Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Learning to Say I’m Sorry

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Learning to apologize in a leadership role requires a good deal of courage.  It’s not comfortable for any of us to admit an error, or to acknowledge that something we’ve done has caused others harm or inconvenience. So when leaders do apologize, we know he or she is putting honesty and honor above personal comfort or self-protection.  It’s … [Read more...]

The Shift to Value-Based Care

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN For decades in healthcare, nurse leaders have carefully watched the volume of care that was delivered in their departments because this has been the metric for reimbursement.  We are now undergoing a transformational shift moving toward a system less focused on volume and more focused on value.  It is happening slowly with changes in … [Read more...]

Self-Management in Leadership

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN "Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power"   Lao Tzu I often ask nurse leaders to share their wisdom with emerging leaders.  A recurring theme is to manage yourself before you try to manage anyone else.  Most new leaders find that this really is their biggest challenge.  In leadership development, we spend a great … [Read more...]

Achieving Success as an Introverted Nurse Leader

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform”   Susan Cain Years ago, I worked with … [Read more...]

Enabling Staff to Act

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN A frequent complaint that I hear from staff nurses when I ask why shared governance is so hard to implement is that they don't feel empowered by their leaders.  James Kouzes and Barry Posner are well known leadership researchers and authors.  Their leadership framework The Leadership Challenge has been used for more than 30 years in … [Read more...]