1-Emotional self-awareness has a great impact on the effectiveness of leadership.  Knowing one’s own emotional state and mood is crucial in building a professional and productive relationship with one’s staff (Huber, 2014). Leaders who have the capability of being self- aware of their emotions are better able to recognize when their emotions are having a negative affect on people which then allows them to address it effectively (Goleman, 2017). Such behaviors such as being confident, involved and leading by example as well as being humble and honest, and admitting to one’s own mistakes and taking responsibility for what we do not know and knowing when to ask for help, I feel are characteristics of a leader that not only encourage, but also motivate people in wanting to do their best. I feel that people respond to leaders that make them feel as an integral part of the team. Allowing people to provide feedback is one way of doing so, as it shows them that as a leader we care about their input, their ideas and/or suggestions in moving forward with a certain project. Reference Goleman, D. (2017). Self-Awareness: The Foundation of Emotional Intelligence. Retrieved from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/self-awareness-foundation-emotional-intelligence-daniel-goleman Huber, D.L. (2014). Leadership and Nursing Care Management. (5th ed.). [VitalSource Bookshelf Version]. Retrieved from https://evolveebooks.elsevier.com/books/9781455740710 2-Leadership is more than just being a point of authority and telling people what to do. Nurse leaders need to be even more developed with working with multiple titles within the health care team such as: Doctors, nurses, patient care assistants and so many other positions held within the hosptial. Poor leadership can be recognized easily and can have an impact on how an organization operates. According to Romanowska (2014) "Developing leadership competence is a serious responsibil- ity. Poor leadership is common and may cause severe human suffering, resulting in substantial costs for business and society. When organizations invest time and money in programs for improvement of their leaders’ ability to assume responsibility, they expect improvement in employees’ performance and health" (p.97).  In order for a leader to be successful they need to possess certain skills with self awareness being one of them. Self awarenss by definition is one's ability to recognize and conscious one's own character, feelings, motives and desires. As a leader this is important because leaders often need to separate emotion to make sound decisions and judgments. A self aware leader is more likely to not act on impulses. Being more aware of one's own emotions helps a leader to better understand the emotions and feelings of the perople around them as well.  Having strong nursing leaders are an essential part of organizing safe patient care and a happy staff. Through experience I have found that you can encounter many different e ...

1. 1-Emotional self-awareness has a great impact on the
effectiveness of leadership. Knowing one’s own emotional state
and mood is crucial in building a professional and productive
relationship with one’s staff (Huber, 2014). Leaders who have
the capability of being self- aware of their emotions are better
able to recognize when their emotions are having a negative
affect on people which then allows them to address it
effectively (Goleman, 2017).
Such behaviors such as being confident, involved and leading
by example as well as being humble and honest, and admitting
to one’s own mistakes and taking responsibility for what we do
not know and knowing when to ask for help, I feel are
characteristics of a leader that not only encourage, but also
motivate people in wanting to do their best. I feel that people
respond to leaders that make them feel as an integral part of the
team. Allowing people to provide feedback is one way of doing
so, as it shows them that as a leader we care about their input,
their ideas and/or suggestions in moving forward with a certain
project.
Reference
Goleman, D. (2017). Self-Awareness: The Foundation of
Emotional Intelligence. Retrieved from
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/self-awareness-foundation-
emotional-intelligence-daniel-goleman
Huber, D.L. (2014).
Leadership and Nursing Care Management.
(5th ed.). [VitalSource Bookshelf Version]. Retrieved from

2. https://evolveebooks.elsevier.com/books/9781455740710
2-Leadership is more than just being a point of authority and
telling people what to do. Nurse leaders need to be even more
developed with working with multiple titles within the health
care team such as: Doctors, nurses, patient care assistants and
so many other positions held within the hosptial. Poor
leadership can be recognized easily and can have an impact on
how an organization operates. According to Romanowska
(2014) "Developing leadership competence is a serious
responsibil- ity. Poor leadership is common and may cause
severe human suffering, resulting in substantial costs for
business and society. When organizations invest time and
money in programs for improvement of their leaders’ ability to
assume responsibility, they expect improvement in employees’
performance and health" (p.97).
In order for a leader to be successful they need to possess
certain skills with self awareness being one of them. Self
awarenss by definition is one's ability to recognize and
conscious one's own character, feelings, motives and desires. As
a leader this is important because leaders often need to separate
emotion to make sound decisions and judgments. A self aware
leader is more likely to not act on impulses. Being more aware
of one's own emotions helps a leader to better understand the
emotions and feelings of the perople around them as well.
Having strong nursing leaders are an essential part of
organizing safe patient care and a happy staff. Through
experience I have found that you can encounter many different
egos within the hospital. The most effective nursing leaders are
the one's who are able to admit when they are wrong and are
open to other staff member's input and advice. Havign self

3. awareness helps the nurse leader to set good examples for other
staff members by using safe practice and staff being more open
to input from that leader.
References:
Romanowska, J., Larsson, G., & Theorell, T. (2014). An art-
based leadership intervention for enhancement of self-
awareness, humility, and leader performance.
Journal of Personnel Psychology
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(2), 97–106. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1027/1866-
5888/a000108
3-One’s self awareness and behaviors’ have the potential
influence us by the different things that can factor us like our
culture, belief and our values. According to Edwards and Daniel
“varies factors have a potential impact in the formulation of
one’s self awareness and behaviors’ (2009) they also define
values as “generals’ beliefs about the importance of normatively
desirable behaviors’ and actions” (p.655). A few years ago as a
unit manager my beliefs were no matter what the issues and
problems were on the unit all staffs seems to work it out every
morning we had a meeting about things that gone wrong and
what can be done to get things better, I never had a problem
getting staffs doing their job because, they knew that I am
always there to help and what I didn’t like for myself I don’t
believe on doing it to others. Some nurses always complained
that the staffs do not respect them and never do what is asked I
can truly say this I never had a problem with getting staff to do
their job, because they know that what ever is asked of them I,
as the manager can and will do. As manager and or leaders we

4. lead my examples to me that means whatever is asked of staffs
to do managers we have no issues doing it ourselves. Sometimes
staff will say to me what makes you tick meaning getting upset
I always laugh and say you will never know, having and
knowing our self-awareness will help to keep emotions and
behaviors under control no matter how upsets and angry we get
our emotions and what we feel should never be displayed before
other staffs, patients and or family members. If staffs need to be
at work early managers needs to be their early too. We need to
be honest with our self don’t say one thing a another. My
weakness is I am unable to come to work and job in and work I
have to be at work a few minutes early at least 30 mins where I
can calm by mind, do my walking rounds, get my thoughts
together and be prepared before I start some nurses have
problems with that because the seems to come to work late and
that throws my whole day off but that is something that I need
to work on and currently doing. While I was doing the unit
manager I got written up the reason for that was I was told by
the DON that I was spoon feeding the nurses too much because I
do thier job for them I am not the one that seems to delegate
and then return to make sure its done, at times I will help the
nurses by helping them to do and get the job done and I was
told that it’s the nurses job and I am there to make sure it’s
done not to do it for them. The impact of improving value
congruence itself may not be as successful a strategy as
focusing on the resultants of value. (Edwards& Daniels,2009)
Edwards, & Daniels. (2009). 655. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
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