Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Avoiding 10 Common Leadership Mistakes

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“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”   John Maxwell It is always interesting to ask nurse leaders about the mistakes that they have made in their roles.  Most leadership mistakes are not big failures, but smaller mistakes that they often repeated early in their careers.  Experience is a good … [Read more...]

Writing Award Nominations

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN If you are a nurse leader working in a health system, you probably have numerous opportunities during the year to nominate your staff for awards and recognition.  But do you do it?  The answer for many of us is probably not as often as we should.  Nurse leaders are busy.  Writing a good award nomination application or letter takes time - for … [Read more...]

Capitalizing on Luck in Your Career

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Next month, I become the editor of Nurse Leader, the official journal of the American Organization of Nurse Executives.  When my colleagues ask how this all came to be - I can honestly answer that I didn't plan it all out.  To some extent, I was definitely in the right place at the right time with the right skill set and the right … [Read more...]

Pre-Selections for Nurse Leader Roles

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN One of our blog readers recently wrote about a situation where an outside candidate was hired for a leadership position that was not made available to other potential candidates in the organization.  The lack of transparency of selection in some job searches can be very challenging.  There are situations where you may in good faith apply for … [Read more...]

Major Challenges for Nurse Executives in 2015

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By Rose O. Sherman "Balancing optimism and realism, intuition and planning, faith and fact can be difficult.  But that is what it takes to be effective in navigating leadership."  John Maxwell Each year in our Introduction to Nursing Leadership graduate course, students select a chief  nursing officer in a health care agency to interview.  The students have a list of … [Read more...]