Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

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...]

Key Attributes Nurses Seek in Leaders

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “The proof of leadership is found in followers”.    John Maxwell I was interviewed this week for a leadership corner article regarding my thoughts on nursing leadership and what staff nurses expect from their leaders.  This is an interesting question.  In research done by Kouzes and Posner who wrote the leadership challenge, they … [Read more...]

Becoming a Servant Leader

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."  --Max De Pree A sad fallout of all of the expectations that have come with healthcare reform is that many nurse leaders today are perceived as not being caring by their staff.   Young nurses today often complain … [Read more...]

Correcting a Bad First Impression

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN I recently spoke with a nursing colleague who felt she had made a bad first impression on the new chairman of the board for her hospital system.  She was presenting nursing quality information and acknowledged that she sometimes does take too long to reach her key points.  The board chair cut her off ten minutes into her presentation and … [Read more...]