Transformational leadership strengths and beneficial future applications

Transformational Leadership

LeAnn Nitz, RN

According to Strength Finder 2.0, my personal leadership strengths are the following: harmony, restorative, competition, focus, and woo. The strengths will be discussed in detail and the way they pertain specifically to my personality in different aspects of my life in reference to the strength finder literature. Three different articles were researched and discussed regarding transformational leadership and how it relates to the literature. A comparison was conducted on my own strengths involving transformational leadership. A description will be explained involving how my leadership style has/or may evolve as I further my education in this master's degree program.

My Personal Strengths

Harmony

Harmony describes people who are team-minded; dislike conflict and work towards collaboration. These kind of individuals are friendly, peace loving, and, generally, popular and altruistic. I am well liked in the hospital that I work in, seeking to understand all and be friendly to all. I am, generally, flexible and easy to work with flexible being emphatic and treating others with respect. I believe that harmony is an important and valuable trait, especially for working in a people-dealing organization and particularly when working with others. Focusing on others, in this case the patient is the trademark of a professional nurse.

Specific examples of harmony are the following: I set life goals and think ahead to where I want to be in x amount of year's time, accordingly placing order and harmony in my life. Working towards these goals places order in my life. In terms of order / harmony with others, I seek to resolve conflicts as soon as they occur and to bridge hostility or misunderstanding with negotiation and problem-solving techniques. Giving an example: I work day shifts and one day in particular I was extremely busy and unable to start an intravenous catheter that needed to be changed so I left in report for the next shift to change the intravenous catheter. The nurse was upset, but after I explained my reason for having to delegate the task, she understood my reasoning. Similarly, I was once told that a certain nurse was gay. Disliking gossip, I simply changed the subject about something involving work. In this way, I attempt to bring harmony to the workplace.

I also bring harmony to patients. Here is an example: One day I had a woman who came in with a heart attack and she was going to go down for a cardiac catheterization procedure. I comforted her and explained the procedure in depth and asked her if she had any concerns that she wished to share with me. The patient ended up being appreciative for my time and patience. I consider harmony to be part and parcel of being a registered nurse. We are instinctively supposed to be caring and comforting to our patients although many people are not.