Discussion: Diverse Leadership Styles and Skills

In the Week 8 Discussion, you discussed the implementation of a new product or service, aligned with organizational goals and professional standards, and described the management and leadership competencies that would facilitate successful implementation of this project.

For this Discussion, think again about the new product or service discussed in week 8, now consider a new product or service that you would initiate adoption. Consider the importance of building a team of leaders from across the organization to implement the new product or service you are recommending.

To Prepare

• Think of a new product or service such as the one in the Week 8 Discussion.
• Consider the leaders across the organization you would work with to roll out the product or service. Which leadership styles and skills might you encounter as you work with various individuals?
• What opportunities and challenges may arise as a result of individuals with differing leadership styles and skills working together? How would you work on a team or in a group with those whose style differs from your own?

By Day 3

Post a description of how the leadership styles and skills of others you would work with to roll out the product or service would support, complement, or contrast your own. Describe challenges and opportunities that may arise as a result of working with individuals with differing leadership styles and skills in a team or group setting.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.

Learning Resources

Note: To access this weeks’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2017). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing: Theory and application (9th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

• Review Chapter 2 in week 8 for definitions of leadership styles.

Denker, A. G. (2014). Transformational Leadership in Nursing: A Pilot Nurse Leader Development Program. Retrieved from: http://scholarworks.bellarmine.edu/cgi/viewcontent...

Simons, T., & Leroy, H. (2014). Issues in researching leadership in health care organizations. Leading in Health Care Organizations: Improving Safety, Satisfaction and Financial Performance (Advances in Health Care Management, Volume 14) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 14, 221–234.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Top, M., Akdere, M., & Tarcan, M. (2014). Examining transformational leadership, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and organizational trust in Turkish hospitals: public servants versus private sector employees. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, (ahead–of–print), 1–24.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

van der Kam, N. A., van der Vegt, G. S., Janssen, O., & Stoker, J. I. (2014). Heroic or hubristic? A componential approach to the relationship between perceived transformational leadership and leader–member exchanges. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, (ahead–of–print), 1–16.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Optional Resources

Casida, J., & Parker, J. (2011). Staff nurse perceptions of nurse manager leadership styles and outcomes. Journal of Nursing Management, 19(4), 478–486.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.