The Leadership Challenge Are YOU Up For It?

Dr John Sedgewick,

Director Nursing Education & Development ,

King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center,

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

&

Dr Helen Noble,

Senior Lecturer Health Services Research,

Queen's University Belfast, Ireland

James Kouzes & Barry Posner – The Leadership

Challenge

• The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® are the practices and behaviours that strong leaders demonstrate

• Includes Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart.

• Each of these practices contains behaviours that effective leaders regularly practice.

• Clarify values by finding your voice and affirming shared values.

• Set example by aligning actions with shared vales.

• Leaders must be clear about their guiding principles.• Speaking clearly about what they believe.• Forge agreements about a common set of principles and ideas

that make the organisation unique and distinctive.• They practice what they preach.• Show others by example that they live by the values they

profess.• Their behaviour earns them respect.• Consistency of word and deed that builds a leaders credibility.

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• Envision the future by imagining exciting and ennobling possibilities.

• Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations.

• Leaders passionately believe that they can make a difference.

• They envision the future, creating an ideal and unique image of what the organization can become.

• Through their magnetism and quiet persuasion, leaders enlist others in their dreams.

• They breathe life into their visions and get people to see exciting possibilities for the future.

Inspire a shared vision

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• Search for opportunities by seizing the initiative by looking outward for innovative ways to improve.

• Experiment and take risks by consistently generating small wins and learning from experience.

• Leaders search for opportunities to change the status quo.

• They look for innovative ways to improve the organization. In doing so, they experiment and take risks.

• Leaders know that risk taking involves mistakes and failures, they accept the inevitable disappointments as learning opportunities.

Challenge the process

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• Foster collaboration by building trust and facilitating relationships

• Strengthen others by increasing self-determination and developing competence

• Leaders foster collaboration and build spirited teams. • They actively involve others. • Leaders understand that mutual respect is what sustains

extraordinary efforts.• They strive to create an atmosphere of trust and human

dignity. • They strengthen others, making each person feel capable

and powerful.

Enable others to act

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• Recognize contributions by showing appreciation for individual excellence

• Celebrate the values and victories by creating a spirit of community

• Accomplishing extraordinary things in organizations is hard work.

• To keep hope and determination alive, leaders recognize contributions that individuals make.

• In every winning team, the members need to share in the rewards of their efforts, so leaders celebrate accomplishments.

• They make people feel like heroes.

Encourage the heart

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SANDRA EMMA

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