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Homework: Translating Theory to Practice
This homework aims to 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 homework, you will first develop your own leadership plan and then apply it to a workplace issue.
Task
Part 1
Create a 700 words 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:
Question 1. Compare and contrast how transformational leadership differs from transactional leadership.
Question 2. Discuss the reasons why applying transformational leadership would be appropriate when changing culture in an organization.
Question 3. Identify your transformational leadership traits, including considerations for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Question 4. Describe the importance of interprofessional collaboration in creating a change in organizational culture.
Question 5. 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.
Question 6. Describe the effect the organization's current culture has on the ability of a leader to drive change.
Part II
Create an 8 to 10 slides Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, with speaker notes, in which you do the following:
Question 1. Identify a problem in your workplace that you would like to change, but the current culture does not make it possible.
Question 2. Define the current culture and anything that makes implementing change challenging.
Question 3. Discuss how you can address that challenge.
Question 4. Apply your transformational leadership traits to facilitate the change.
Question 5. Identify the barriers to change.
Question 6. Determine how you will overcome the barriers and develop contingencies for anticipated resistance.
Question 7. Address what you will do to ensure the change's sustainability.