Positive Leader: Improving Productivity and Wellbeing Strategies

This presentation delves into the strategies of positive leadership, focusing on enhancing the productivity and wellbeing of individuals engaged in emotional labor. The core concept revolves around managing both feelings and expressions to meet job-related emotional requirements, particularly in service-oriented roles. The presentation highlights the importance of honesty and integrity as key traits of a positive leader, emphasizing their role in strategic decision-making. It explores strategies such as effective meditation to reduce stress and promote mental stability, addressing burnout, and controlling frustration through mindfulness practices. Furthermore, the presentation emphasizes the significance of leadership training, promoting work-life balance, and teaching mindfulness to foster self-awareness and emotional regulation among staff. The provided references support the strategies discussed, offering insights into leadership in nursing and the implementation of these practices.

THE POSITIVE LEADER
STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING
PRODUCTIVITY AND WELLBEING OF
EMOTIONAL LABOUR

CONCEPT OF EMOTIONAL LABOR
• Mode of managing both feeling and
expression for fulfilling emotional
requirement for job
• Regulate emotion at the time of
interacting with service users
• Express both emotion and feeling during
analysis and decision making

CHARACTERISTIC TRAIT OF POSITIVE LEADER
• Honesty and integrity is the supreme
quality of positive leader.
• Integrity is the fundamental aspect of
strategic decision making session
• Integrity is the key of doing right thing at
right time
• This is the true mark of effective
leadership

STRATEGY FOR IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY
AND WELLBEING OF EMOTIONAL LABOR
• Effective meditation is the major strategy, which the
leader can employ to promote wellbeing and
productivity of emotional labour
• This lowers the stress of level and promote mental
stability (Dyess et al. 2016).
• This can also reduce the mental stress level
appropriately

ADDRESSING BURNOUT
• Nurse experience burnout at any point during
their career
• Lack of meditation can contribute to their loss
of enthusiasm (Scully 2015).
• Nurses should spent 10 minutes in meditation,
which can help in getting back in track
• Meditation also helps in reducing anxiety

CONTROL FRUSTRATION
• Positive leaders encourage the nurses to
take meditation for at least 10 minutes,
which can help in reducing frustration
• Nurse leaders play a critical role in
generating self-awareness among the
staff nurses

Positive leaders put mindfulness
• Conduction of meditation program
• Promote work life balance
• Promote muscle exercise, breathing
exercises, listening to music and resting
and listening to relaxing texts on CD
(Weiss et al. 2019).

LEADERSHIP TRAINING
• Implementation of well-designed
leadership courses
• Combining actionable mindfulness and
emotional intelligence practices
• Promoting customised leadership
courses
• Integrating self-awareness, self-
regulation, mindfulness and compassion

REMEMBER TO BREATHE
• It is the role of leaders to make the working
schedule in such a manner which can help the
staffs to spent five minutes for taking deep breathe
(Hafsteinsdóttir et al. 2019).
• Leaders offer effective tool of mindfulness for the
sake of generating self awareness among them.
• Through this way, the leaders can also react
properly towards their emotion.

TEACHING PEOPLE TO PRACTICE MINDFULNESS
• Leaders play a pivotal role in enabling
the people to practice mindfulness
• The leaders should also teach the nurses
regarding the way of being observant to
both inner and outer world
• It is the role of leader to raise the level
of consciousness among the staffs.

REFERENCES
• Dyess, S. M., Sherman, R. O., Pratt, B. A., and Chiang-Hanisko, L. 2016. Growing
nurse leaders: Their perspectives on nursing leadership and today’s practice
environment. OJ Nurs.
• Hafsteinsdóttir, T.B., Jónsdóttir, H., Kirkevold, M., Leino-Kilpi, H., Lomborg, K.
and Hallberg, I.R. eds., 2019. Leadership in nursing: Experiences from the
European Nordic countries. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
• Scully, N.J., 2015. Leadership in nursing: The importance of recognising
inherent values and attributes to secure a positive future for the
profession. Collegian, 22(4), pp.439-444.
• Weiss, S.A., Tappen, R.M. and Grimley, K., 2019. Essentials of nursing leadership
& management. FA Davis.