100 - Your Leadership Journey: Invest in Yourself!

The OADN Leadership Development Workshop is a day-long program geared towards aspiring nursing education directors and faculty seeking opportunities to enhance and grow their leadership competencies and skills. This workshop will provide participants with the essentials every leader needs to successfully navigate their leadership journey.

Part I: Attributes of Highly Effective Leaders
Speaker: Mary Dickow, MPA, FAAN
Brief Description: Leadership is said to be the art and science of influencing others. Highly effective leaders rely on key qualities or attributes to enhance their effectiveness. Nursing education leaders are often mapping their own leadership journey while also ensuring the next generation of the workforce is equipped with an understanding of plotting a path to get there. Participants will explore leadership qualities, responsibilities, and resources to craft their unique direction.
Objectives:
• Define critical leadership skills for success.
• Assess personal goals and objectives.
• Create leadership development plan.

Part II: Your Personal Brand: Creating a Message that Resonates
Speaker: Suzanne Miyamoto, PhD, RN, FAAN
Brief description: How you present data, information, evidence, and powerful stories is impacted by the way you present yourself. To advocate well, you have to understand how your style is received and consider your communication approach. To be an effective leader and advocate, balancing your authentic style while being able to "read the room" is an invaluable skill that will help you connect with your intended audience. From the boardroom to Capitol Hill, this session will help you create a message that resonates.
Objectives:
• Understand key tenants of advocacy that are effective in presenting a strong and effective message.
• Examine communication strategies and apply them across different scenarios of when a leader will be called to make an advocacy pitch.
• Assess your own personal brand and how it affects your leadership presence.

Part III: Forming and Fostering Professional Identity
Speaker: Nelda Godfrey, PhD, ACNS-BC, RN, FAAN, ANEF
Brief Description: Forming and Fostering Professional Identity is a sense of what it means to think, act and feel like a nurse—and in the pre-licensure educational setting, an intentional approach is needed to clearly communicate what being a nurse professional is all about.
Objectives:
• Explain why a well-defined sense of professional identity is important for any professional.
• Describe 3 strategies for strengthening professional identity in student nurses.

Part IV: Nurse Civility and Why It Matters: The Elephant in the Room
Speakers: Cecelia L. Crawford, DNP, RN, FAAN and Lorie H. Judson, PhD, RN, NP
Brief Description: Hostile behaviors are real phenomena in healthcare. Student and new graduate nurses often experience incivility during clinical rotations and the first year of nursing. This session describes the various components encompassing incivility, as well as survival skills and mitigation strategies. Nurse leaders must have a role as moral agents to effect positive change to academic institutions, healthcare systems, and ultimately to the nursing profession.
Objectives:
• Discuss how nurse incivility is unique for the student and the new graduate nurse.
• Describe 3 strategies that have the potential to prevent nurse-to-nurse incivility and bullying.
• Outline 2 key survival skills to mitigate hostile behaviors in the workplace.

Part V: The Mentoring Imperative: Giving and Receiving the Gift
Speaker: Janis P. Bellack, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF
Brief Description: This session will focus on the value of mentoring – being a mentor (giving) and being a mentee (receiving) – as a gift and imperative for a successful and satisfying professional career. Strategies for establishing and nurturing effective mentoring relationships will be explored. Participants will develop a personal mentoring plan that reflects their own mentoring goals, either to give or receive the gift of mentoring.
Objectives:
• Differentiate between mentoring and other roles, e.g., teaching, advising, coaching.
• Articulate at least two strategies for establishing and nurturing an effective mentor relationship, either as a mentor or mentee.
• Develop a short-term personal mentoring plan that reflects your own goals.