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The Leadership Trajectory

Developing Legacy Leaders-Ship

  • 1st Edition - August 16, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, Karren Kowalski, Susan Sportsman
  • Language: English

Designed to help you excel at every stage of your leadership path, this unique and practical text is organized around a nursing and health care leadership trajectory of three co… Read more

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Designed to help you excel at every stage of your leadership path, this unique and practical text is organized around a nursing and health care leadership trajectory of three core areas — The Strategies, The Personal, and The Environment. The Strategies covers necessary actions that you need to take to become more influential in any environment to move yourself and your people to greater contributions. The Personal relates to the concepts that you must develop and hone to increase your influence. The Environment reinforces how you can exercise the strategies and personal factors in this leadership model through assessing the situations in which you find yourself.

Key features

  • Reflection questions in each chapter emphasize the importance of the process being discussed as a strategy for growth and to facilitate active reading
  • LL Alert! boxes cite examples of actions and statements to avoid
  • LL Lineup summaries at the end of each chapter help you create an action plan related to the chapter topic
  • Practical approach features straightforward, concise content that addresses only the most relevant information on the subject of each chapter
  • The Strategies covers necessary actions that you need to take to become more influential in any environment to move yourself and your people to greater contributions
  • The Personal relates to the concepts that you must develop and hone to increase your influence
  • The Environment reinforces how you can exercise the strategies and personal factors in this model through assessing the situations in which you find yourself

Readership

MSN programs in nursing and healthcare administration; DNP programs; PhD programs in nursing administration; MSN programs leading to the CNL designation; Leadership development programs in hospitals and health care systems

Table of contents

The Strategies
Strategies Overview

1. Leading to Legacies

2. Model

3. The Profession and Values

4. Life-Long Learning

5. Purpose

6. Self-Assessing

7. Reflecting

8. Framing

9. Influencing

10. Advocating

11. Coaching

12. Mentoring

13. Visioning

14. Wisdom
The Personal
Personal Overview

15. Accountability

16. Agility

17. Attitudes

18. Authenticity

19. Capacity

20. Courage

21. Creativity

22. Integrity

23. Intelligence

24. Mindfulness

25. Presence

26. Resilience

27. Risking

28. Spirituality

29. Timing

30. Truthfulness

31. Trust

32. Vulnerability
The Environment
Environment Overview

33. Alliances

34. Communication

35. Contribution

36. Culture

37. Engagements

38. Governance

39. Inclusion

40. Innovation

41. Politics

42. Processes

43. Relationships

44. Strategy

45. Structure

46. Exiting
Conclusion
References

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 8, 2020
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Patricia S. Yoder-Wise

Dr. Yoder-Wise is professor and Dean Emerita at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and she also teaches for the University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston. She has taught in every type of nursing education program from nursing assistant through doctoral and continuing education. She is an author (e.g., Leading and Managing in Nursing and leadership/competence articles), editor (e.g., The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing /Nursing Forum), and serves as president of the Wise Group. Dr. Yoder-Wise is a past president of the Texas Nurses Association, American Nurses Credentialing Center, CGEAN, and the President of the National League for Nursing.
Affiliations and expertise
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, USA

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Karren Kowalski

Affiliations and expertise
President, Kowalski and Associates Consulting, Castle Rock, CO, USA

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Susan Sportsman

Dr. Sportsman is the co-author on this title. She has worked as a medical-surgical and psychiatric nurse in hospitals and in the community; she has been a teacher and an administrator in both service and education; and she has consulted for a broad spectrum of colleges and universities throughout North America. Most recently she served as Director of Consulting Services at Elsevier’s Education Division. Prior to that she held positions as Dean of the College of Health Science and Human Services at Midwestern State University; Associate Dean of Nursing at Texas Tech University; and Vice President, Mental Health Programs at Harris Methodist Health System.
Affiliations and expertise
Formerly Dean, College of Health Science and Human Services, Midwestern State University; Associate Dean of Nursing, Texas Tech University; Vice President, Mental Health Programs, Harris Methodist Health System, USA