COACHING AND MENTORING: PREPARING TOMORROW’S LEADERS
The internal workforce already has much of the company’s intellectual capital, and the Nurse Manager Boot Camp helps define and refine it so the organization can start growing its own future. This is called leadership development and succession planning. To do it right, current leaders need to be inspirational, generous-hearted coaches for tomorrow’s leaders! Learn what coaching is and how it should be applied every day in the workplace, as well as skills that will make you an effective coach facilitating career management and professional job satisfaction among your teammates.

TRANSITIONS IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Moving from a tight knit group of fellow staff nurses to a fuller group of relationships throughout the organization is a real challenge. New competencies need to be learned, and change does not always come easily. In this module, we examine issues at the individual, unit and organizational levels. This same learning will be applied to transitions along the professional growth continuum. Participants also explore competencies, new and shared, using the Arizona Leadership Initiative. The six competencies examined are Conceptual, Technical, Interpersonal, Commercial, Political and Governance.

STRATEGIC PLANNING: FROM PROCESS TO PERFORMANCE
Participation in strategic planning helps Managers focus on the organization’s vision and priorities—it also helps assure that all departments and personnel are working toward the same goal. Using group process techniques, decision making tools that integrate critical thinking and accountability plans, you’ll learn how to begin the strategic planning process, recognize the organizational barriers to planning and negotiate a realistic, achievable, strategic plan for your nursing unit(s). Participants will learn how to map their strategies for getting things done through the hands-on use of practical Strategy Maps. First, the
importance of Front-Line Managers on work environment and patient safety is emphasized through the examination of several studies such as the Hay Group Study, the research-based studies of Linda Aiken, the Nurseweek Study and University of Arizona Study. Having laid the groundwork for the strategic role nurse managers play, faculty then introduce strategic thinking, using Norton and Kaplan’s strategy maps. Then, participants look at their own units from a strategic level, starting with vision and including financial, customer, process and organization learning components.

I. Human Capital Management

II. Leadership

III. Financial Management

IV. Culture & Organizations

V. Career & Self Development