There are now several postgraduate courses available across Australia to Registered Nurses for the development of leadership skills. Notably, at the highest levels of policy and governance of the profession, the Australian College of Nursing recently introduced the ‘‘Emerging Nurse Leaders’’ strategy to recognise and develop future generations of leaders in nursing from an undergraduate level (ACN, 2013).At the level of the individual workplace, however, there is still a need for effective strategies for growing the next generation of leaders ‘in-house’. Effective mentoring programmes and the development of cultures of excellence are areas where managers can play a decisive role, and effect something close to the ideal link between leadership and management. This has the potential to ensure a further lessening of the impact of chaos across the full variety of nursing workplaces, and continues the advancement of the profession in terms of practice and status (Dignam et al., 2012).Effective mentoring and formal education programmes for nurse leader development prove a continued challenge to the profession (Dignam et al., 2012).