Positive Leadership: Enhancing Skills in the Workplace Presentation

This presentation delves into the theory and practical application of positive leadership, emphasizing its role in enhancing workplace productivity and employee well-being. It begins by defining positive leadership and its impact on organizational performance, highlighting the importance of transformational leadership and resilience. The presentation explores how resilience, as a key characteristic of positive leaders, can be fostered through strength-based approaches, particularly in nursing practice. It then discusses the role of resilience and hope in leadership, advocating for reward and recognition systems that support these attributes. The presentation provides recommendations for improving staff productivity in nursing, focusing on strength-based approaches to enhance efficiency and performance. It concludes with specific strategies for delivering effective performance feedback, emphasizing the importance of a strengths-based approach to improve individual performance, employee engagement, and job satisfaction. The presentation is supported by relevant academic references and provides a comprehensive overview of positive leadership principles and their application in real-world scenarios.

POSITIVE LEADER
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INTRODUCTION
 Positive leadership has
confirmed to create major
impact to methods and
strategies undertaken in a
workplace (Rushton et al.
2015).
 It has been essential in
enhancing organizational
performance and
productivity.
 These are considered as
diversities which exist
between positive
leadership roles and
functions as well as

POSITIVE LEADERSHIP THEORY
 Positive leadership theory applies strategies to improve
employees’ productivity and efficiency.
 It is certain that positive leadership theory is determined
at enhancing employees’ effectiveness through one of
the attributes and relevant strategies.
 Transformational leadership is regarded as a leadership
approach which tend to stimulate positive changes in the
individuals to pursue (Aga, Noorderhaven and Vallejo
2016).
 Transformational leaders are usually dynamic,
enthusiastic as well as passionate.
 Transformational leadership further takes into account
offering support as well as encouragement to individual
followers.

RESILIENCE AS A CHARACTERISTIC
OF POSITIVE LEADER
 Resilience related to adaptability and elasticity
tend to have direct positive association with
transformational leadership characteristics such
as individual influence individualized
consideration along with inspirational motivation.
 Thus it is contingent that greater level of resilient
competent leader will be able to stimulate
employees with individual personality (Banks et
al. 2016).

CONTINUATION
 With each passing day, nursing professionals
show inclination in working for leaders who are
hopeful regarding future.
 Pessimism and hopelessness and resilience
can be contagious especially for nursing
practice.
 Maintaining employee patient-centred is likely
to create collective sense of purpose (Rushton
et al. 2015).
 Thus, watching patients progress and improve
health conditions is imperative for
understanding value of staffs.

RESILIENCE AND HOPE IN RELATION
TO LEADERSHIP
 Role of resilience and hope in relation to leadership and hope
centric factors deserve to be rooted in the reward recognition
process and success achievement development.
 However, if organizational leaders incline towards transformational
leadership techniques rather than preferring transactional or
laissez-faire counterparts, it would shed light on resilience of
developing leaders in the evaluation of social associations with
their responsibilities (Aga, Noorderhaven and Vallejo 2016.).

IMPROVING STAFF PRODUCTIVITY IN
NURSING PRACTICE
 Nursing leaders are essential to the successful
functioning of healthcare organization.
 Staff productivity and employee as well as patient
satisfaction are two critical challenges which
nursing leaders typically encounter (Solano et al.
2016).
 Using effective motivational strategies through
positive leadership techniques facilitates nursing
professionals to deal with challenges resulting in
highly positive healthcare environment.

STRENGTH BASED APPROACH TO
IMPROVE EFFICIENCY IN NURSES
 Strategies like strength based approach in workplace
facilitates employees understand their value and significance
to the organization and the assigned role.
 Strength based approach play an imperative role in
organizations and consequently influences a range of
professional behaviour with the motivation of employees
(Dubreuil et al. 2016).
 Healthcare organizations are no exception to retain highly
proficient staffs and continually improve their performance.

CONTINUATION
 Strengths based approach enables nursing
professionals to amplify their efficiency and
performance by implementing strengths to
daily nursing practice (Dubreuil et al. 2016).
 Factors related to balance in professional life;
hope, control and lack of clinical supervision
contribute to resilience of nursing
professionals.
 Resilience level of nurses has been linked to
attributes such as hope, self-efficacy,
determination as well as coping and
competency.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DELIVERING EFFECTIVE
PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK THROUGH STRENGTHS-
BASED APPROACH
 Positive leaders must implement the strengths-based
approach as the principal means of providing
feedback
 Adopt a strengths-based approach to successfully
manage areas of weaknesses for nursing professionals
 Select appropriate environment while providing
feedback and deliver in considerate approach

CONCLUSION
 The performance feedback through strengths-
based approach is to improve individual
performance in addition to employee engagement,
motivation as well as job satisfaction. Resilience
has been found to positively impact personal and
organizational outcomes.
 Strengths-based approach has led to increase
resilience to challenge and cope successfully
regardless of major adversity.
 Resilient nurses would learn to deal with these
challenges and develop improved coping
mechanisms for improving productivity and
efficiency.