Write a 3-4 page response to an employment questionnaire requiring a self-evaluation of your leadership and ethical experiences.
Write a 3-4 page response to an employment questionnaire requiring a self-evaluation of your leadership and ethical experiences.
Introduction
An understanding of one’s own approaches to leadership, motivation, collaboration, and ethical situations is important to the evolution of an effective leader. An introspective lens can help emerging leaders better understand and hone these important skills.
Preparation
Review the Western Medical Enterprises Questionnaire (Page 2). Use it to complete this assessment
Assignment is based on the following scenario
Scenario
Imagine that over the past few months you have participated in several organizational projects and met many new people. The opportunities to collaborate and demonstrate your emerging skills as a leader prompted you to think about applying for a new position. After exploring online job postings, you prepared a resume and submitted the application to Western Medical Enterprises. A few days later you received the following email:
“Dear Applicant,
Thank you for your interest in employment at Western Medical Enterprises. We have received your application packet. The next step for all potential employees is to provide a narrative response to the questions in the attached document. Please return your completed document to me by replying to this e-mail.
Once we receive your responses, we will review them and notify you of the next steps.
Good luck!
Sincerely,
- Instructions
Respond to the scenario by completing the Western Medical Enterprises Questionnaire found in the Resources.
Western Medical Enterprises Applicant Questionnaire
Directions: Please provide responses to the two sections below. You are expected to support your assertions, ideas, or opinions with at least two scholarly or professional resources where appropriate using current APA style and formatting.
- Section I: Leadership and Collaboration Experience
Briefly describe an instance where you were required to lead and motivate a team of professionals to collaborate. It does not need to be in a health care setting. If you have not lead a team of professionals before, use a different example.
Next, analyze your approach to the challenge using specific examples. It is not important whether or not your efforts were successful. What is important is the approach you take to appraising your leadership and collaboration decisions and actions. Do the following:
- Analyze your leadership of the project. Consider the following:
- What was the purpose or shared vision of the team?
- The effectiveness of your leadership approach and style. Did you get “buy in” from stakeholders?
- Decision making processes and outcomes? What were your good decisions? What would you have done differently?
- How did you communication your vision, values, decisions, information, et cetera?
- Analyze your approach to fostering collaboration and motivation among stakeholders. Consider:
- How well you facilitated member or participant collaboration and engagement with one another. Did participants communicate effectively?
- Actions you took to motivate people to realize your vision or tactics. Did the team or participants feel motivated and energized by you? Why or why not?
