Positive Leadership: Strategies to Improve Professional Well-being

This presentation aims to identify characteristics of a positive leader and assess how their strategies can improve professional productivity and well-being. It defines positive leadership as a strategy that helps organizations and leaders excel under pressure, aligning with business strategy to drive higher performance. Key characteristics include decision-making capabilities, creativity, communication skills, inspiring potential, honesty, resilience, and strategic planning. Resilient leaders learn from failures. Strategies focus on inspiring professionals. The presentation also outlines various skill development exercises such as Minefield, Human Icebreaker, Round Tables, The Human Knot, Plane Crash, and Concentration, detailing their impacts on communication, trust, problem-solving, collaboration, and memory retention. The presentation references academic sources to support its points.

THE POSITIVE LEADER And his skills and
strategies

AIM OF THE PRESENTATION
To identify one characteristic of being a
positive leader
To assess how positive leader could use his
strategy to improve the productivity and the
well being of the professionals
To assess different types of skill development
exercises and their impacts

WHAT IS POSITIVE
LEADERSHIP?
A strategy to leadership that helps an organisation
as well as the leaders present in the organisation to
excel under pressure (Klettner, Clarke and Boersma
2014). It aligns closely with the business strategy in
order to drive the higher levels of performance in an
organisation.

CHARACTERISTICS OF
POSITIVE LEADERS
Decision making capabilities
Creative and innovative
Good communicator
Potential to inspire others
Honest
Resilient
Strategic planning
Cooperative

THE MAIN CHARACTERISTIC
OF POSITIVE LEADERS
They are resilient and this is why they do
better their failure (Elmes and Barry 2017).
They learn from their mistakes, instead of
giving up.

STRATEGY THAT A POSITIVE LEADER
USE TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY
AND WELL-BEING OF PROFESSIONALS
They inspire the professionals. They put their efforts
more on inspiring the workers.

TYPES OF SKILL
DEVELOPMENT EXERCISES
Minefield
 Human Icebreaker
 Round tables
The human knot
Plane crash
Concentration

IMPACT OF THE EXERCISES
 Minefield- It is great for enhancing the skills of communication
within the individuals as well as building up of trust within them
 Human Ice breaker- It is helpful for breaking up of the tension in a
room. It also helps in encouraging the contribution and discussion
and in the creation of the sense of connectivity. It is a very
beneficial exercise for developing the communication and inter-
personal skills
 Round tables- It helps in developing delegation and leadership
skills

CONTINUATION….
 The human knot- It is very helpful in developing problem solving
and communication skills among the individuals. It helps in
increasing the productivity and performance of the employees
 Plane crash- It helps in developing problem solving and
collaboration skills among the employees
Concentration- It is very beneficial in stimulating the memory
retention of the individuals as well as is great for creating team
bond.

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