Our work

The forum steering committee held their annual strategy day meeting on 9 February 2021, read the notes of the meeting and the latest strategic objective plan.

The 2022 strategy day was held in March. The notes are pending but we are pleased to confirm the continuation in 2022 of the Emergent Leaders and the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion work streams.

This poster showcases our evaluation of the past, current and future work of the RCN Nurses in Management and Leadership Forum Emerging Leaders project, which aims to promote the identity and confidence of developing leaders to assume leadership positions through engaging with stakeholders across the nursing family. We are already seeing the benefits of engaging with students and have worked with key influencers to contribute to future educational curricula.

The work of the Emerging Leaders project as depicted in the poster captures the most current contemporary evidence (Council of Deans 2018, Nursing Now 2020), highlighting the importance of increasing the confidence of nurses to recognise their potential as leaders, with core skills and competencies such as: role modelling, emotional intelligence, motivational and organisational skills, courage, the ability to voice concerns and have difficult conversations. 

As a Forum committee our role is to work on behalf of our Forum Membership and collaborate with the other Professional Forums to have an informed viewpoint on the contemporary challenges in leadership and management. Our voice is reflecting and speaks for our members. Our expertise comes from our practice areas, professional experience and through what our members experiences. The committee will focus its efforts sin 2020 in two priority areas:

• Equality inclusion and diversity
• Emerging leaders whether new into post or developing their leadership identity throughout their career pathway

The majority of our work is delivered through social media platforms. We have an active presence on Twitter and Facebook, contributing to the debates in our priority areas through Blogs, articles, podcasts, and webinars. We have an active presence at Congress, materials are available on this page and via the RCN recordings of Congress.

Your views and contributions are important to us, we are after all here to represent your views and support you in your development needs as far as is possible. Reflecting your views and issues we will also contribute to formal RCN consultation and reviews. Please connect with us via social media. We look forward to working on your behalf in raising the profile all aspects of our management and leadership responsibilities as nurses.

Watch the recording of this event, which took place on 4 November 2020.