Positive Leadership: Improving Employee Wellbeing in the Workplace

This presentation focuses on positive leadership and its impact on employee wellbeing, specifically within the context of nursing. It begins by defining leadership and introduces the concept of authentic leadership, outlining its characteristics such as consistency, vision, self-awareness, and listening skills. The presentation then explores positive leadership, linking it to positive psychology and highlighting characteristics such as mindfulness, positive affect, and self-esteem. It emphasizes the importance of employee wellbeing, suggesting strategies like communication, flexible workplaces, and skill development exercises to improve performance. A specific exercise, "Back-to-Back Drawing," is presented as a tool for enhancing listening and communication skills. The conclusion summarizes the benefits of authentic leadership, including increased job satisfaction and improved performance, particularly for nurses. The presentation is supported by several academic references.

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Introduction
 A leader is the one who tries to influence a large
group of people person in order to achieve the
goals of an organization. the leader focuses on
the following 3ps (Cameron, 2013). The
leadership style chosen in authentic leadership
and the employee are Nursing

Authentic leader and its
characteristics
Authentic leadership is a type of management way
in which the people behave in a genuine, real and
sincere manner (Youssef-Morgan and Luthans,
2013).
 Consistency
 Lead with vision
 Self-awareness.
 Listening skills
 Integrity
 Transparency

Positive leader and characteristics
Positive leadership is an area in which there is a
study related to the positive psychology which is
linked to the leadership styles, techniques, and
behavior (Donaldson and Ko, 2010).
 Mindfulness
 Positive affect
 Hope
 Self-esteem
 Confidence
 Emotional stability
 Self-efficacy
 Locus of control

Strategies To Improve The
Employee Well Being
It is highly important to focus on the well being of
the employees as it leaves positive impact on the
employees performance as well Gardner, Cogliser,
Davis and Dickens, 2011)
 Communication
 Flexible workplace
 Control
 Innovation
 Recognising and celebrating achievement

Skill development exercise
Back-to-Back Drawing
This exercise is about listening, developing and
clarity based strategies when the people
communicate with each other (Seliger, 2014).

CONCLUSION
 The results that can be concluded from
this study are:
 Authentic leadership style increases the
job satisfaction
 Authentic leadership style improves
performance
 The authentic leadership style of a good
head nurture can improve the
performance of the nurses

References
 Cameron, K., 2013. Practicing positive leadership: Tools and techniques that
create extraordinary results. New York: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. https://
www.bkconnection.com/static/Practicing_Positive_Leadership_EXCERPT.pdf
 Youssef-Morgan, C.M. and Luthans, F., 2013. Positive leadership: Meaning and
application across cultures. https://
digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1133&context=manageme
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 Seliger, R., 2014. Positive leadership. Die Revolution in der Führung. Sigapore:
Schäffer‐Poeschel, Stuttgart.
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 Donaldson, S.I. and Ko, I., 2010. Positive organizational psychology, behavior,
and scholarship: A review of the emerging literature and evidence base. The
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 Gardner, W. L., Cogliser, C. C., Davis, K. M., and Dickens, M. P. 2011) Authentic
leadership: A review of the literature and research agenda. The leadership

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