The Award:
Anna May Driscoll was one of the founders of Emerge Education, an Irish Organization Development consultancy that works internationally with Blue Chip companies. The consultancy specialises in Leadership and Organization Development. Emerge Education established the Anna May Driscoll Foundation in memory of its founding partner to promote the concept of Responsibility Based Leadership that she created. The purpose of the foundation is to foster the application of Responsibility Based Leadership© in hospitals and other health service organisations.
Purpose of the Award:
The purpose of the award is to recognise Responsibility Based Leadership™ taken by Nursing Staff within University Hospital Galway. Encouraging nursing staff to take Leadership on their own responsibility over and above the normal call of their duties, the award takes the form of a bursary to enable the winner to invest in their further education and learning. Any member of the nursing staff can be nominated by her/his colleagues by illustrating how the nominee has shown Responsibility Based Leadership.The initial bursary is made available to nursing staff who have worked in the Cancer Services at Galway University during 2008. Responsibility Based Leadership™ was a core concept developed by Anna May Driscoll a founding Partner in Emerge an international management consultancy. It was based in part in her own experiences as a nurse in the NHS in the 1960’s.
Responsibility Based Leadership’s core principles are firstly that leadership does not come from role or position but is a choice that a person makes to behave as a leader. Secondly, the person takes responsibility for the world around them and not just their own small area. Thirdly, that they take leadership from their expertise and this enables them to challenge across the organisation and up and down the hierarchy.
Ciarán Dyar presenting the award to Elaine Gaffey
Colleagues, from Galway University Hospital, nominated Elaine Gaffey for the award. The purpose of the award is to encourage Nursing Staff to take Leadership on their own responsibility over and above the normal call of their duties. It recognises Responsibility Based Leadership™ taken by Nursing Staff within University Hospital Galway.
The award takes the form of a bursary to enable the winner to invest in their further education and learning. Any member of the nursing staff can be nominated by her/his colleagues by illustrating how the nominee has shown Responsibility Based Leadership. Nominees were interviewed to establish how they would use the award to build their learning and Leadership skills. The panel was delighted with the strong Responsibility Based Leadership™ skills shown by all the nominees and declared that any one of them could have been a winner, but ultimately decided that Elaine Gaffey displayed the best combination of taking responsibility and capability of using the bursary to build her knowledge and skills. The award was presented by Ciarán Dyar, Anna May's son.
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Ciarán Dyar and winner Elaine Gaffey
Ciarán Dyar and runner-up Patrick Browne
Elaine Gaffey, Ciarán Dyar and Colette Cowan,
Director of Nursing
Elaine Gaffey, Damien Dyar and Ciarán Dyar
Marie Cox, Assistant Director of Nursing, Elaine
Gaffey and Ciarán Dyar
Colette Cowan, Director of Nursing
Ciarán Dyar presenting the award to Michelle McNamara
Candidates for the award were nominated by their colleagues, based on the Leadership skills which they exhibited in the course of their work. Nominees were then interviewed to establish how they would use the award to build their learning and Leadership skills. For the second year running the standard of Responsibility Based Leadership© skills shown by all the nominees was very high, but the panel ultimately chose Ms. McNamara as having displayed the best combination of taking responsibility and capability of using the bursary to build her knowledge and skills. The award was presented by Ciarán Dyar, Anna-May Driscoll’s son.
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Ciarán Dyar and runner-up Anne O'Rourke
Ciarán Dyar and Mary McHugh, Director of Nursing
Ciarán Dyar, Michelle McNamara, Mary McHugh and
Damien Dyar
Damian Dyar presenting the award to Sharon Cassidy
Nomination for this award was made based on the Leadership exhibited by candidates in their day to day work at Galway University Hospital. Each nominee was interviewed to find out how the candidate would use the award to build their learning and Leadership skills. The panel was delighted with the strong Responsibility Based Leadership© skills shown by all the nominees and declared that any one of them could have been a winner, but ultimately decided that Sharon Cassidy displayed the best combination of taking responsibility and capability of using the bursary to build her knowledge and skills. The award was made by Damien Dyar, Anna-May Driscoll’s partner.
This initial bursary has been piloted in cooperation with University Hospital Galway to promote the continuing development of Nurses at the hospital.
A full report is available from the Clare Champion website or alternatively in a PDF version.