Relational Leaders: Kelsey, Hall, And Kurbing

All three leaders - Kelsey, Hall, and Kurbing – each use a distinctly different approach to leading the hospital’s operation. Hall’s trait approach to leadership focused so much on her internal qualities that the imbalance resulted in a lack of relational leadership. The closed doors of communication with the rest of the staff caused an unclear picture of what Hall’s actual role entailed. Since not very much information is given about Hall, it would not necessarily be fair to compare her to Kelsey and Kurbing as the least competent leader just because she displays the least amount of interpersonal interactions. It is quite possible for a skilled leader to be immersed in a heavy task-orientated rather than people-orientated administrative role
The biggest impact that Hall made was through her association with Kelsey. Hall couldn’t change the fact that the nature of her position was naturally dispositioned to be less relational, but she made it clear that her detachment was her won prerogative through her choice to avoid subordinates while on break and only exclusively use Kelsey to indirectly relate messages to others. As a result of her through Kelsey, Hall’s reputation was largely a consequence of Kelsey’s reputation. The case study doesn’t go into much of a description of Hall’s leadership style when she is promoted to a nurse clinician or Kelsey’s leadership style as the new supervisor. Therefore, it is perhaps the easiest to compare Kelsey and Kurbing as head nurses and in the process see how their striking differences also resemble a trace of similarity. Both Kelsey and Kurbing possessed a form of charisma, but just a different kind of charisma. While Hall’s trait leadership theory would say that people can only be born as inherent leaders. Kurbing had to prove herself in order to earn the respect of idealized
One of the principles of relational leading is empowering others, but Kelsey and Hall abused their power through an unhealthy extreme of empowering in the form of overloading others and underloading themselves. Through comparing this form of “empowerment” to Kurbing’s proper form of empowerment, one can see who the two forms of empowerment vastly