Professional Context

To remain relevant, health care leaders must regularly assess individual competencies relative to organizational strategy and mutual fit. Changing laws, regulations, technology, consumer preferences, medical treatment advances, and external environmental shifts can affect the skill sets needed for an effective leadership. An accurate self-assessment is the first step in the identification of potential gaps. The next step involves the development of an action plan to close those gaps. This process is consistent throughout the career of any health care leader.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:

• Competency 1: Transformation: Facilitate a change process that effectively involves patients, communities, and professionals in the improvement and delivery of health care and wellness.
  • Assess your progress toward developing NCHL health leadership competencies.
  • Analyze your health care leadership competencies.
• Competency 2: Execution: Translate strategy to develop and maintain optimal organizational performance in health care settings.
  • Evaluate the outcomes of demonstrated health leadership that illustrate NCHL competencies.
• Competency 3: People: Create an organizational climate that values and supports employees and colleagues in health care settings.
  • Describe specific, personal examples of NCHL health leadership competency, with the intent of improving health care outcomes.

Instructions

Complete a self-assessment of your health care leadership competencies. Use the STAR Format Competency Rating Table linked in the Resources to record your assessment. Instructions for filling in the table are included in the document.

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your self-assessment addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Health Care Leadership Self-Assessment Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.

• Assess your progress toward developing NCHL health leadership competencies.
  • Review the NCHL competency model. (Note: There are 26 total competencies listed in the NHCL Competency Model. You will need to assess 19 of the 26 NHCL competencies, as they are listed in the STAR Format Competency Rating Table).
  • Compare your baseline competency rating at the start of your program with your current competency rating.
  • Provide examples of demonstrated leadership that support your assessment.
• Describe specific, personal examples of NCHL health leadership competency, with the intent of improving health care outcomes.
  • Provide the current and relevant examples of how you have demonstrated these skills in the past, preferably in the health care and human services industry.
  • If you do not have experience in health care or human services, consider how you may have demonstrated these skills in a different industry or setting, a previous job, volunteer work, or other courses here at Capella. For example,
    • Perhaps, when you assumed a role in a strategic marketing team for a client organization, you demonstrated analytical thinking, strategic orientation, and organizational awareness.
    • Perhaps you demonstrated an information seeking attitude and self-confidence during a health policy team debate on HIPAA.
    • Perhaps, while conducting a health care quality cost-benefit analysis, you demonstrated financial skills, performance measurement, and human resource management.
• Evaluate the outcomes of demonstrated health leadership that illustrate NCHL competencies.
  • Reflect upon personal, community, volunteer, academic teamwork, and workplace experience in which you have demonstrated each competency.
  • If asked, how would you justify your evaluation?
• Analyze your health care leadership competencies.
  • Reflect upon your baseline and current competency levels.
  • Explain any new insights from your competency assessment.
  • Based on this assessment, what career development steps might you take in the future?