Reflection Of Personal Development Plan

The author is a clinical sister in an Operating Theatre who aspires to improve in the current role and be able to advance herself to a band seven role. The aim of this assignment is to reflect on the author’s Personal Development Plan(PDP) identified, the need for developing these areas and the plans to achieve the target result. In this essay she will be concentrating on her three PDPs which are leadership style, strategic thinking (seeing a bigger picture), and communication. She will also discuss about how she identified her PDP using leadership self-development tools.

Her first move was to understand her qualities as a leader and then find out the areas to develop. Identifying her own leadership style will help her to understand her strength

On the other hand, ‘Transactional’ leaders are focused on tasks, makes decisions quickly and goal oriented however, they do not identify with shared values of the team (O’Connor and Carlson,2016). Another characteristic of Transformational leaders is, they are, motivational, empowering and inspirational to others to identify and pursue a long-term vision in relation to organisational goals and individual personal development plans (Brewer et al,2016). As leaders they demonstrate democratic approach and gain trust through listening, responding, empowering, empathising and developing relationship with their team(Giltinane,2013). Therefore, one can argue that, transformational leadership is fundamental to nursing, because of its influence on a safety culture, staff and patient satisfaction (Fischer,2016). However, one leadership style by its own is not effective at all times. Leaders should be able to adapt to different leadership trait depending on the situations. Transformational leaders may need to exhibit some transactional leadership skills to perform short term goals within the team in an organisation (Mannix et al,2013). In crisis situations, transactional leadership is the best healthcare leadership model to use. It is a task-focused leadership style. However, in nursing this can lead to a non-holistic approach to patient care (Giltinane,2013). As these are the two-preferred leadership style in healthcare settings, the author found herself in a positive ground in terms of Leadership style. But certainly, she needed to improve her skills by identifying her development needs which in turn will help her to become an efficient