Leadership Challenges: Leadership Analysis

Leadership Challenges:

"Power isn't control at all--power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own." Beth Revis

Leading a successful organizational culture change requires clear and often repeated statements of the vision, helping team members understand their role in the organization (Shi & Johnson, 2014). Responsibilities associated with administrative role include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting and budgeting. As a leader, I constantly have to approach the execution of my program with the vision of the health department

Leadership involves providing direction, gaining alignment, and receiving commitment from followers (Shi & Johnson, 2014). Trust is very important in any relationship, whether it is two people or a group of people, trust is vital. Trust fosters an open relationship and establishes an environment of comfort and support. By building trust, I provide an environment where my staff members are more prone to be more efficient in their work and trusting in my decisions as well as develop their ability to build relationships with

Research has shown that 6% of career success is due to intellect while 27-45% can be accredited to emotional intelligence (Shi and Johnson, 2014). Especially in promoting awareness to safe sleep practices such as not bed sharing with your infant, research has shown that resistance to this practice is due to the fact that parents believe it is a time of bonding with the child. As a leader, I must be sensitive to this fact newborn infants need to be fed often and that combined with the increased stress of parents being sleep-deprived during the first weeks of adjusting to a new infant leads to parental exhaustion and possible need to sleep in bed with the child to decrease parent getting out of bed. Thus I can now educate parents through statistics that sleeping in bed with the infant poses more harm and increases the risk of SIDS and that the convenience for the parent is not worth the risk of having a dead infant. In that same light, I also have to be aware of cultural differences that exist in safe sleep practices as a leader. African-American families are twice as likely to put a baby to sleep prone and their SIDS rates are twice as high as the Caucasian population. Taking into account this data, I must ensure that in areas where the population is largely African American, more emphasis be placed on educating and advocating for placing babies to sleep in