Southern Cross University: MNG03217 - The Positive Leader Presentation

This presentation delves into the concept of positive leadership, emphasizing its role in guiding groups toward common objectives. It contrasts positive and negative leadership, focusing on the positive leadership style and the essential characteristics of a leader, such as honesty, delegation, a positive attitude, inspiration, and care. The presentation highlights that care and motivation are crucial for leaders of emotional labourers. It then proposes strategies to enhance the productivity and wellbeing of emotional labourers, including continuous motivation and effective communication. Furthermore, it outlines skill development exercises like training for high work performance, self-motivation practices, healthcare regulation, and interpersonal communication exercises to support the proposed strategies. The conclusion underscores the importance of positive leadership in fostering a supportive environment for employees and aligning organizational objectives with workforce performance.

THE POSITIVE LEADER

Introduction
 Leadership is an act of leading a group of
people towards a common goal or objective.
Leadership has various styles, forms and
ways in which it is conducted. In accordance
to the leadership trait theory there are two
types of leadership which are Positive
leadership and negative leadership. In this
presentation there will be discussion over the
Positive leadership style and characteristics
which are needed by a positive leader to look
after the wellbeing of a Emotional Labourer.

Positive leadership
 Positive leadership can be defined as act
of leadership which contributes to the
organizations and helps the following in
operating under peer pressure of work.
Positive leadership looks of increasing the
performance of the workforce within an
organization to an higher level.

Contd.
 This leadership style is very optimistic in
nature its goes for the opportunities in
bad conditions and is focused on
development in which each individual of
the firm is benefited and developed while
reaching a common goal (Rego et al.
2014).

Different Types of
characteristics of being a leader
Now there are many characteristics which is
needed by a company in order to be an
positive leader and they are as follows:
 Honesty: The leader must to honest in his
or her working style and operation.

Contd.
 Ability to delegate: The leader must be
positive and delegating operational
authorities and in showing confidence in
the subordinates.
 Positive and opportunistic attitude: The
leader is positive and opportunistic in
nature which helps in the upliftment of
the workforce attitude towards a common
goal and objective

Contd.
 Ability to inspire: The leader should be
able to inspire other to motivate them i
conducting the operations in an more
humble manner.
 Caring and motivating: The leader should
also care about subordinates and keep
them motivated to take the whole team
forward towards a common objective.

Identifying one of characteristic
of being a positive leader
 One characteristic which should be there
within a positive leader while leading
emotional labourers are the nature of care
and motivation. The leader should be able
to care and motivate the workforce. This is
because they are the one which are nursing
and caring of other hence the need and
urge of getting cared and motivated is
highest in them. This ability of a leader
which help the leader to effectively lead and
motivate the workforce of the company.

Strategy that a positive leader could use to improve the productivity and wellbeing of Emotional Labourers
 The strategy which leader should used in
order to improve the productivity and
wellbeing of the Emotional Labourers are
the motivation and communication. The
strategy will involve continuous
motivation and affirmative
communication which will be established
in between the workforce of the company.

Contd.
 Motivation is a evident behavioral tool
using which the leader will be able to
empower the workforce to do better at
workforce and through such process the
leader will also improve the ideology of
the workforce wellbeing and through
motivation good mental approach can be
built by the firm in order to ensure that
the firm is operating in an evident
manner.

Contd.
 Through communication any of the
workplace activities and events can be
monitored through which the leader will
be able to communicate with the
workforce and know problems of the
subordinates which will help the following
in mitigating problems and maintaining
the wellbeing of the Emotional labourers
(Macdonald et al. 2017).

Contd.
 Following this strategy the leader will be
able to ensure proper and effective well
being of the Emotional labourers and will
also be able to engage the workforce in a
high performance operational plan
through which productivity and
performance of the workforce will
increase.