adapting to a nursing leadership role
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Basics for a nurse leader: some "must-haves" for leadership development and how to adapt from a peer role.TRANSCRIPT
Leadership Styles and
Communication
Kris Mailepors Director of Organizational Development
Catholic Medical CenterPh [email protected]: @krismailepors
Leadership
Leadership
Leadership
Leadership
Think of an important leader in your life. What made you see them as a great leader?
Please go to your handout…
LeadershipSometimes, we think we’re doing okay, but we
are ultra-critical of the leaders around us…
Forgetting that leaders areReally just like us…
LeadershipHealthcare has an uncertain future;
Volume Based Service/Outcome BasedStructured & Regimented Flexible & Dynamic
Employees are requiring leaders that are flexible, participative, and outcome-oriented
…Leaders must motivate for creativity, achievement, prestige, self expression, recognition, participation
LeadershipWhat are the traits we all agree on?1. Truthfulness:
2. Fairness:
3. Dependability:
4. Professionalism:
LeadershipWhat are the traits we all agree on?5. Flexibility:
6. Integrity:
7. Decisive:
8. Patience/Stress Tolerance:
LeadershipWhat about styles?1. Autocratic: (Authoritative, Transactional)
2. Democratic: (transformational)
3. Laisse-Faire:
4. Situational:
LeadershipWhat about Corporate Culture/Politics?
Peer-to-manager transition?What’s hard?What’s easy?
LeadershipWhat about Corporate Culture/Politics?These are the “must-do’s” for anyone
developing as a manager:1. Break this habit:
Misguided Loyalties to “self”
2. Do some “social mapping”3. You are now a professional optimist
LeadershipWhat about Corporate Culture/Politics?These are the “must-do’s” for anyone
developing as a manager:4. Be professionally active (being here)5. Professionalism: excellence, self-
respect, integrity6. Praise, Praise, Praise7. Use the grapevine, don’t be the
grapevine
WHERE AM I SUPPOSED TO GO?
?
This is the one part of your professional journey where you are on your own…
It doesn’t really matter…
It doesn’t really matter…
Just not this way
LeadershipDon’t be overwhelmed by the horizon
Do your best to make progress toward it
LeadershipIn its most basic form, you already know:• What makes a good leader• What you would need to be a better leader
Take actions to learn NEW ways of doing things
References:
Osuagwu & Osuagwu (2006). From Staff Nurse to Manager. BookSurge, LLC
Goldsmith (2007). What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. Hyperion. New York
www.Barnesandnoble.comwww.amazon.com