Positive Leadership Strategies for Police Officer Productivity

This presentation delves into the concept of positive leadership, specifically within the context of police officers. It highlights the importance of positive leaders in fostering a productive and ethical environment. The presentation explores the characteristics of effective police leaders, emphasizing communication, motivation, and the ability to connect with diverse communities. It then introduces strategies, such as perceived organizational support (POS), to improve officer productivity and well-being. The presentation further examines various skill development exercises, including training, self-efficacy programs, and communication skill-building activities, and analyzes their impact on the implementation of these strategies. The conclusion emphasizes the significance of positive leadership in policing and the role of POS in enhancing officer performance and overall well-being. The presentation provides a comprehensive overview of positive leadership principles and their practical application within law enforcement, referencing various research studies.

Positive Leader Presentation

INTRODUCTION
• Positive leaders build on negativity to create new positive outcomes. The concept of
positive leader was introduced by Kim Cameron and according to Cameron positive
leader have an affirmative bias and they should focus on capabilities and strength and
on confirm the heights of human potential. The PPT is based on positive leader
characteristics of police officer. This presentation will evaluate the most suitable
strategy that a positive leader can use to improve the productivity and well-being of
employee i.e. police officer.
• The presentation will also analyse various type of skill development exercise and with
the help of the strategy the impact of each strategy will demonstrate

LEADER
 Positive leadership can be define as a pattern of behaviour of leader that promotes both
positive ethical environment and positive psychological capacities.
 The main purpose is to foster self-awareness, internalized moral perspective, to balance
information and communication process, enhancing self-development.
 The main task of police officer is to protect the citizens and maintain law and maintain
order in society. Police officer must possess leadership skills that allows them to
connect with the wide range of demographic level and dedicated to serving the public.

Characteristic of a positive leader (Police
officer)
A positive police leader should have leadership quality that lead them to do their job and
serve local community effectively.
It is essential for effective leader to delegate the responsibility and honest and motivate the
subordinates and encouraging new ideas to the agency.
The main department of police officer of USA, Malta and Australia are; Criminal
investigation department, drug squad, etc.

GOOD COMMUNICATOR AND
MOTIVATOR
 Police leader must lead the entire workforce and agency and in order to effectively
inspire people to follow, they must understand their demographic community. Effective
leader should relate to the local public of all generation and understand various
approach and strategies to motivate them. They can set clear goals and praise and
rewards other on achieving the task. For the successful and effective leader as police
officer they also need to keep the information transparent and being honest with the
subordinates and with the local public.

STRATEGY THAT A POSITIVE LEADER CAN
USE TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY AND
WELL BEING
 Productivity and Well being of police officer depends on the
management and it captures how they feel about the
organisational process that improve their work performance and
engagement. Organisational support from management help the
police officers to improve their productivity and well being,
commitment and turnover intentions.

CONITNUE
 There are various strategies that can be use by positive leader to improve their productivity and
well-being-
 Perceived organisational support strategy- POS is the degree to which police officers believe that
their organisation value their contribution and cares about their well being.
 POS incorporates the employee's belief that appreciation is expressed through job enrichment,
payment, etc
 POS can be adopted by a positive leader to enhance the work performance, productivity and
psychological well-being
 POS help the leader to meet its socio emotional needs and it increases their work effort

DIFFERENT TYPE OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT
EXERCISE AIMED AT DEMONSTRATING
THE IMPACT OF EACH STRATEGY
 Skills can be understand as the ability and capacity acquired through
systematic, deliberate and sustained effort to adaptively and smoothly
carry out complex activity or job functions including cognitive skills,
interpersonal skills and technical skills. There are various type of skill
development exercise that can be practised by leader to improve well-
being and productivity by implementing POS strategy.
 Training- Training help the leader to develop various skills such as;
technical skills, interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence.
 Self-efficacy- Self-efficacy is an individual belief to their strength to
achieve goal.
 Communication skills development exercise activities lead to
successful outcomes and motivate employees within the organisation

CONTINUE
 Being empathy- For improving productivity and well-being of the employee it is
essential for the leader to being empathy and leader can being emphatic by
understanding employees and local public needs and their issues and resolve them
efficiently.

IMPACT OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT
EXERCISES ON STRATEGIES
 A successful and positive police leader should take care of the local public and ensure
their security and for successful implementation of POS strategy in the organisation,
being empathy is essential that allow leader to meet socio-emotional needs of its
employee that impact positively on the productivity and enhance well being of the
employees.
 Following exercises make impact on the strategy of improving productivity and well
being, where the training program improve the technical skill, soft skills, etc. That help
police officer to make effective strategy and take decisions in critical situations

CONTINUE..
The practise allow police officer to convey effectively to the local public and their
subordinates and control the command on others.
 Exercise of being empathy allow leader to understand and put citizens or local public's
need over his profitable need or organisational need and it makes impact on the strategy
and make it successful to improve productivity, work performance and well-being of
employees.

CONCLUSION
 From this presentation it has been concluded that a leader should be positive and Police
officer should being a good and positive lead that can convey and lead the local community
and ensure to serve them effective services. It also has been analysed that there are various
leadership skills are important in positive leader but to being a good communicator and
motivator is major skill that is needed in the police officer to being a positive leader. The
study has been concluded that productivity and well being can be improved by POS strategy
that is perceived organisational support strategy. Lastly PPT had been analysed that
necessary skills can be developed by various exercises and practise such as; training, self-
efficacy, programs that enhance communication skills, etc. and their impact on the strategy.

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