In this assignment, to be completed individually, you will develop your own personal mission, vision, and values statements and examine your own leadership qualities as they pertain to health care. Complete the following:

Part 1-

• Using the NCHL Healthcare Leadership Competencies table for Health Care Leaders (in the Resources section) and the results from your last NCHL Leadership survey, define which competency level you were when you started this program and at which level you feel you are now, for each of the competencies listed. Consider what knowledge, skills, and opportunities have influenced this change in competency level (or if the level has remained the same, consider what you can do to improve your skills and knowledge to attain the next level-or maintain that level, if you are already at the expected Master's competency level).
• Design your personal vision, mission, and values (including ethics, social accountability, and stewardship) statements related to the health care field you are in or will be entering. Use the statements you developed for this unit's Professional Health Care Mission and Vision discussion, and revise according to the feedback you received.
• Consider how your NCHL Leadership Competency levels have influenced your personal statements. You will examine this in more detail in Part 3.
• Choose a health care organization to study. You may use the organization for which you work or choose an organization related to your field (one you may be interested in working in the future).
• Conduct research to find the organization's vision, mission, values, ethics codes, social accountability, stewardship values, and governance models used. You will compare and evaluate how your leadership skills and personal statements will fit within this organization.

Part 2-

For this part of the assignment, create a visual diagram, matrix, illustration, graphic, or concept map to present your findings from Part 1. You may use PowerPoint, Word, Visio, or free software from MindMeister.com. (If you have Microsoft Office 2010, you can find wonderful templates and examples of concept maps and additional graphic diagrams.)

• Create a visual diagram, matrix, illustration, or concept map to:
  • Define your personal statements.
  • Compare your NCHL leadership competency levels.
  • Define your chosen organization's statements and values (such as, vision, mission, values, ethics codes, social accountability, stewardship values, and governance models)
• Show connections between each of your statements and your NCHL Leadership Competencies.
• Show connections (or the lack of) between your statements and NCHL Leadership Competencies and your chosen organization's statements and values.
• See the Tojek Learning Activities Concept Map sample in the Resources section. Your map can be much simpler than this example.

Part 3

• NCHL Leadership Competency: Drawing on the results from your comparison of your NCHL Leadership Competency levels from Part 1, evaluate what knowledge, skills and opportunities have influenced this change in competency level (or if the level has remained the same consider what you can do to improve your skills and knowledge to attain the next level - or maintain that level if you are already at the expected Master's competency level).
• Personal Statements: Analyze your personal vision, mission, and values (including ethics, social accountability, and stewardship) statements related to the health care field you are in or will be entering. Include how your NCHL Leadership Competency levels have influenced your personal statements.
• Leadership and Organizational Alignment: Discuss the health care organization you have chosen including the organization's vision, mission, values, ethics codes, social accountability, stewardship values, and governance models used:
  • Evaluate how your leadership skills and personal statements will fit within this organization.
  • Discuss your findings from your visual diagram, matrix or concept map, and the connections therein.
  • Summarize what parts are in alignment and explain how.
  • Summarize what parts are incongruent and explain why.
  • Discuss the possible consequences of misalignment.
  • Discuss how to resolve potential conflicts between your health care vision and values and the organizational vision and values.
• Recommendations and Summary: Summarize the key points from this assignment. Include at least two recommendations for your personal and professional improvement plan (LLI - Life Long Learning Inventory) that you have learned from this examination and comparison of your personal statements, leadership qualities (competencies), and your chosen organization.