The Leadership Trajectory

Designed to help you excel at every stage of your leadership path, this unique and practical text is organized around a nursing and health care leadership trajectory of three core areas - The Strategies, The Personal, and The Environment. The Strategies covers necessary actions that you need to take to become more influential in any environment to move yourself and your people to greater contributions. The Personal relates to the concepts that you must develop and hone to increase your influence. The Environment reinforces how you can exercise the strategies and personal factors in this leadership model through assessing the situations in which you find yourself.

• Reflection questions
• in each chapter emphasize the importance of the process being discussed as a strategy for growth and to facilitate active reading.
• LL Alert! boxes cite examples of actions and statements to avoid.
• LL Lineup summaries at the end of each chapter help you create an action plan related to the chapter topic.
• Practical approach features straightforward, concise content that addresses only the most relevant information on the subject of each chapter.
• The Strategies covers necessary actions that you need to take to become more influential in any environment to move yourself and your people to greater contributions.
• The Personal relates to the concepts that you must develop and hone to increase your influence.
• The Environment reinforces how you can exercise the strategies and personal factors in this model through assessing the situations in which you find yourself.

About the Authors

Patricia Yoder-Wise - Dr. Yoder-Wise is professor and Dean Emerita at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and she also teaches for the University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston. She has taught in every type of nursing education program from nursing assistant through doctoral and continuing education. She is an author (e.g., Leading and Managing in Nursing and leadership/competence articles), editor (e.g., The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing /Nursing Forum), and serves as president of the Wise Group. Dr. Yoder-Wise is a past president of the Texas Nurses Association, American Nurses Credentialing Center, and CGEAN. She is currently the President of the National League for Nursing.

Susan Sportsman - Dr. Sportsman is a new co-author on this title. She has worked as a medical-surgical and psychiatric nurse in hospitals and in the community; she has been a teacher and an administrator in both service and education; and she has consulted for a broad spectrum of colleges and universities throughout North America. Most recently she served as Director of Consulting Services at Elsevier's Education Division. Prior to that she held positions as Dean of the College of Health Science and Human Services at Midwestern State University; Associate Dean of Nursing at Texas Tech University; and Vice President, Mental Health Programs at Harris Methodist Health System. Dr Sportsman has contributed to the Yoder-Wise text in previous editions, and she is now ready to take on the role as co-author with Pat Yoder-Wise.