Hello and welcome. I'm excited you're joining me in the third course of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Leadership and Nursing Informatics Specialization. My name is Daniel Pesut, and I am the instructor for this course. Currently, I'm a Professor of Nursing and Director of the Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. I'm excited to share with you concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics to support your nursing informatics leadership success. Knowledge gained in this course will give you the tools, tips, and insights to deepen your leadership skill set. This knowledge will help you navigate complexity and lead successfully in the world of nursing informatics. Leadership is about aligning people, processes, and purpose. Leadership is about being flexible. Leadership involves Requisite Variety. The law of Requisite Variety suggests the agent in a system with the most flexibility has the greatest influence in the system. Leaders realize that to solve complex problems, they need Requisite Variety in their leadership practices. Leadership is about mastery, chemistry, and delivery. Mastery requires managing polarities and competing values in different organizational cultures. The specific objectives of this course are to describe the knowledge complexity archetype, to gain insight into the informatics leadership competencies needed for successful knowledge management and leadership in an organization. Evaluate leadership styles for effective leadership in nursing informatics in clinical or academic contexts to improve your leadership success. Discover core values that support effective nursing informatics leadership in academic and clinical contexts to inform the development of a personal leadership mission statement. To discover polarities and competing values associated with knowledge complexity, to gain understanding of ways to address nursing informatics leadership challenges. To determine your personal informatics leadership style using the Minnesota Informatics Leadership Inventory, to inform your planning for personal development of leadership skills, and to discuss the value of foresight leadership in nursing informatics to anticipate trends and consequences likely to impact and transform future healthcare systems. This course is for nurses and healthcare clinicians and educators who want to deepen their knowledge and understanding of effective leadership. In the first course, Dr. Monsen introduced you to the competing values framework and the Minnesota Nursing Informatics Leadership Inventory. In the second course, Dr. Westra introduced you to Nursing Informatics Pioneers and Leaders. In this course, you will deepen your knowledge and insights about leadership by working through a set of learning activities designed to expand your knowledge about leadership theories, practices, and behaviors. You will explore core values and deliberate how your values inform your leadership philosophy and mission statement. You will create a personal leadership mission statement based on your core values. You will explore different organizational cultures and leadership behaviors useful for dealing with challenges related to knowledge complexity, polarities and competing values. You will review the results of your Minnesota Nursing Leadership Informatics Inventory and analyze your personal report to gain insights about how you prefer to apply leadership skills in nursing informatics scenarios across four types of cultures. In module five, you will be introduced to the concept of foresight leadership to develop your future forecasting skills. Foresight is a skill that supports anticipation of future trends and consequences in the world of nursing and health. By the end of this course, you will clarify your value-based philosophy and leadership style, you will gain insights into the nature of polarities, competing values, and organizational tensions, you will learn about the requisite variety leaders need to employ with complex problems in order to be successful, and finally, your foresight leadership and future literacy skills will be activated. Are you ready? Let's get started.