This assessment has two parts.  Click each of the items below to complete this assessment.

Organizational Leadership Development Report

In preparation for this Assessment, select a healthcare organization with which you are very familiar and where you have access to information necessary to complete the Assessment. Identify a specific change that is being implemented now or one that is in the near future (within the year).

Because effective leadership is critical to successfully planning and managing organizational change, you will conduct a confidential inventory and analysis of specific leadership traits and factors that leadership implementing the change possess and use. Effective leadership involves collaborating with individuals but also participating in and facilitating teams. Thus, assessment of team skills needs to be a part of your inventory and analysis.

Create an Organizational Leadership Development Report (4–6 pages) as follows:

· Observe the leadership team implementing the change in your chosen organization, and analyze their actions and behaviors for leadership traits that promote success in effecting change in the organization. List these traits, and explain your analysis process.

· Evaluate leadership traits and factors that could contribute to leading high performing teams.

· Evaluate leadership traits that could promote a culture for creativity and innovation in the workplace. Discuss whether these traits are exhibited by any of the leaders implementing the change in your chosen organization. Explain how you assessed ability to be creative and innovative. Compare how these traits differ from and/or the same as those of classical leadership styles.

· Recommend specific strategies the leaders could apply for working successfully with teams and effecting change within the organization.