Effective Nursing Leadership
INTRODUCTION
Effective nursing leadership in organizations requires numerous talents, skills, and competencies and types of knowledge. At its core, leadership is about relationship with other people. Leaders’ accomplishments are largely achieved through the individual and coordinated efforts of others. Without followers, there are no leaders.
Leadership research has expanded our traditional understanding by focusing on leadership behaviors at different levels and within different functional areas of organizations: • women’s leadership styles, • leader diversity as a competitive advantage to organizations, • multicultural and global leadership, • the role of leaders in attaining safety and quality outcomes, • …show more content…
Self-management extends one’s emotional intelligence by allowing for self-control of emotions, maintenance of one’s integrity and adaptability to emerging situations.
Without a solid base of self-understanding, self-control, emotional security, trustworthiness and adaptability, it is virtually impossible to open to others and constructive in work relationships. Thus, good leaders must know themselves well and be able to choose how they will respond in social situations.
Social awareness and relationship management are qualities which are considered “social radar” – the ability to understand others and work with them productively.
Social awareness is grounded, most directly, in skills of empathy: sensing others’ feelings, needs, and concerns and taking an active interest in them. Relationship management encompasses competencies in inspiring and influencing others, visioning, developing others, collaboration and teamwork, leading change initiatives and managing conflicts.
The Five Components of Emotional Intelligence at …show more content…
|The Emotional Intelligence Framework and 18 Competencies |
|Personal Competence |Social Competence |
|Self-awareness |Social awareness |
|One’s “inner barometer”, rudder |One’s social radar |
|Emotional self-awareness* |Empathy* |
|A fundamental and Essential emotional competence |Sensing others’ feelings, needs, concerns, and
Effective nursing leadership in organizations requires numerous talents, skills, and competencies and types of knowledge. At its core, leadership is about relationship with other people. Leaders’ accomplishments are largely achieved through the individual and coordinated efforts of others. Without followers, there are no leaders.
Leadership research has expanded our traditional understanding by focusing on leadership behaviors at different levels and within different functional areas of organizations: • women’s leadership styles, • leader diversity as a competitive advantage to organizations, • multicultural and global leadership, • the role of leaders in attaining safety and quality outcomes, • …show more content…
Self-management extends one’s emotional intelligence by allowing for self-control of emotions, maintenance of one’s integrity and adaptability to emerging situations.
Without a solid base of self-understanding, self-control, emotional security, trustworthiness and adaptability, it is virtually impossible to open to others and constructive in work relationships. Thus, good leaders must know themselves well and be able to choose how they will respond in social situations.
Social awareness and relationship management are qualities which are considered “social radar” – the ability to understand others and work with them productively.
Social awareness is grounded, most directly, in skills of empathy: sensing others’ feelings, needs, and concerns and taking an active interest in them. Relationship management encompasses competencies in inspiring and influencing others, visioning, developing others, collaboration and teamwork, leading change initiatives and managing conflicts.
The Five Components of Emotional Intelligence at …show more content…
|The Emotional Intelligence Framework and 18 Competencies |
|Personal Competence |Social Competence |
|Self-awareness |Social awareness |
|One’s “inner barometer”, rudder |One’s social radar |
|Emotional self-awareness* |Empathy* |
|A fundamental and Essential emotional competence |Sensing others’ feelings, needs, concerns, and