analysis was a crucial landmark for identifying gaps in the performance of professionals. The report was also based on a balanced
scorecard of the organization that helped the management to achieve a competitive edge to serve the healthcare industry
holistically for making better decisions. The top executives analyzed the SWOT analysis which suggests building and assessing the
leadership skills in nurses and managers to improve the quality a patient safety outcome. The balanced score card also suggest
that the employees must analyze their own skills and improve communication skills to share better ideas freely with each other.
This will help the organization to evaluate the outcomes and meet the future organizational needs.
NURS FPX 5012 Assessment 2 Attempt 1 Personal Leadership Analysis
The Gaps in Leadership Education and Skills and Competencies Required
The previous analysis of the organization and its environment also shows that there is a gap in the nursing leadership skills that
needs to be fulfilled using self-assessment tools which will allow them to use models of leadership development for personal
future career growth and organizational efficiency. For example, in the organization, there is a lack of culture of nursing leadership
training. This shows that healthcare clinicians and nurses lack understanding of benefits of formal trainings that is a barrier to their
career and personal growth and development. They must sough comprehensive leadership development trainings and models to
become more demining in their professional fields (Calzone et al., 2018).
The healthcare management is one sector that is evolving rapidly nowadays. The formal educational and degrees are not yet as
effective for nurses and professionals to develop ample leadership and relationship development skills. The leadership gap is the
disparity in the organization which shows the gap between current leadership skills and actual demands of the organization
(Connor et al., 2018). The most important leadership skills ranked by () for healthcare professionals include leading employees,
resourcefulness, change management, decisiveness, and building and mending relationships. For example, in Hope Medical
Center, currently the executives have found problems with interpersonal relationships among nurses and healthare practitioners
and other staff members. These difficulties in developing good working relationships with others have led to some conflicts.
Moreover, leaders and nurses have also been showing to have difficulties in selecting the right teams and build them to achieve
goals. Moreover, resistance to change and change management is another weak skill that needed to be mended. Moreover,
another leadership gap is lack of skills of professionals to follow up on their promises and completing their jobs according to
company’s objectives.
Not following the leadership development strategies and plans can lead to extreme consequences for the hospital because nurse
lack depth to manage their decisional and think outside the box to delivery their promises. Resistance to change can drastically
bring negative healthcare results and outcomes as nurses need to learn from their mistakes and develop leadership skills as
mentioned above to fill the gaps in their performance to match it with the organization’s expectations. These leadership skills and
competencies are needed extensively in the healthcare industry (Cummings, 2008).
Leadership Self-Assessment
After the analysis of the PEST analysis, the organization must plan a course of action to develop and assess its own leadership
competencies (Van den Bulcke et al., 2018). Due to growing regional competition and the lack of interest of policy makers to focus
on healthcare costs, the whole political scenario indicates that due to inflation rates, the costs are likely to rise in the future which
can be curbed down with effective leadership skills and planning (Ferrier, 2022).
A vital aspect of leadership development is to first identify and know the strengths and shortcomings related to leadership skills
necessary in the complex healthcare organiziatons today. For instance, many researchers and leadership experts suggest exercise
and leadership development plans and models for completion of self-assessment of nurses and other practitioners; these
strategies will help the professionals at Hope Medical Center to gauge how well their staff is performing in terms of leadership.
Since leadership must be encouraged thought the careers of our nurses, the ACHE American College of Healthcare Executives
provide guidelines and tools to help the professional get a good picture of