Deepen your knowledge and reinforce your learning of key topics with a selection of journal articles that support each chapter. Preceding each article is an annotation from the authors introducing its relevance for practice and revision.

Maiden, G. (2017) Using reflection and visual representation to analyse and build leadership capacity, through a personal account of exemplary leadership, International Practice Development Journal, 7 (2): 1–8. doi:10.19043/ipdj.72.010

This article highlights that structured reflection and use of creative methods can enhance leadership capacity and are important tools in the development of transformational leadership at all levels within health organizations. It also concludes that leadership development is crucial for all members of the healthcare team, not just for health managers, and so must be nurtured across the whole team. Transformational leadership and structural change within healthcare organizations is essential to facilitate proactive, integrated approaches to care.

Alizadeh, M., Mirzazadeh, A., Parmelee, D. X., Peyton, E., Mehrdad, N., Janani, L. and Shahsavari, H. (2018) Leadership identity development through reflection and feedback in team-based learning medical student teams, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 30 (1): 76–78.

This quasi experimental research article tests out whether reflection along with Team-Based Learning (TBL) in medical student education affects leadership identity development. They learnt that reflection and feedback on the team leadership process in TBL advances the progression in stages of leadership identity development in medical students. Although the TBL strategy itself could have an impact on leadership identity development, this study demonstrates that when a reflection and feedback on leadership intervention are added, there is much greater impact.

Koya, K., Anderson, J. and Sice, P. (2017) The embodied nurse: interdisciplinary knowledge exchange between compassionate nursing and recent developments in embodied leadership studies, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73 (12): 3028–3040. doi:10.1111/jan.13363.

This research article suggests common ground between nursing and contemporary leadership research in the exposition of behaviours; namely, being non‐judgmental, listening actively, reflective practice and embracing uncertainty. Several implications can therefore be expected through the exchange of knowledge resulting from collaboration between researchers in the two disciplines.

Lumpkin, A. and Achen, R.A. (2018) Explicating the synergies of self‐determination theory, ethical leadership, servant leadership, and emotional intelligence, Journal of Leadership Studies, 12 (1): 6–20.

This article uses self‐determination theory as a foundation to study characteristics of leadership and focuses in particular on ethical and servant leadership, and emotional intelligence to ascertain contributing to effective leadership.