Leadership in Health Service Management

Running head: LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH SERVICE MANAGEMENT
LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH SERVICE MANAGEMENT
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author note:

1LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH SERVICE MANAGEMENT
As per Monteiro, Musten and Compson (2015), “Reflection is a window through
which the practitioner can view and focus self within the context of his or her own lived
experiences in the ways that help them confront, understand as well as work towards
resolving the contradictions within her practice between what is desirable and actual
practice.” In this paper I am going to reflect on my personal development in my course
duration and throughout the semester. I shall be exploring and reflecting on some of the
episodes of practice, which had happen during that period. With the same, I shall also be
discussing on my leadership role, duties, delegation and supervision to others while I
managed the minor areas during the course. I shall be reviewing on the responses to the
leadership activity and my definition from Topic 1 and would further discuss how my ideas
have changed or been reinforced over the semester. Moreover, I shall also be reflecting on
what I have learned about leadership through the subject that is of benefit to me and my
organisation at the same time. Also, I shall also be elaborating my viewpoint on the
implication that my studies of leadership have for me in the future and what more do I need
to learn and do. Lastly, I shall be shedding light on the ways in which I am going to develop
my own leadership skills and knowledge and determine my developmental opportunities. In
short, I shall be reflecting about leadership that I studied during the semester with the help of
Gibbs reflective cycle model.
Gibbs Reflective Model
Gibbs reflective model is one of the very popular model for reflecting one’s
experience. It comprise of a total of six stages and that consists of description, feelings,
evaluation, and analysis, conclusion and action plan (Bannigan & Moores, 2015). In this
paper I am using this model for reflecting on my own experience of the leadership course.
Description

2LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH SERVICE MANAGEMENT
During my course, I undertook a group activity section as one of the parts of my
learning development. It was defined as EBL or Enquiry based learning. The group had a
total of 5 members for working together as a part of the team on a particular task given by our
professor. My group was asked to work on a case study for working together as a team for
producing a piece of presentation in order to present our data and findings. Based on my own
understanding, I had identify a group as a collective comprising of more than two people
acting interdependently on one another along with excellent skills of communication,
different knowledge and interact with one another despite of the shared responsibilities. To
this end, I thought of my EBL group as a group that is task focused because the individuals in
my group had a much delegated task for carrying out. My EBL group was chosen casually for
working together as well as to share the responsibilities individually and this means that in
order to be able to produce this presentation we were required to communicate more often
with one another by building a very significant bonding and relationship with the other
members of the group. However, in the group of 5 members, I was chosen as the leader and
was asked to give direction and monitor each and everything by ensuring that everything is
moving smoothly and correctly. Earlier I used to think that leadership is all about leading a
team. But, working with a team has made me realised that leadership is much more than that.
Once one of my team members was not well and that is why he was not able to do the task
that he was appointed with. Our deadline was near and all the other members were busy
doing their own tasks. Hence, I chose to make up his work by doing that myself. After all, we
are a group, a team. We must be helping each other in order to achieve our goal. Overall, I
enjoyed the very experience and felt a great deal of satisfaction when my team was applauded
for doing the task effectively and that too within the deadline.
Feelings