Leadership Presentation: Strategies for Positive Employee Wellbeing

This presentation focuses on positive leadership, exploring strategies to enhance employee wellbeing and productivity. It begins with an introduction to authentic leadership and its characteristics, emphasizing the leader's role in guiding, directing, and influencing others. The presentation delves into the dimensions of authentic leadership and the importance of psychological capital, including hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism. It outlines strategies for improving employee wellbeing, incorporating skill development exercises to demonstrate the impact of positive leadership techniques. The content is supported by references to relevant research, highlighting the practical application of positive leadership principles in the workplace. The presentation aims to provide insights into how positive leadership can foster a thriving work environment, improve employee satisfaction, and reduce workplace stress.

Student’s
Name

Introduction
“A Leader is one who has ability to guide,
direct and influence the behaviour of
others”.

Characteristics of Authentic leader
“Authentic leader focuses on positive outcomes by making
people aware and taking honest actions”.

Characteristics of Positive leader
It develops vision and focus on developing
strong relationships with employees

Dimensions of Authentic Leadership
Self-
Awareness
Balanced
Processing Internalised
Moral
Perspective
Relational
Transparenc
y

Role of Authentic Leader
Improves productivity and
provides higher employee
satisfaction
Boosts
Employee
Engagemen
t
Inspires
Employee
s
Builds
trust
Authentic Leader

Difference between leader and
Manager

Psychological capital
Higher level of psychological capital brings positive outcomes. It is
attained through hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism.

Psychological capital
It focuses on engaging the employees and
making them self-aware about the strengths
and weakness.

Strategies to improve the well-being
of employees
Understanding of
psychological
patterns
Personality
development
Self-Evaluation

Skill Development Exercises
Practising of self-
evaluation
Questionnaire
Conduct of
personality test
Learning from trends

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