Positive Leadership Strategies for Professional Productivity

This presentation explores the importance of positive leadership and its impact on the wellbeing and productivity of professionals in various fields. It emphasizes the need for leaders with exceptional skills and experience to foster a multicultural and effective work environment. The presentation outlines strategies that positive leaders can use to enhance the performance and wellbeing of engineers, accountants, and commercial bankers, including mindfulness training, emotional intelligence development, flexible schedules, and incentive-based programs. Skill development exercises like cross-training and self-directed learning projects are also discussed. The presentation concludes by highlighting the significance of mental health and wellbeing in the workplace and suggests strategies like yoga, meditation, and mental health counseling to address the challenges faced by professionals in today's competitive landscape. The presentation references various academic sources to support its claims and recommendations.

Topic: Different Types
of professionals
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About the topic
• Having positive leadership with positive management traits are very
important to ensure long term business success.
• It is a proprietary leadership strategy
• It helps in creating multicultural and effective organisation
• It is very important for organisations to make sure that they have good
leaders and managers who have exceptional skills and experience (Carter &
Baghrust 2014, p. 455)
• This presentation shall elaborate on discussing about strategy to improve the
wellbeing and productivity of different types of professionals like engineers,
commercial banker and accountants.
• Different types of skill development exercises shall be included.

Aim:
To explore on the way of developing and enhancing the
productivity and wellbeing of the professionals by positive
leaders.

Characteristics of Positive
Leaders
• As per Lu and Lin (2014, p. 214), leaders having warm
relationship with their employees can set standard employees
to ensure that they are serving well.
• They are demanding, but without being demeaning.
• They unite their team.
• They connect with the employees.
• They inspire employees with purpose and vision (2015, p.
2344).
• They lead their employees with optimism.

Strategy that Positive leaders can use for improving
the productivity and well-being of the professional
employees
• Managing a diverse workplace begins with creating a strong
policy of quality which would govern the values of the
organisation
• After the implementation of the policy, the organisation could
start to implementing some diversity measures throughout
the workplace (Jerome et al., 2014, p.1)
• Evaluation of employee profiles is important for measuring
employee diversity Story et al. 2013, p.76).

Improving productivity and
well-being of engineers
1. Mindfulness training
• It would help the engineers to
relieve their stress and feel balanced
• It can increase the focus and
productivity on their daily work
(Avey et al. 2009, p. 185)
• Mindfulness practices can include
yoga, meditation
2. Emotional Intelligence
Developmental training
• Improve employee performance
and productivity
• Reduce stress

Improving productivity and
well-being of Accountant
1. Mental health counselling
• Improve interpersonal and
communication skills
• Ability of changing the self-
defeating behaviours
• Helps in getting relief from
anxiety, depression and improves
mental health 2. Flexible schedule
• It helps in maintaining work-life
balance for doctors
• Help employees in integrating life
and work in the ways that could be
fulfilling both at office and at their
home.

Improving productivity and well-
being of Commercial Banker
1. Snooze-Friendly Policies
• It would help the engineers to
relieve their stress and feel
balanced
• It can increase the focus and
productivity on their daily work
• Mindfulness practices can include
yoga, meditation 2. Incentive-Based Trips
• Aids to a healthy competition.
• Boosts and improves creativity
and productivity
• Loyalty and dedication
(Bretschneider & Leimeister
2017, p. 251)

Skill development exercises for
the professionals
• Cross training
• Training employees in another
activity, which is related to
their present job role
• It is a good way to make them
learn new skills and combat
their boredom.
• It could help in increasing
their value and flexibility.
• It is highly effective for the
commercial bankers and
accountants (Reivich,
Seligman & McBride 2011, p.
31).
• Self-directed learning
projects
• Assigning the employees with
some specific project.
• It would promote the
expansion of knowledge and
skills by means of self-directed
learning and researching.
• It would produce an outcome
that is likely to aid to the
organisational objectives
(Curran et al. 2019, p. 84).
• It is highly effective for
accountants and engineers.

Conclusion:
• In modern world of high competition and diversity, survival of business
and retaining the man power has become extremely difficult.
• Positive leaders and their qualities can help in making its easier for
businesses to survive in the long run.
• Professionals in different fields struggle with different issues that
hampers their productivity and well-being.
• Positive leaders can help the professionals in overcoming these issues
by applying certain strategies that would make the professionals feel
that they are valuable for the organisation.
• Mental health and well-being of the employees are very necessary to
concentrate upon.
• Yoga, meditation, flexible schedule, appreciation, mental health
counselling etc. can be very effective strategy to cope up with the
problems.

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