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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.

Designed to help nurses excel at every stage of your leadership path, The Leadership Trajectory: Developing Legacy Leaders-Ship, 2nd Edition, follows a five-element framework that addresses the core attributes of a leader - character, commitment, connectedness, compassion and confidence. This unique and practical text offers strategic guidance on the actions you need to take to become more influential in any environment to move yourself and your team to greater contributions. Nurses will learn how to develop the skills, mindset, and aptitude to succeed regardless of where you are in your position, setting or education journey.The authors are pleased to donate all royalty proceeds to the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, to further its mission of providing resources that create opportunities to bridge science and practice to shape the future of nursing leadership.