New Graduate Leadership Excellence Award
HUMILITY and INTEGRITY:
• Displays honesty, virtuosity and trustworthiness
• Displays humility in action and behaviour with other leaders and peers
• Consistently elevates the level of dialogue in conversations about nursing, leadership
and change
COURAGE, COMMITTMENT and COMPASSION:
• Seeks to ‘understand’, displaying insight into the complexities of leadership
• Works to be the change they wish to see while being sensitive to the impact of
change on others
• Volunteers consistently for organizational events and demonstrates outstanding
support of peer leaders
• Works to enact change through initiative, perseverance, determination, persistence,
resilience, passion, self-motivation and the inspiration of others
• Consistently applies authenticity, caring, empathy, sensitivity and responsiveness in
interactions with all colleagues and peer leaders
KNOWLEDGE and LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE:
• Displays a sound knowledge of the issues related to professional role transition and
imparts that knowledge with confidence and a sensitivity to the specific needs of the
target group
• Demonstrates a commitment to regional, national or global new graduate issues and
NTF, acting to advance the nursing profession by optimizing their foundational
knowledge of new graduate transition and contemporary nursing issues
• Practices their leadership with consistent attention to excellence
• Displays exemplar growth in leadership ability and capacity over time