Assess the development of your healthcare leadership competencies over the course of your MHA program using a STAR Format Competency Rating Table. In addition, write a one-paragraph reflection on your capstone experience, and create three SMART goals for your future healthcare leadership development.
Introduction
Throughout their careers, healthcare leaders must regularly assess their individual competencies and how those competencies align with organizational needs and priorities. Changing laws, regulations, technology, consumer preferences, medical treatment advances, and external environmental shifts can affect the skill sets needed for effective leadership. An accurate self-assessment is the first step in identifying potential gaps and in developing an action plan to close those potential gaps.
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to examine your leadership skills with respect to the NCHL health leadership competencies and assess your progress in developing those skills as you have advanced through your program.
You have been practicing NCHL competencies throughout the program. Now is an ideal time to reflect upon your growth, and to set a few specific action steps for future career development. Examining your growth in each of the healthcare executive competencies is a helpful way to identify behavioral examples of skill execution.
This assessment has three parts:
Part 1: Leadership Self-Assessment
Assess the development of your leadership skills over the course of your MHA program.
Part 2: Reflection
Write a paragraph reflecting on your capstone project and what you learned about your own leadership abilities.
Part 3: Personal Development Plan
Identify measurable action steps for future career development by creating three SMART goals for future healthcare leadership competency development.
Instructions
Part 1: Leadership Self-Assessment
Complete a self-assessment of your health leadership competencies using the STAR Format Competency Rating Table Download STAR Format Competency Rating Table. Instructions for filling in the table are included in the document.
In completing the self-assessment, make sure you do the following:
Assess personal progress toward developing NCHL health leadership competencies.
Compare your baseline competency rating at the start of your program with your current competency rating.
Explain any new insights from your competency assessment.
Describe specific examples of how you have demonstrated NCHL health leadership competencies, with the intent of improving healthcare outcomes.