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The
Amy V. Cockcroft Nursing Leadership Program, established
in 1995 through the generous gift and visionary leadership
of Amy V. Cockcroft, is a one year program that provides
fellows with opportunities to gain personal insight,
experiences, skills, and relationships necessary to become
effective leaders. Program faculties provide expertise in
strategic vision, negotiation and conflict resolution,
managing change and resiliency, effective communication,
and health care policy. Multiple interactive strategies,
including didactic exercises, role play, video taping, and
real time feedback, are used to enhance learning and
identify each Fellow’s unique opportunities for growth.
In addition, each fellow is expected to complete a leadership project. The
leadership project provides an opportunity to expand or
influence health care policies or processes at the local,
state, or national level. This may be an individual or
group project. The Fellows also develop as a group, a
legacy project to enhance and extend the Amy V. Cockcroft
Nursing Leadership Development Program. Presentations of
these projects occur at the annual Nursing Summit, held
in late March or early April.
The
year long program consists of five, three day sessions.
The introductory session provides fellows an opportunity
to get to know one another. Visionary Leadership and
Personal Leadership Strength and Styles are the focus of
the second session and provide a foundation for the
remainder of the program. Identifying their personal
leadership style allows the fellows to understand how
their style impacts those around them. Fellow have peers;
superiors and subordinates complete a Developmental Needs
Tool, which provides valuable information as to how the
fellow is perceived by others. Session 3 takes fellows
through negotiating skills and conflict resolution. Each
fellow identifies their dominant way of handling conflicts
and strategies for negotiating. Managing at the speed of
change, resiliency, and outcomes based communication are
the issues discussed in Session 4. During this session,
each fellow is video taped as they role play an outcome
based communication. Group feedback provides both
personal insight and an opportunity for refinement of
communication skills during strategic conversations.
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