Question 1.2 Leadership is a process of influencing the behavior of either an individual or a group, regardless of the reason, in an effort to achieve goals and in a given situation. Some leadership definitions incorporate an interaction among people and the process of influencing. In addition, Leadership can be taught and learned. Everyone possesses basic leadership skills but may not have specific skills needed to lead a particular group, department or organization. Leadership is a way of thinking about oneself and the role played in certain scenario. The leaders innovate and conquer the context of a situation and cope with change. Leadership is built through a good communication, experiences, positive interactions, challenges and stories that make connections with others. To ensure this happens a leader must ask him or herself a few questions such as, am I being consistent? do I encourage good communication? do I focus on team building with my staff. Asking this questions is essential to ensure that leadership is developing effectively. Moreover, a leader combines administrative, financial, operational skills and clinical, to solve problems in the care environment so it can result in a cost-effective care in a way that satisfying for every team member. Effectiveness is a key outcome of leadership efforts in health care. It has been suggested that there is a shortage of leader and a crisis of leadership in nursing. Nurses are challenges to respond with leadership and can be best respond by demonstrating vision, innovativeness, adapting to changes, seeking new tools, and dealing with a new health care environment, and leading the way with client-centered strategies (Joseph, 2015; Joseph et al., 2016). Effective leadership are change agents and promote innovation. Innovation is seen as a viable mechanism to address care delivery complexity. As a new nurse, one of the skills that has helped me throughout my career is being fearless. When the opportunity of becoming a leading charge nurse at Psychiatric mental health unit that was offered to me, it was the experience I was concerned about and not the fit. It was a new territory and a great opportunity for me to develop the necessary skills to grow as a leader. This leadership position was vitally important not only to my professional development but also aid me in the promotion to a next career level. Question 1.4 Looking more into the matter, we need to address a basic question: What is leadership? People who study leadership have struggles with this question for many decades and have written articles about the nature of leadership. Truth is that despite the many definition or concepts many people are accurately reflection in what is to be a leader. “Leadership as a trait” A trait is a distinguishing quality of an individual, which is often inherited. Stating that leadership as a trait means that each particular person brings to the table certain amount of qualitie ...