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
•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. B
•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.
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