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Leadership in organizations
Identify characteristics of transformational and transactional leaders.
Compare and contrast the leader–follower relationship in a transformational environment and the leader–follower relationship in a transactional environment.
Explain how transformational leadership generates growth in an individual, an organization, and a group.
Describe how Maslow’s hierarchy of needs relates to leadership development.
Explain how leadership ability is enhanced by emotional intelligence.
Explain how leadership is an integral component of each professional nurse’s role.
Describe how you could reinvent yourself, personally and professionally, so as not to merely“live the status quo.”
Reflect on Covey’s (1989) seven habits of highly effective people and brainstorm on how you could incorporate them into your nursing practice.
How would you describe the image of individuals you think of as leaders? Individuals you do not consider to be leaders? What are some of the differences between those two groups of individuals in
How would you describe the image you convey? Look at the way you dress, things you have written, presentations you have made, your participation on committees or in class, and so on. Is this the kind
Compare the “leadership image” of nurses in various roles: staff nurse, advanced practice nurse, nurse educator, nursing service administrator, and so on. How are they alike? How are they
What can aspiring nurse leaders do to overcome negative stereotypes of nurses and nursing, create a genuinely positive leadership image, and convey that image to achieve desired goals?
Read Bolman & Deal’s Leading with soul: An uncommon journey of spirit (2001) and determine where you are on your journey of leadership.
Define the concept of vision as it relates to leadership.
Describe how a nurse leader or follower can facilitate the identification, articulation, and communication of a personal vision.
Identify strategies that would be effective in making one’s personal vision become a reality.
Formulate a personal vision for the profession or one’s particular area of practice.
Identify characteristics of nursing and non-nursing leaders who are viewed as visionary.
Describe characteristics of a creative person, process, and environment.
Project potential outcomes of using creativity as a nurse leader or follower.
Identify how the new science of leadership fosters creativity in order to improve leadership and followership.
Examine how the incorporation of vision and creativity into one’s professional role can help vitalize and energize a nurse.
Read the story “Footprints.” How does this relate to creativity? To leadership? To providing leadership and fostering creativity in nursing?
What is your vision for nursing in general? In your current sphere of practice? What goals do you have for the profession? Which of these goals can be achieved by nurses themselves, and which need
Using Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech (see Web site http://www.mecca.org/~crights/dream.html) or the speeches of other powerful orators (e.g., John F. Kennedy, Margaret
Compare and contrast an experience you’ve had professionally to Harry Chapin’s song“Flowers Are Red.” How could you use “every color” to prevent a recurrence? (See Web site
Create a mindmap of leadership.
Complete the “How Creative Are You?” questionnaire. What did you learn about yourself?
Analyze the concept of followership.
Examine elements of the follower role that are appealing and those that are not.
Examine the similarities between leaders and followers.
Articulate the interdependence between leaders and followers.
Describe sources of power.
Examine how power can be used to empower oneself and others.
Formulate strategies to develop oneself as an effective follower.
What is appealing about being in the follower role? What is unattractive about being in that role?
Review the characteristics of effective followers. How would you describe yourself in the follower role? How effective have you been in that role?
Talk to your nursing colleagues about followership. What are their views on the concept? Was the concept ever addressed in their educational programs? Do they rate themselves as effective followers?
How do your colleagues’ opinions on followership and its development compare with your own views? How are nurses’ views similar to or different from those outside healthcare or those outside a
Read Chaleff’s (1995, pp. 177–178) “Meditation on Followership” (below). Are these principles by which you could live and that could guide your practice as a follower? This meditation may be
Describe ways in which individuals can develop as leaders.
Describe the characteristics of an environment that facilitates the development of leadership skills in self and others.
Relate the concept of empowerment to the development of leaders.
Analyze the process of mentoring as it relates to the development of leaders.
Propose a personal plan for leadership development that attends to empowerment, mentoring, role modeling, networking, self-assessment, and continued renewal.
Read at least three journal editorials, one by Leah Curtin, one by Barbara Stevens Barnum, and one by another editor. To what extent do these individuals express controversial ideas and convey a
Complete the Leadership Environment Assessment Survey. To what extent does your organization provide an environment that promotes leadership? What can you do to make your environment more conducive
Review the discussion about “what mentors look for in a protégé.” How do you “rate” in each of the areas listed? What assets do you think you would bring to a mentoring relationship?
List the qualities you would like to see in your mentor. Who do you know—in your immediate environment, from your educational program, in your specialty organization, in your local community,
The next time you attend a professional conference or convention, make it a point to meet at least three new colleagues. Talk to each one about his or her interests, areas of expertise, goals,
Reflect on the “results” of the assessments you completed earlier and any other tools you have found. What areas repeatedly emerge as strengths? How can you use those to develop as a leader
Write your personal career goals: What position would you like to hold 25 years from now?What types of offices would you like to hold? What awards would you like to have won or honors to have been
Compare “feminine leadership” with “masculine leadership.”
Examine the concept of androgyny.
Describe barriers women face to exercising leadership in organizations.
Propose strategies that women and men can use to enhance their effectiveness as leaders in organizations.
Compare “web” organizations with “hierarchical” ones.
Observe a female nurse and a male nurse in interaction with patients, physicians, and each other. What do you notice about the similarities between their communication and interpersonal styles? What
Think about your own childhood and current situation. What were some of the “rules” by which you were expected to behave? Were those rules made explicit to you, or were they merely implied or
Select one of the women listed in Felder’s (1996) book (e.g., Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks) and read a more extensive biography about her. To what extent did she
Write a poem of 20 lines or less that conveys the essence of the strength of “feminine leadership” and that of “masculine leadership.” Now read that poem out loud. Given all that you have
Compare and contrast the major theories of leadership.
Discuss the essential elements of leadership.
Describe the nine tasks of leadership.
Distinguish leadership from management.
Create a personal definition of leadership that reflects its essential elements.
Given the opportunity to publish “the definitive definition of leadership,” what would you write? How does your definition reflect the nine tasks of leadership and the essential elements of
Ask several nursing colleagues and several people outside the health professions (including children) to define leadership. What are the similarities in the definitions offered by these individuals?
If an alien came to earth, approached you, and said, “I see you are a nurse. Take me to your leader,” to whom would you take the alien? Who, in your opinion, is providing true leadership within
Read The Velveteen Rabbit (Williams, 1975). What leadership concepts can you identify in this children’s story? What can we learn about leadership from this story?Read the poem “If” by Rudyard
Complete the following two self-assessment tools to get a sense of how you “measure up” as a leader: (1) the “Grossman & Valiga Leadership Characteristics and Skills Assessment“ tool, and (2)
Analyze the concept of excellence.
Discuss the responsibility leaders who will create nursing’s preferred future have for promoting excellence.
Examine the interrelationship among leadership, excellence, and professional involvement.
Propose strategies for exercising leadership, promoting excellence, and being professionally involved to create nursing’s preferred future.
Ask several children how they define excellence or what goes into something being called“excellent.” Pose this same question to nurses in practice and to individuals engaged in other professional
Read a short story or poem or watch a film that has recently received a significant award for excellence, and do the same for a “non-winner” in the genre. What sets the “winner” apart from
Identify a nurse who recently received an award that acknowledges excellence—in clinical practice, in education, in research, in contributions to the profession, in the care of a particular
Define the new leadership that is necessary for nurses to adopt in order to participate successfully in and shape the healthcare system of today and tomorrow.
Examine how chaos creates new opportunities for nurses to function as leaders in the healthcare delivery system.
Describe how each of the following theories are congruent with the new leadership: quantum, developmental, cognitive, and perspective transformation.
Identify how the new leadership influences the nursing profession, as well as individual nurses throughout their careers.
Describe strategies to assist nurses’ development as new leaders.
Explain how the new way of thinking about leadership described in this chapter can affect the way we conceptualize the role of the nurse today. How could you assist others in adapting this
Think about the environment in which you practice. Would you describe it as chaotic? Why or why not? What contributes to the chaos or relative “calm?” What have been the negative ways that you
Listen to a jazz musical selection with an extended “improv” (improvisational) piece. Despite the seemingly chaotic notes and chords, do you hear or feel any patterns or synchrony? How did you
Who do you think of as leaders where you practice? What characteristics of the new science of leadership do these people portray?Take The Working Climate Survey (www.imetacomm.com/ea) to help you
Describe the process by which leaders and followers can thrive and grow despite the chaos of today’s healthcare system.Describe how chaos can propel individuals and organizations to accomplish
Analyze how nurse leaders can use the change process effectively in the realization of a vision.
Formulate strategies that decrease resistance to change.
Describe how purposeful introduction of conflict can generate change.
Several authors assert that resistance to change grows out of fear. Talk to your nurse colleagues about why they have resisted change. Is the bottom-line reason that of fear? If so, what seems to be
What strategies have you used or experienced being used that have resulted in reduced resistance to and a successful outcome of change?
Given the “state of the art” of nursing, do we need a revolution? Do your nurse colleagues agree with your position?
Listen to the song “The Times They Are a-Changin’” by Bob Dylan (1967). How is it that new expectations seem to emerge slowly yet still demand change? (See Web
Listen to the song “Revolution” by the Beatles (Lennon & McCarthy, 1968). Why would some people prefer a quicker, revolutionary approach to change? (See Web
Read an article about chaos in nursing in the journal Complexity and Chaos in Nursing.Describe how the new science of leadership correlates with how the nurse practices leadership in a state of chaos.
View the movie Witness with Harrison Ford and Alexander Goodenough. This movie portrays how a group of people work effectively together in constructing a building. What strategies can you take from
Use a personality inventory such as the Myers-Brigg to identify your individual personality style. Discuss how the results affect your ability to communicate and to resolve and grow from conflict.
Analyze how current societal healthcare trends can affect the future of nursing.
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