The Nurse Leader Coach: Become the Boss No One Wants to Leave

by Rose O. Sherman

Whether you are just beginning your leadership career or are a seasoned expert, leadership in nursing today is challenging. Staff turnover is on the rise. What nurses expect from their leaders has changed. Being an effective manager is no longer enough. Staff expects more than an annual performance evaluation. To win the talent war and become the boss that no one wants to leave, you need to add individualized coaching to your leadership toolbox. Effective coaching is strengths-based, engagement focused and performance-oriented. Wise leaders recognize that when the needs of the workforce change, they must adopt new leadership strategies to become employers of choice. The author, a nationally known leadership development expert, breaks down the essential skills and behaviors that leaders need today to develop a coaching mindset and let your staff thrive. The book includes coaching examples and practical strategies that can quickly move you from feeling stressed and overwhelmed to feeling confident in your role. You will learn how to build a coaching foundation, develop your coaching skills and coach your team to higher levels of performance. The Nurse Leader Coach gives you the tools you need to change from being a manager to a leader coach. Let it be your roadmap and practical guide to becoming the boss that no one wants to leave.

Genres: Leadership

244 pages, Paperback

Published February 3, 2019

Reviews

[Beckie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book nicely brought together many elements of nurse leader coaching as well as other leadership lessons, but I didn't really take away anything new. I will be interested to discuss this with the NEC group to see others' takeaways. I think, and I hope it's true, that I am doing many of the coaching and activities discussed, though there is always room to improve. Since I started my manager position 2 years ago I do feel I've made strides in coaching, and have more work to do.

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Much to my surprise, this was a very easy read. As someone who recently transitioned to a management position, this book provided a lot of insight and specific examples of staffing challenges and how to coach a team. The book provides a lot of examples of questions to ask when a team faces conflict or failures, as well as questions for annual reviews and evaluations. I would highly recommend this to nurse managers or those in leadership positions!

[Estela · Rating 3 out of 5]

In general, I found the information in this book to be very well researched and I know I will refer back to this book often in my nursing career. What I especially appreciate is the Coaching Toolbox of Part 4. What was difficult is the editing of this book. I found many sentences difficult to understand and had to re-read them several times before realizing it was either a redundancy in words, or just a poorly constructed sentence.

[Jeremy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid. An amalgamation of some of the more popular business and leadership books of the last couple decades appropriated to the nursing world. References people like Covey, Sinek, Lencioni, Kouzes and Posner, and others. Good, quick read.

[Bryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a great read and an excellent reference/resource. A must read for everyone who wants to do more than just manage. The author’s insights, from an extensive career, are spot-on. Forget managing, start coaching.

[Nicole Allman · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars for great content on nursing leadership, though it’s self-published and the lack of professional editing was sometimes a bit distracting.

[Ashley Lacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great content but she needs a new editor.