Leadership: Survival of the Fittest

1. Leadership: Survival of the Fittest AnnMarie Papa, DNP,RN,CEN,NE-BC,FAEN,FAAN Clinical Director, MICU, Medical, Observation & Emergency Nursing Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

2. Leadership • Many Theories • Common Threads • Inspiring Others • Motivating Others • Influencing Others • Providing a Vision

3. The ability to influence others…with or without authorityPeter DeLisle

4. SEPONL President Elizabeth Menschner Director, Nursing Services, CarioPulmonary  Temple University Health System President Elect Theresa Stine Clinical Director of Medical-Surgical Nursing Albert Einstein Medical Center Immediate Past President Barbara Wadsworth Senior Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer Main Line Health System Secretary Jan Nash Vice President of Patient Services Paoli Hospital Treasurer Carol Chwal Nurse Director, Women's and Children's Services Abington Memorial Hospital

7. Why Become a Leader • Promoted through the ranks • Personal desire • Identified by another • Desire for • Power • Influence • Serve

8. True leadershipis born out of a guiding vision and a PASSION to accomplish a noble task, and to inspire others to develop and release their potential. Myles Munroe Becoming A Leader, “Everyone Can Do It” 8

9. Important Characteristics • Integrity • Courage • Dedication • Forward Looking • Persistence • Resilience • Credibility • Situational Awareness • Emotional Intelligence • Critical Self-Reflection

10. Leaders are ordinary people who accept or are placed under extraordinary circumstances that bring forth their latent potential, producing a character that inspires the confidence and trust of others! Myles Munro Becoming A Leader, “Everyone Can Do It” 10

11. Good leadership involves responsibility to the welfare of the group Some people will get angry with your actions and decisions It’s inevitable, if you’re honorable “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” Colin L Powell 11

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13. Criticism • No leader is exempt • Taking a position is a risk • Opinions evoke human responses

14. Pressure • From all angles • Critical decisions that impact lives • Knowledge that not everyone has

15. Ineffective Leaders • Members don’t feel valued • Creates negative attitudes • Not developing all employees • Higher absenteeism • Low productivity/poor quality • Miscommunication

16. Effective Leaders • Members at all levels feel needed • Promote positive attitudes • Utilize all resources • Reduce complaints • Members share ideas • Less confusion • Shared goals • Foster TEAM building

17. Manager or Leader • Managers take charge, leaders let go • Managers instruct, leaders inspire • Managers control, leaders empower

18. Leadership and/or Management Leadership • Vision • Create • Spontaneous • Innovation • Inspires • Does the right thing • Develops • Looks beyond horizon • Chosen Management • Efficient • Optimizes present • Administers • Accepts • Controls • Does things right • Maintains • Watches bottom line • Appointed

19. Role of the Leader • Demonstrate Vulnerability • Exercise Restraint • Become comfortable with a potentially wrong decision • Promote accountability • Set the tone to focus on shared results

20. Exemplary Leadership • Model the Way • Inspire a Shared Vision • Challenge the Process • Enable Others to Act • Encourage the Heart Kouzes & Posner

21. Model the Way • Spend time • Work collaboratively • Recognize value of team • Be visible • Clarify values • Ask questions • Set example

22. Inspire a Shared Vision • Know your team • Speak their language • Understand their dream • Forge unity of purpose • Imagine a creative vision • Ignite the flame of passion • Recognize group vision

23. Challenge the Process • Venture out of your comfort zone • Look for opportunities to innovate, create and enhance • Commit to lifelong learning • Take a risk • Learn from successes and failures

24. Enable Others to Act • Open the door • Set others up for success • Share power • Promote strength and capability • Enlist others • Trust the team to over-perform

25. Encourage the Heart • Recognition • Appreciation • Passion • Authenticity

26. Common Threads and Characteristics? • Integrity • Courage • Dedication • Forward Looking • Persistence • Resilience • Credibility • Situational Awareness • Emotional Intelligence • Critical Self-Reflection

28. Attitudiology • The librarian of our past • The speaker of our present • The prophet of our future

29. Attitudes are Contagious!

30. Are you an Influence? Or an Influenza?

31. Attitude Axioms • Our attitude determines • Our approach to life • Our relationships with people • Our outlook • Our behaviors • Our altitude

32. Attitude and Life • Expectations • Optimism • Pessimism • Behaviors • Make the world go away • Raindrops keep falling on my head • I did it my way • Oh what a beautiful morning

36. Attitude as Change Agent • Obstacle • Great leaders arise in times of crisis • Opportunity • “There is plenty of security in the cemetery; I long for opportunity” David Sarnoff

37. Attitude and YOU The last of the human freedoms is to choose your attitudein any given set of circumstances! Victor Frankl

38. Those who think they can and those who think they can’t, they are both right – Henry Ford

41. Think About Icebergs

42. What Do You See?

43. Attitude Iceberg Knowledge and skills Attitude

44. You Do The Math! = 82 = 96 = 98 = 100

45. Bad Attitudes • Compound faster than good ones • Failure to forgive • Disease of me • Critic • HURTS

46. Attitude Obstacles • Discouragement • Change • Problems • Fear • Failure

47. Your Attitude…Your Choice • Do you know your attitude • Are you able to manage your attitude • How does your attitude project

48. John Maxwell • The Difference Maker • Allow it to make a difference • Manage your decisions • Keep adversity from dampening your attitude • Help others discover their difference maker

49. Curing Childhood Cancer… One Cup at a Time!

50. What About YOUR Attitude • Take responsibility for your attitude • Evaluate your present attitude • Develop the desire to change • Change your attitude by changing your thoughts • Develop good habits • Manage your attitude daily