Positive Leadership
recognizes and utilizes individual strengths and is scientifically proven
Positive leadership aims to ensure that the manager's leadership style actively creates a working environment that promotes the development of employees' potential.
Furthermore, this leadership style recognizes and utilizes the individual strengths of the employees instead of predominantly focusing on weaknesses. This results in a win-win situation: the company benefits as much as managers and employees.
It is therefore a leadership style that is not only about meeting today's demands in organizations, but also about growing with them and developing oneself and one's employees.
Positive leadership recognizes and utilizes individual strengths
Positive leadership is therefore the leadership competence to create a working environment in which employees feel that they are living out and developing their strengths, feel valued in what they do, identify with it and are thus motivated not only to orient themselves to the required performance, but also to contribute - to go the extra mile.
Average leaders mainly lead, control and are satisfied when this succeeds. Positive leaders, on the other hand, see their task as significantly supporting employees in developing their individual greatness.
Average managers lead - positive leaders unleash potential
Working successfully with employees requires more competencies than just good management skills. If your goal is to lead in a motivating way and if you want to know what makes high-performance teams different from average or perhaps even below-average teams, then Positive Leadership will introduce you to a leadership approach that has the tools to do so.
Positive Leadership, as a subfield of the scientific discipline of Positive Psychology, claims to evaluate the impact of this approach through serious research. Although the Positive Leadership approach is still relatively young, there are now numerous well-founded studies that show significant positive effects on job satisfaction, performance, fluctuation, and even health, among many other aspects.
How does Positive Leadership work?
Why are more and more companies introducing Positive Leadership? Because research confirms that companies with a positive leadership culture are significantly more successful.
Studies show that employees in a Positive Leadership culture are supportive, flexible and better able to adapt during organizational change. Furthermore, with this leadership style, employees are engaged beyond their defined areas of responsibility. Positive leadership is also associated with higher levels of commitment, satisfaction and retention, as well as a supportive organizational climate.
The effect of Positive Leadership has been scientifically proven by numerous studies
Numerous studies also show that a high level of the PERMA factors is associated with a significantly higher basic positive emotional mood in people. These positive emotions primarily affect where someone directs their attention: A person led by a Positive Leader specifically focuses attention on strengths, opportunities, and solutions that contribute to successfully accomplishing tasks. This leads to a win-win situation for the company, the employees and also for the leader him/herself.
The PERMA-Lead® leadership style has been proven to be linked to a reduction in the stress levels of employees. The more this style is followed, the less often team members are sick, their risk of burnout is reduced by more than half, they have more confidence in the company, increased frustration tolerance, and their job satisfaction and performance are measurably higher. In addition, leaders with a high PERMA-Lead® leadership style can handle stressful situations more easily, recover more quickly after professional setbacks and are significantly more creative in developing solutions.
Positive leadership has been shown to reduce stress and burnout, promote health and job satisfaction, and also performance
In difficult conditions for companies, such as those brought about by the Corona pandemic, it has been proven that employees have more confidence that their company will master the changes if the manager is a positive leader. In addition, they are also measurably more likely to proactively engage in shaping the necessary changes.
In this way, a positive leadership style on the part of the manager is transferred to the employees by creating an organizational climate that in turn strengthens the aspects already mentioned. This creates a positive cycle between employees - managers - organizational culture.
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