Nursing Leadership: FIRO-B Analysis, Self-Assessment, and SMART Goals

This report examines nursing leadership through the lens of the FIRO-B instrument and a self-assessment test. The analysis reveals the student's strengths in inclusion, highlighting a preference for social interaction and active participation in group activities, yet shows average emotional intelligence. In terms of control, the student demonstrates an ability to influence and direct others but struggles with respecting authority and receiving negative feedback. The affection trait indicates a medium level of warmth towards others. The report also includes a SMART goal aimed at improving communication skills, particularly non-verbal aspects, to enhance interpersonal relationships, emotional intelligence, and group participation. The goal involves a three-month soft skill training program focusing on non-verbal communication, aiming to improve mental discipline and process orientation.

Running head: NURSING LEADERSHIP
Nursing Leadership
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
FIRO-B instrument is known as Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation
Behaviour Assessment. It helps the individuals to understand their own behaviour or
behavioural pattern of others. This instrument provides an insight of the interpersonal needs
of an individual and thus helping to modify the workplace interactions. There are different
types of FIRO-B framework that are available online like profile report, interpretive report
for organizations and personal leadership report. The following assignment aims to illustrate
my personal strength and weakness as evidence from the FIRO-B instrument of leadership
report and leadership self-assessment test (LST). The skills were accessed and given separate
scores.
Inclusion
Based on expressed inclusion, the tool highlighted that I love to include others in
group-based activities and also take active initiates in extending effective interaction with
others. In the wanted inclusion category, the tool stated that personally I also love to get
included in the group based activities and I also loved to get noticed. Thus overall it can be
said that I have a strong preference towards social interaction and taking part in the social
activities. The main traits that are covered under inclusion include belonging, recognition,
involvement, participation and distinction. In reference to the traits associated with the
inclusion, it can be said that I score average in the level of emotional intelligence as I am
capable to and willing to work with others under socially active atmosphere. The score of
emotional intelligence as reflected in the LST is 27 and thus highlighting my skill of
understanding the emotion of others.

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Control
In the trait of control, it can be seen that I can control and influence others in the score
of 7 out of 10 and also loves to take responsibility of motivating and directing others.
However, under the wanted control, I secured 3 out of 10. This showed that are am only
comfortable in certain well-defined situations and require clear instructions in order to
amalgamate with other situations. In other words it can be said that I am not comfortable in
respecting others' authority or maintaining the proper hierarchical structure. I have issues in
anger manager management and following or listening to negative feedbacks from others.
The main traits of control include power, authority, influence, responsibility and
consistency. The high expressed score in the control level helped me to excel in the
conceptual thinking (score of LST: 24). Thus I can say that I have competency of conceiving
and simultaneous selecting strategies and innovative ideas that are helpful for the
organization. However, poor score on in the "wanted control" highlight that I am poor in
systems thinking. But my System thinking score as per the LST is average (25). This
signifies that I face certain hurdle in connecting process and events in a system and thus face
problem in bringing balance in the organization. Poor score also reflects lack of proper
mental discipline and process orientation. The trait also shows that I lack trusted influence.
But my LST showed that my building trust/enabling other score is highest (score 30). Thus
interpretation of both the test is contradictory. Overall I can say that I am good in building
trust but I scoreless in trusting others and this is the reason why I fail to work under the
instructions of others.
Affection
The expressed score of affection is 5 showing that I have medium level of affection
toward others and my wanted score (2/10) of affection is also poor showing that I have little

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need for others in order to act warmly or I need little encouragement. The main trait of
affection is personal ties, sensitivity, openness and support. From my above trait, I can say
my overall emotional intelligence in average. It coincided with the analysis extracted from
the “inclusion trait”. This is because; I fail to act warmly towards others at times. But it has a
good side too, it shows that I need little encouragement from others. This shows that I am
self-motivated and thus helping me to score high in the ground of directions. This means that
I have my own self-direction and have the ability of understand the job situation in order to
function as per the expectations and this goes in accordance with my focused drive score of
LST (score 27).
SMART Goal
I think in order to increase the level of skill in participation in the group based
activities and obeying the instructions of other, it is important to refine the effective
communication skills or interpersonal communication skills. Effective communication skills
will help me to indulge in therapeutic relationship with the other people while excelling on
the emotional intelligence, trust-building and system thinking. The development of the
interpersonal communication skills will help me improving the overall personality. The
working on the non-verbal communication skills like listening patiently to others thoughts or
perceptions, while maintaining eye contact helps to improve the warmth of the overall
communication process and trust building attitude. This will help me to improve my level of
emotional intelligence and working in group in professional space.
Thus in order to improve my communication skills further, I will take part in the soft
skill improvement class. I will mainly stress on my non-verbal communication skills like the
body language and eye contact in order to make myself approachable to others. Taking part in

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the group-based activities, working on others feedbacks will help me to increase my mental
discipline and at the same time will increase the process orientation.
SMART Goals for soft skill training
Specific (S) Improvement of the soft skills like non-verbal communication skills under the
stringent guidance of a soft-skill trainer
Measurable (M) The measurement of the goal will occur post completion of training based on the
specific assessment parameters used solely by the trainer
Achievable (A) Assisted inter-personal communication skill training will help to improve both
verbal and non-verbal communication skills and thus helping to indulge
effectively in social communication or group based activities.
Reliable (R) The training will occurs in the presence of trainer under live-situations where I
will be asked to interact directly with another person whom I am not attached
personally. The reliable atmosphere makes the overall goals even more reliable
Time-line (T) 3 months of training