Leadership: by the pros, for the novice

Leadership, communication, motivation and conflict resolution strategies shared during Leadership Day gave new meaning to these theoretical concepts. Leadership Day proved to be an effective teaching strategy for socializing our nursing leadership students into the real world of today's nursing. This united effort between leaders in practice and leaders in education enhanced the success of this proactive approach. The presenters' personification of nursing leadership and management concepts, as well as the descriptions of specific "how to" strategies, provided a valuable ingredient for reinforcing the theoretical concepts. Leadership Day was so successful that we began making plans immediately to expand the event to include all senior nursing students the following year.