Aisha Holloway met with the MSc ANP students this week as she has been spending some time away from Nursing Studies. Here she shares some reflections on being back with the students.

‘It was great to see them all again. I have missed them since giving up the Programme Director role in January. They are flourishing and are developing into confident young nurse change-makers. The focus of the conversation today was on reflections from my recent time at Harvard Business School and sharing my wonderful experiences there with Professor Bill George and colleagues. The importance of relationship building, communication, moving from ‘I’ to ‘We’, how we ‘manage’ our need to over-achieve, creating opportunities and knowing ourselves were all elements we touched on today. These are nurses who are our future, the next generation that are full of passion, we need to channel that passion and let them fly.

Their work for the next couple of weeks is to write their life’s journey and identify the crucibles. This was an exercise I did whilst at Harvard and was a very powerful one. More so when asked to write what my life’s journey would look life in the next 5 years. This was the first key step in exploring my True North as part of my Authentic Leadership programme. I hoped that the students would take this task on board and use it to get a sense of who they really are and how their Authentic Leadership is shaped by their crucibles. For next session we are going to concentrate on how we can impact during ‘Challenging’ conversations.

Pause for thought at the end of today’s session “The conversations we are not having, begin to define how we live”. Let’s start having these conversations!

Thanks for sharing Aisha, I hope we can all start having these conversations!

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