Reflect on your personal and professional ( network operations administrator at managed care organization working with health care providers and health systems) experiences and what you have learned in the Healthcare Administration program; then capture how you view yourself as a leader. Describe your leadership traits, behaviors, and skills. What aspects of your leadership character, behaviors, and skills would you like to improve?

Suggested Readings:

AHA (2004). Strategies for Leadership Does your hospital reflect the community it serves? Retrieved from http://www.aha.org/content/00-10/diversitytool.pdf

Al-Sawai, A. (2013, July); Leadership of Healthcare Professionals: Where Do We Stand? Oman Medical Journal. 28(4): 285–287. doi: 10.5001/omj.2013.79. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC37252…

B.E. Smith (n.d.). Articles discussing the latest industry information, challenges and trends. Retrieved from https://www.besmith.com/thought-leadership/article…

Changing Minds (n.d.). Management vs. Leadership. Retrieved from http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/articles/manager_leader.htm.

Henley, W.E. (ca. 1861). Invictus. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/51642.

Institute for Diversity (2015). Welcome to the Institute for Diversity. Retrieved from http://www.diversityconnection.org/

Kocolowski, M.D. (2010). Shared Leadership: Is it Time for a Change? Emerging Leadership Journeys, Vol. 3 Iss. 1, pp. 22-32.

Komives, S, Lucas, N., & McMahon, T. (1998). The Relational Model. Exploring Leadership for College Students What Want to Make A Difference. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (68-72). Retrieved from https://www.uta.edu/leadership/_downloads/The-Rela…

Leggat, S.G. (2007). Effective healthcare teams require effective team members: defining teamwork competencies. BMC Health Services Research, 7(17), DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-17. Retrieved from http://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6963-7-17.

Lindsey, J.S., & Mitchell, J.W. (2012). Tomorrow’s Top Healthcare Leaders: 5 Qualities of the Healthcare Leader of the Future. Becker’s Hospital Review. Retrieved from http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/tomorrows-top-healthcare-leaders-5-qualities-of-the-healthcare-leader-of-the-future.html.

Lippa, J., Claude Pinnock, C., & Aisenbrey., J. (2015, December 3). What Health Care Leaders Need to Do to Improve Value for Patients. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-health-care-leaders-need-to-do-to-improve-value-for-patients.

Llopis, G. (2014, June 7). Healthcare Industry Must Reinvent Itself Using Leadership Techniques from Business World. Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/glennllopis/2014/06/07/healthcare-industry-must-reinvent-itself-using-leadership-techniques-from-business-world/#4f03fa493526.

Merrild, P. (2015, February 6). The Biggest U.S. Health Care Challenges Are Management Challenges. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2015/02/the-biggest-u-s-health-care-challenges-are-management-challenges.

MindTools (2016). Fiedler's Contingency Model: Matching Leadership Style to a Situation. Retrieved from https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/fiedler.ht…

Morrison, N. (2013, December 21). Two Heads Are Better Than One: A Model Of Shared Leadership. Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorrison/2013/12/2…

Murray, A., (n.d.). What is the Difference Between Management and Leadership? Wall Street Journal. Adapted from The Wall Street Journal Guide to Management by Alan Murray, published by Harper Business). Retrieved from http://guides.wsj.com/management/developing-a-leadership-style/what-is-the-difference-between-management-and-leadership/.

National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs (2006). The Relational Leadership Model. Retrieved from https://nclp.umd.edu/include/pdfs/Exploring%20Leadership%20II%20-%20Chapter%203.pdf

Nelson, J. (2016). Do What’s Right, Not What’s Easy. Retrieved from http://www.coachjudynelson.com/do-whats-right-not-whats-easy/.

Peretomode. O. (2012, Sep-Oct). Situational and Contingency Theories Of Leadership: Are They The Same? IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM). Volume 4, Issue 3 PP 13-17

Rice, T.R. (2016, February 13). Changing nature of healthcare leadership demands new vision, empowerment culture. Modern Healthcare. Retrieved from http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160213/MAGAZINE/302139978.

Stockdale, J.B. (1993) Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Speech). Retrieved from http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/978-0-8179-3692-1_1.pdf.

Transformational Leadership (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.langston.edu/sites/default/files/basic-content-files/TransformationalLeadership.pdf.

Uhl-Bien, M. (2006). Relational Leadership Theory: Exploring the social processes of leadership and organizing. Leadership Institute Faculty Publications.

Uhl-Bien, M. (2012). Complexity Leadership in Healthcare Organizations. Leadership Institute Faculty Publications. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska

Uhl-Bien, M., Marion, R., & McKelvey, B. (2007). Complexity Leadership Theory: Shifting leadership from the industrial age to the knowledge era. Leadership Institute Faculty Publications. Paper 18. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/leadershipfacpub/18