Management & Leadership in Community Nursing RCN Career Fair 11 September 2013 Shirley Baah-Mensah Service lead & Consultant Leadership & Career success.

Management & Management & Leadership in Leadership in Community Community

NursingNursing

RCN Career FairRCN Career Fair11 September 201311 September 2013

Shirley Baah-MensahShirley Baah-MensahService lead & ConsultantService lead & Consultant

Leadership & Career success Leadership & Career success

ObjectivesObjectives• To understand the concept of

Management and leadership

• To understand the manager’s role in supporting nurses and protecting patients amid NHS reform and transition

• To acquire the techniques necessary for effective management & leadership in community nursing

Management Vs LeadershipManagement Vs LeadershipManagement tells vision Leadership sells it• makes rules breaks • Makes decision facilitates• Avoids conflict uses• Uses existing road new • Transactional Transformational

• Likes stability change• Plans details sets directions

Management Vs LeadershipManagement Vs Leadership

•Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

Peter Drucker Warren Bennis

The need for good The need for good managers / leadersmanagers / leaders

•Flatter organisations•Decreased number of managers•New / innovative ways of

working•Self directed teams•Personal computers / networks•High stress environment

Influencing FactorsInfluencing FactorsExternal Internal • Reorganisation Resilience

• Reconfiguration Focus

• Policy change Stability

Your role as a managerYour role as a manager• Manage & Develop capable teams• Provide quality services to patients• Improve services • Build effective relationships within

and across organisations• Lead innovation and change• Manage risk about own role and

job

Self managementSelf management• Own learning and development

• Career aspirations

• Personal development plans for the future

• Health & well being

Leadership in nursingLeadership in nursing

•Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to achieve a common goal

Kings Fund May 2011

Self Leadership Self Leadership

• Self Awareness• Self Management• Continuing Personal

Development• Acting with Integrity

Leadership Qualities Leadership Qualities

Professional leadershipProfessional leadershipNHS leadership frameworkNHS leadership framework

Who are the leaders in Who are the leaders in your teams?your teams?

• Acts of leadership can come from anyone within your organisation and as a model it emphasises the responsibility of all staff in demonstrating appropriate behaviours, in seeking to contribute to the leadership process and to develop and empower the leadership capacity of colleagues.

Leading othersLeading others• Developing Networks• Building and Maintaining

Relationships• Encouraging Contribution• Working within Teams• Encouraging creativity and diversity

Setting directionSetting direction• Identifying the Context for Change• Applying Knowledge and Evidence• Making Decisions• Evaluating Impact• Ensuring Patient Safety• Critically Evaluating• Encouraging Improvement and Innovation• Facilitating Transformation

Great leadersGreat leaders• have personal humility• are professional• motivated to produce sustainable results, • Look out the window to attribute success,

in the mirror when things go wrong• Many people have the potential to be top

leaders• Most Leaders are in front of you!!

What next?What next?

Contact Shirley [email protected]

Questions?Questions?