NAPAN 8th Annual Conference

“The (super) heroes among us - unsung and celebrated! Learning from our past ...

protecting our future”J Rush, RN, PhD April 09

Objectives

• To present a ‘new spin’ on nursing leadership• To explore how our way was paved in the

past• To engage in the concept of nursing heroes

and the ‘superhero’• To recognize the value & strength of the

collective …

Getting together

• Retreat – body, mind, spirit• Strengthen commitment &

the collective!• Reflect

Ends in ViewEngage …Develop … Discover … TRANSFORMATIONAL

Paving the way… your leadership

• Leaders don’t just happen• Skills• Goals• Vision• Mission• Know the landscape

Landscape

• Relentless change• Competing priorities• Pressures• Complex Context • Bumpy road!

Role – as leaders & with leaders (at all levels)

• Facilitator• Agent, Advocate• Accountabilities• Deliverables• Making a difference• Doing good• Doing the right thing … and doing that thing

right!

Review in Brief…Transformational ‘Leadership’*

• Is advanced by 5 primary behaviours and is everybody’s Is advanced by 5 primary behaviours and is everybody’s business:business:

1. Creating and sustaining trust2. Enabling others to act3. Implementing knowledge management or continuous

learning4. Leading and sustaining the process of change5. Enacting moral leadership and person centered values

*Kouses & Posner, 2002

Past & present… unsung & celebrated

• Who are our ‘heros’?

Our ‘Imaginary’ Past

• How did we learn about leaders and heros?• When was the idea planted & cultivated?• SUPER HEROS?• Think back…

• Who were they?• What can we learn?

It only took a clothes peg…..

SUPER HEROS

Attributes in common

Ordinary people … all have a ‘past’ Play a role – usually a dual persona (Clark, Peter, Diana …) Power … from environment, mentor, money, tricks, accident! Strength is often kept a secret Extraordinary deeds Have ‘significant’ others (Robin, Alfred, Lois, Mary Jane, Aunt May,

RCMP!!) Learn about a problem … but usually trouble finds them! Never ask/seek credit Motto/tag line Outfit Don’t die Leagues and Teams! …… goals?