Cultivating Belongingness: An Essential Leadership Skill
Lead with intention. Strengthen connection. Build cohesive, high-performing teams.
This 1.0 contact hour, on-demand course offers a practical path forward.
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You entered nursing to make a difference...
You did NOT step into leadership to manage disconnection.
You stepped in to build strong teams.
To create environments where people feel respected, engaged, and able to do their best work.
And yet…
Somewhere along the way, it started to feel harder than it should.
• You’re trying, but nothing seems to shift in a meaningful, lasting way.
• Your team feels disengaged, and you’re not sure what will actually make a difference.
• You lack the resources for another “initiative” that adds pressure without solving the problem.
You’re not alone.
And you’re not doing it wrong.
You’ve likely just never been given a clear, practical way to lead belongingness.
This course is designed to change that.
What This Course Is About
Cultivating Belongingness: An Essential Leadership Skill is a 1.0 contact hour, on-demand webinar designed for nurse leaders who want to strengthen connection, engagement, and culture without adding unsustainable expectations to their role.
This is not about being nicer.
And it’s not about adding more to your already full plate.
It’s about learning how to create the conditions where people can show up, contribute, and stay.
In today’s healthcare environments, leaders are navigating:
• Increasing workload and competing demands
• Emotional exhaustion and lingering strain from sustained pressure
• Teams that feel fragmented, transactional, or disconnected
When belongingness is strained, it shows up as:
• Disengagement and low morale
• Fractured relationships and communication breakdowns
• Reduced trust, collaboration, and psychological safety
• Increased turnover, and leaders carrying the weight of it
This isn’t a motivation problem.
It’s a relational and cultural problem that requires a different kind of leadership clarity.
When belongingness is intentionally cultivated:
• People engage more fully in their work
• Teams communicate more openly and effectively
• Trust and psychological safety increase
• Retention, satisfaction, and collaboration improve
Belongingness is not an extra. It is the condition that allows people and teams to perform at their best and leaders stop feeling like they are holding everything together alone.
A clear, evidence-informed approach
This course provides a grounded, practical framework for understanding belongingness as a leadership competency, not an abstract concept.
Drawing from research, clinical and academic experience, and coaching-informed strategies, you will learn how to:
• Understand what belongingness is—and what it is not
• Recognize the characteristics of belonging-rich environments
• Connect belongingness to measurable outcomes like engagement and retention
• Identify realistic, leader-driven actions within your sphere of influence
Clear language, practical insight, and actions you can actually apply.
What makes this course different?
This is not another culture training that leaves you with ideas but no traction.
This course is designed to:
• Translate complex concepts into clear, usable leadership language
• Respect the real constraints leaders are working within
• Focus on what is actually within your control
• Support sustainable, human-centered leadership, not self-sacrifice
Course Experience
• One contact hour
• On-demand, self-paced webinar (60 minutes)
• Recorded presentation with slides and guided reflection
• Downloadable workbook included
• Post-test and evaluation required for contact hour
Your Expertise Is Enough
This is not a motivational talk or a quick-fix solution.
It is a grounded, evidence-informed learning experience that:
• Gives language to what many nurses experience but cannot name
• Offers practical tools you can apply immediately
• Supports ethical clarity and professional integrity
• Strengthens resilience and sustainable practice
Imagine Leading With...
✓ Greater clarity about how to influence culture in meaningful ways
✓ Practical strategies that fit within your real-world constraints
✓ Stronger connection, trust, and engagement on your team
✓ A renewed sense of purpose and confidence in your leadership
Ready to lead with intention, strengthen connection and build cohesive, high-performing teams?
If you’re navigating disengagement, disconnection, or culture strain and you want a way forward that is grounded, practical, and sustainable, this course will meet you there.
Enroll today for $29 and earn 1.0 contact hours.
1.0 Contact Hour For RNs, LPNs, APRNs:
Maureen Metzger is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Florida State Board of Nursing. This course offering is approved for 1.0 contact hours applicable for APRN, RN or LPN relicensure. Florida State Board of Nursing Provider Number: 50-53447.
Course Description:
Belongingness is a foundational, yet often underdeveloped, leadership competency in nursing practice environments. As nurse leaders navigate increasing complexity, workforce strain, and rising expectations for performance and professionalism, many teams are experiencing erosion of connection, reflected in low morale, disengagement, fractured relationships, and difficulty sustaining healthy workplace cultures.
Cultivating belongingness creates the conditions in which individuals and teams can engage meaningfully, uphold professional standards, contribute fully, and thrive over time. Across clinical and academic settings, belongingness is associated with improved collaboration, psychological safety, retention, and overall wellbeing—outcomes that are essential for sustainable nursing leadership.
In this 1.0 contact hour CNE course, participants will explore core concepts related to belongingness, examine characteristics and evidence-based outcomes of environments with high levels of belongingness, and identify realistic, evidence-informed leadership actions that strengthen connection, trust, and engagement.
Emphasis is placed on practical application within leaders’ spheres of influence, recognizing that meaningful culture change is an ongoing process requiring intention, consistency, and shared responsibility.
"It's not the load that breaks you down.
It's the way you carry it."
Lena Horne
Meet Your Guide
Maureen Metzger, PhD, RN, is a nurse, educator, and professional coach with more than four decades of experience in healthcare.
Her clinical background includes extensive work with patients and families facing advanced chronic illness. She is a nurse scientist whose research focused on communication, decision-making, and interventions that empower individuals to participate meaningfully in care.
An award-winning educator and trusted coach to nurses, nurse leaders, and educators nationwide, Maureen integrates evidence-based practice, coaching psychology, and deep respect for the relational heart of nursing.
Her work is grounded in a simple belief: nurses deserve to thrive while doing meaningful work.
Contact her at [email protected]
