Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Promoting Civility

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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.  Mahatma Gandhi If you watch the nightly news and/or observe what goes on in our political environments today, you may sometimes wonder if we live in a civilized society.  There is a rash of discourteous, disrespectful and rude behavior that is strangely tolerated, and even accepted as a new norm.  Bullying others now seems to … [Read more...]

Becoming a Leader with Impact

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN  Jeff Bezos the founder of Amazon once commented that your personal brand is what people say about you after you leave the room.  All of us want to believe that as leaders we will have impact.  But this is not a given and to have impact, we must be intentional in our leadership. In their book Be a Person of Impact, authors Jackie and Kevin … [Read more...]

The Importance of Trust

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Trust is like change in a leader’s pocket.  Each time you make a good leadership decision, you earn more change.  Each time you make poor decisions, you pay out some of your change to the people.” I was recently talking with a high potential young nurse leader who had been asked to do something that was clearly fraudulent by her supervisors.  She is devastated on so many … [Read more...]

Building Your Energy Bus

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN             Nurse Leaders and organizations today struggle with staff who don't seem engaged in their work.  Engagement in work requires positive energy and optimism.  How do we build that?  Author Jon Gordon is well known for his work The Energy Bus.  In this highly regarded book, … [Read more...]

Asking Questions to Promote Staff Engagement

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Leaders who are helping others to grow and innovate are always trying to craft the best questions to make a difference.” Kevin Cashman One of the most powerful tools that a nurse leader can use to engage staff is the use of open-ended questions.   Leaders often think that they need to have all the answers to be effective. But when it comes down to it, interactions with … [Read more...]