The Global Nursing Leadership Competency Framework
Sigma's Global Nursing Leadership Competency Framework helps nurses evaluate their leadership strengths, set goals, and grow as leaders at every career stage.
Leading at Every Career Stage
You have the capacity to lead at every career stage, in every specialty, and in every setting. Your leadership impacts your local healthcare community and ripples outward to shape global health.
Sigma’s Global Nursing Leadership Competency Framework, developed by nurse leaders worldwide and supported by the Johnson & Johnson Foundation, turns that leadership into something you can see, measure, and grow.
Who Uses the Framework
Individual Nurses
Advance Your Leadership
Assess your strengths, set goals, and build a personalized leadership development plan.
Clinical Employers
Develop Your Team
Establish professional development goals and incorporate leadership competencies into employee development plans.
Educators
Strengthen Nursing Education
Evaluate curricula and integrate leadership competencies into courses and academic programs.
The 10 Leadership Competencies
Leadership isn’t a title. It’s a skillset you build and demonstrate throughout your career.
Sigma's Global Nursing Leadership Competency Framework helps you assess your strengths, identify growth opportunities, and lead with confidence.
These competencies include the knowledge areas nurse leaders use to do their work, at all levels of development.
- Strategy in Leading Self & Others
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Transformation and Change
- Evidence-Based Decision Making
- Governance
- Professional Ethics
These competencies are the perspectives nurse leaders bring to their work across domains. Lenses inform practice and decision-making in all levels of leadership.
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Systems Thinking
- Political Savvy
Before downloading, you will be asked to provide basic information about yourself so Sigma Nursing can better understand how the framework is being used and how it can be improved. This information will only be shared with Sigma Nursing leadership and will not be used for marketing purposes.
Continue Your Leadership Journey
The Global Nursing Leadership Competency Framework is available for noncommercial use only.
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