What does it mean when you don’t see yourself as a leader?

It means you’re not contributing all of your talents to your organization.

You’re suffering from self-doubt and you’re not having the impact that you could have because you don’t see yourself as a leader.

You know what you should be doing and that may be from preconceived notions that we’ve heard about what it actually means to be a leader.

You hear phrases like “They were born to lead” but you don’t feel that way about yourself.

If you’ve gotten to this point in your career, here are the reasons you don’t see yourself as a leader.

A struggle that some leaders face is their team not having the courage to speak up about things they witness.

It is detrimental to an organization when people see things that are wrong but don’t speak up about them and a huge part of that is caused by you, their leader.

This is an interesting question that I get asked often.

Of course women can be good leaders.

As a matter of fact, when we don’t have enough women leaders, it creates many challenges., especially in industries where women are the majority employee.

About 80% of the healthcare industry consists of women.

It should not even be questioned if women make good leaders.

Nursing has a hierarchy.

It usually starts as bing an RN then working up to be a charge nurse.

Then charge nurses turn into a nursing management role.

From there, it’s a long journey to become a nursing director and an even longer journey to become a senior level executive.

Ultimately, the goal is to be a chief nursing officer.

Right now, that pathway is shorter than were it Neds to be.

Why? Because the American healthcare system is in a crisis.

It’s in a crisis of epic proportions.