Personal Statement, Self-Assessment: Finding Your Niche

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone  who carries water for his people so they can get on with their jobs.
—Robert Townsend
To prepare for this Application, review  Chapter 1 of your Career Opportunities in Health Care Management course  text. Take the Healthcare Management Talent Quotient Quiz in Table 1-1  of your course text to determine your strengths and aptitude for working  in health care management. Review the various types of health care  settings (see Waldenville  health care settings and your course text) and the various descriptions  of health care management positions available. Prepare a 1- to 2-page  self-assessment of the role and setting of health care management that  you might pursue based on your Management Talent Quotient.
To complete this Application, write a 1- to 2-page paper that identifies the following:

Based on the results of your quiz, on what areas did you score highly?
What are your strengths? 
What areas do you feel you need to work on to be successful as a health care manager?
What information from this week’s Learning Resources  affected your understanding of the skills necessary to be a successful  health care manager? Please explain and provide sufficient examples.

Instruction:
Be sure to support your work with specific citations from  this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as  appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct.