Weinstock Beth
Beth Weinstock Consulting, One Wynnewood Court, Narberth, PA 19072, USA.
Holist Nurs Pract. 2011 Jul-Aug;25(4):211-4. doi: 10.1097/HNP.0b013e31822270ec.
Leadership coaching is becoming an increasingly important intervention that helps individual nurse executives and managers develop and use the best of their strengths, gifts, and talents. As the need for leadership in nursing becomes urgent and brave souls move into the positions of greater authority and potential impact, they will face challenges as they move up in rank. This article identifies the hidden and often-overlooked challenges that are faced by new leaders as they transition into roles of increased responsibility, and it demonstrates how leadership coaching can help new leaders make successful transitions. As the current health care crisis creates opportunity for new leaders, those who opt for promotions and lateral shifts encounter both expected and surprising challenges. The expected challenges include mastering new content skills, learning new organizational structures, and getting to know new teams. The less obvious stressors include issues of self-esteem, assertiveness, self-consciousness, self-criticism, perfectionism, new boundaries, changing identities, and finding one's own leadership style. These important issues are often kept out of conscious awareness and overlooked at great cost to the individual leader and her institution. Leadership coaching can provide support and practical strategies for managing and overcoming these hidden challenges.
领导力辅导正成为一项日益重要的干预措施，它帮助个体护士高管和管理人员发挥并运用自身的最佳优势、天赋和才能。随着护理领域对领导力的需求变得紧迫，勇敢的人担任更具权威和潜在影响力的职位，他们在晋升过程中将面临挑战。本文指出了新领导者在向责任更大的角色过渡时所面临的隐藏且常被忽视的挑战，并展示了领导力辅导如何帮助新领导者成功过渡。由于当前的医疗保健危机为新领导者创造了机会，那些选择晋升和横向调动的人会遇到预期和意外的挑战。预期的挑战包括掌握新的内容技能、了解新的组织结构以及认识新团队。不太明显的压力源包括自尊、自信、自我意识、自我批评、完美主义、新的界限、身份转变以及找到自己的领导风格等问题。这些重要问题往往不被有意识地察觉，而被忽视，这对个体领导者及其机构造成了巨大代价。领导力辅导可以为应对和克服这些隐藏的挑战提供支持和实用策略。
