Northouse Skills Inventory Assignment

My results from the Skills Inventory assignment from Leadership Theory and Practice by P. Northouse are the following: 19 for technical skill, 25 for human skill, and 17 for conceptual skill. This means I have a high range of human skills in leadership, while a moderate range of technical and conceptual skills.

From my own experience I agree with these results. My interest on the field of Public Health has gotten me involved in different experiences that had mostly developed my leadership towards human skills. According to Northouse (2016) “ Human skills allow a leader to assist group members in working cooperatively as a group to achieve common goals. For Katz, it means being aware of one’s own perspective on issues, and, at the same time, their own ideas to those of others” (p. 45), this definitely relates to past experiences of mine at different health studies where I was responsible of recruiting, and leading the study visits. At two
According to Northouse (2016) technical skills “involve a hands-on activity with a basic product or process within an organization” (p. 44), while the the conceptual skills “are the ability to work with ideas and concepts” (p. 45). The author also points out different outcomes that influence a leader’s competencies, such as career experiences, which “ The skills model suggest that experiences acquired in the course of leaders’ careers influence their knowledge and skills to solve complex problems” (p. 54). Most of my career experience has been related to interacting and asking health related questions to people, not putting an idea into shape. The most technical instructions that I have followed at my experiences have been to follow study protocols, but these have to be adapted towards each health participant in order for him to trust me and share sensitive information related to the