Nursing and Politics
Learning about the politics of change combines a number of courses, each focusing on a unique set of leadership skills. The courses can be linked together into a set of practices, which can be spread out over time with action planning between the courses. Alternatively, they can be given as a one-off course. Each course last approximately 3 hours.
The Courses:
Leading Change
Leading change is a critical skill for all directors of nursing to understand, including how to engage those early starters and what to do about the resisters. As leaders it is important to understand and respond appropriately to all your employees.
Political Skills
Nurse directors are generally bad at dealing with politics but politics is a necessary skill for all leaders to know and understand. Nurse directors need to build alliances, be in the knowledge loop, mirror those in power and turn enemies into friends.
Demonstrate Caring
In healthcare, many nurse directors feel to have to make a choice between a supportive workplace and one that is successful at the bottom-line. Directors will learn about creating both a caring and financially successful organization.
Win as Much as You Can
Collaboration between hospital units in often taken as a given, but often collaboration breaks down dramatically. Directors will learn about how to be both competitive and collaborative without sacrificing integrity and honesty.
Vision and Values
Directors have an obligation to define the direction of their organization and inspires nurses to higher levels of performance. Directors will learn how a powerful vision can touch critical values in ways that can inspire us all to greatness.
Ten-Month Nursing Certificate Program
This ten-month course combines all of the learnings together. High potential nurses are elected by their leaders to attend the course. The course asks the hospital to invite high level leaders, including finance, quality assurance, human resources, operations and other leaders to lead portions of the material. Action planning assignments are built into the sessions, so that at the end of the course, the nurses have paid for their development with cost savings.
Common Client Needs
- A nursing leadership gap has been identified as a significant need.
- A significant performance or cultural shift is needed.
- A high potential group is needing skills to go to the next level.
Outcomes
- System approach to buidling nurse leadership bench strength.
- Accelerated development for high potential nurse leaders.
- Proven framework tailored to drive organization performance and leadership development through an organization intervention.
- 20 three-hour course sessions over a ten-month period (bracketed by day-long pre- and post-offsites).
