioral examples of skill execution.
This assessment has three parts:
Part 1: Leadership Self-Assessment
Assess the development of your leadership skills over the course of your MHA program.
Part 2: Reflection
Write a paragraph reflecting on your capstone project and what you learned about your own leadership abilities.
Part 3: Personal Development Plan
Identify measurable action steps for future career development by creating three SMART goals for future healthcare leadership competency development.
Instructions
Part 1: Leadership Self-Assessment
Complete a self-assessment of your health leadership competencies using the STAR Format Competency Rating Table Download STAR Format Competency Rating Table. Instructions for filling in the table are included in the document.
In completing the self-assessment, make sure you do the following:
- Assess personal progress toward developing NCHL health leadership competencies.
- Compare your baseline competency rating at the start of your program with your current competency rating.
- Explain any new insights from your competency assessment.
- Describe specific examples of how you have demonstrated NCHL health leadership competencies, with the intent of improving healthcare outcomes.
Part 2: Reflection
Write a succinct one-paragraph reflection about your experience completing the capstone project. Include what you learned about your own leadership abilities as you worked on the project.
Describe an example of inspirational team leadership you have experienced. Who provided the leadership? What was inspirational about it? What leadership traits did it demonstrate?
Include your reflection in the space provided toward the bottom of the STAR Format Competency Rating Table Download STAR Format Competency Rating Table.
Part 3: Personal Development Plan
Create three SMART goals for your future development of healthcare leadership competencies. Include at least one SMART goal related to creating an organizational climate that values and supports employees and colleagues in healthcare settings.
You will recall that SMART goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Using these parameters as you create your goals helps ensure that your objectives are attainable within a certain time frame.
Include your SMART goals in the space provided toward the bottom of the STAR Format Competency Rating Table Download STAR Format Competency Rating Table.
Optional Activity
You may find the following suggested activity helpful as you pursue your career goals. This activity is not graded.
Track 1: Meet with your proposal reviewer or supervisor and share your competency growth and development plans. Ask for suggestions for exploring career advancement opportunities.
Track 2: Meet with your proposal reviewer or an attendee at your final data analysis report presentation and share your competency growth and development plans. Ask for suggestions for exploring career advancement opportunities.
Submission Requirements
Submit your completed Assessment 5 STAR Format Competency Rating Table as well as a leadership reflection paragraph and three SMART goals. Include the reflection paragraph and SMART goals in the space provided at the end of the Assessment 5 STAR Format Competency Rating Table.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Execution: Translate strategy to develop and maintain optimal organizational performance in health care settings.
- Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
- Competency 2: People: Create an organizational climate that values and supports employees and colleagues in health care settings.
- Identify SMART goals for future development of healthcare leadership competencies including a goal related to creating an organizational climate that values and supports employees and colleagues.
- Competency 5: Team Development: Develop high performing teams by inspiring individual excellence and leading talent development in healthcare organizations.
- Describe an example of inspirational team leadership that has been experienced.
- Competency 6: Self Leadership: Develop and enhance existing leadership skills through introspective investigation and reflection of personal tendencies, strengths, and weaknesses.
- Assess personal progress toward developing NCHL health leadership competencies.
- Describe specific, personal examples of how one has demonstrated NCHL health leadership competencies, with the intent of improving health care outcomes.
- Reflect on the experience of completing a data analysis project and on what was learned about leadership abilities.
