Nursing Managment Styles

Managing and leading are two different ways of organizing people to reach a common goal. Leadership styles are used to set a direction that is vision based for a group, organization to follow in attempt to reach a desired result. Example, a clinical manager can you his/her leadership traits to spearheads a new attitude that promotes the health and wellbeing of their patients and staff. On the other hand, managers control and direct people/resources within a group or organization according to principles or values that have already been established by the leadership team. The managers tend to use a formal, rational method while the leader uses passion and stimulates emotions to move the group/organization in the right direction.
My leadership style is a combination of different styles; (affiliate and democratic) depending on the situation at hand. I use the affiliate leadership style when I need to emphasize harmony and acceptance of difference between the staff. I use the democratic style to emphasize teamwork and commitment to work at hand to meet the objectives for the patients and doctors.
I feel solid leadership is within your reach if you actively work to develop your leadership styles and manager skills can greatly enhance your chances for success and gaining the respect and trustworthiness from your subordinates. People naturally and willingly follow leaders due to their charisma and personality traits, whereas a manager is obeyed due to the formal authority vested in him/her. Based on this overlapping occurrence; you can be both as long as you understand how to walk this tight-rope.

Visionary Leadership Style Supervisors were of the opinion that today; nurse managers use a more visionary leadership style than previously. In the past, many organizations lacked a vision of their own and had fewer possibilities to engage in development for the future. Even now, the skills of nurse managers to lead visionary development work varied.
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