Leadership Interview Paper (CO 1-8) Solution

Leadership Interview Paper

PART ONE

Nursing Leadership Interview Assignment Instructions

Assignment Title: Leadership Interview Paper (CO 1-8)

This assignment takes some time for planning, implementation and submission. It is strongly recommended to plan ahead of time and work on this comprehensive assignment.

Overview:

For this assignment, you will choose a nursing leader to interview. It will require planning ahead, so please give yourself adequate time and don’t wait until the last minute to reach out to your prospective interviewee, as schedules change and life happens for you and the leader you choose to work with. The person that you choose should be a leader at the manager level or higher.

Setting Up the Interview:

Choose a leader from our profession whom you would like to interview. This can be the leadership on your unit/department, leadership from another unit or service line in the organization, or from another organization altogether.

Preparing for and Conducting the Interview

When reaching out to your identified leader to request their help with this assignment, please make sure that your communications are professional in nature. Prepare a list of questions that you would like to have answered over the course of the interview. Some will just naturally be answered over the course of the discussion, but some will need to be asked directly or clarified. It is a courtesy to offer the person you are going to interview a copy of the questions ahead of time. Your questions for your interviewer should focus on leadership qualities that either you or your leader identify.

Interview Questions should provide insight on these eight topics:

1. Leadership Innovation
2. Emotional Competence
3. Crisis Management
4. Spirituality
5. Change and Conflict
6. Leading Teams
7. Coaching and Mentoring
8. Financial Responsibility

Other topics, brought up by the leader may also be good to include in your write up. For example, change and conflict are two distinct concepts. Consider what you will do if your leader answers your question negatively or declines to answer your question (which is their right). Think about how you can engage the leader differently and not let the topic drop. One strategy is “tell me about a time when… (you dealt with a difficult change)”.

Writing the Paper: Leadership Interview Paper

Paper Length:

• Write an 8-10 pages paper (including title page and references). At least 5 scholarly references

besides your text should be used.

• No abstract is required.
• The text should be between 6-8 pages. Please do not exceed the page limit.
• Points will be taken off if the paper is more or less than the specified length.

Content:

• Introduce the leader and why you chose them. Include a URL to a site where they can be seen or are discussed. This can be a staff page in an organization, or a news story, etc.
• The paper should highlight the essence of your leader’s statements and you should use the scholarly literature (both from the text and other appropriate scholarly literature) to underscore or refute your leader’s comments for each section of the paper.
• Make sure the eight topics listed above are addressed. Provide specific examples and references in the scholarly literature that show how this particular leader demonstrates/incorporates/refutes each of these concepts.
• Please do NOT include your interview questions in the body of the paper.

Formatting:

• The paper should adhere to APA 7th Edition guidelines.
• Please use headings which are explained in the manual. Please use headings for each content area you describe. There should be no errors in grammar or spelling.

THE ANSWER FOR PART ONE IS BELOW AND YOU WILL NEED TO USE IT TO ANSWER THE PART TWO OF THE ASSIGNMENT

 

PART TWO

Please come prepared to discuss the following: Leadership Interview Paper

• Who your leader is and why you chose them
• The thing that surprised you the most during your shadow day/interview experience
• Your biggest takeaway from this experience
• Something that you will incorporate into your own leadership practice