Nhs leadership academy self assessment tool

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The Leadership Framework

Self assessment tool Leadership in the health and care services is about delivering high quality services to patients by:

· demonstrating personal qualities · working with others · managing services · improving services · setting direction · creating the vision, and · delivering the strategy.

Staff will exhibit a range of leadership behaviours across these seven domains dependent on the context in which they operate. It is essential that all staff are competent in each of the five core leadership domains: demonstrating personal qualities, working with others, managing services, improving services and setting direction. The other two domains, creating the vision and delivering the strategy, focus more on the role and contribution of individual leaders.

To help users understand and apply the Leadership Framework each domain is divided into four elements and each of these elements is further divided into four descriptive statements which describe the behaviours all staff should be able to demonstrate.

The Clinical Leadership Competency Framework (CLCF) and Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MLCF) are also available to specifically provide staff with clinically based examples and learning and development scenarios across the five core domains shared with the Leadership Framework.

Please visit www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/lf to learn more about the framework and how it can be used and applied.

Self assessment tool

This self assessment tool aims to help you manage your own learning and development by allowing you to reflect on which areas of the leadership framework you would like to develop further.

Please note that the information you provide is not stored anywhere on the website. We recommend you download and save this document so that you can refer back to it when reviewing your development plans.

A development module is available to support your leadership development at www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/leadership-development-module

You will also find a personal action plan template starting on page 10.

Leadership Academy

CLCF/MLCF

http://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/lf
http://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/leadership-development-module
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1. Demonstrating Personal Qualities

Effective leadership requires individuals to draw upon their values, strengths and abilities to deliver high standards of service. To do so, they must demonstrate effectiveness in:

• Developing self awareness by being aware of their own values, principles, and assumptions, and by being able to learn from experiences