Mohit Sihag - Week 11

Positive

Leadership

Positive

Leadership (contd.)

What is high quality leadership?

Positive management is a branch of fantastic psychology that studies management patterns, techniques, and behaviours which might be deviant—definitely deviant.

TO BE A POSITIVE LEADER:

you have to usually thank your colleague

appreciate your crew contributors at place of job because it boosts their confidence

you need to broaden empathy amongst you crew members

feedback is a need to for a frontrunner

FOUR PILLARS OF POSITIVE LEADERSHIP

Promoting a Positive Work Environment: Working in a high-quality environment has big effective consequences on character and organisational achievement, consistent with empirical evidence.

Manifest Compassion: Experiencing pain, displaying care and difficulty, and setting up systematic movement to help fix the damage or assist the person who's suffering are all examples of compassion.

Assist in Forgiveness : Recognizing the damage, recognising a intention to which workers ought to appearance forward, preserving high expectancies or requirements of achievement, imparting assist for injured people, letting cross of feelings of offence and grudges, and legitimising the usage of language that elevates questioning and expresses virtuousness are all part of facilitating forgiveness.

GRATITUDE EXPRESSIONS: Individuals who're recommended to preserve gratitude journals, documenting items for which they're thankful each day, take part in purposeful gratitude visits wherein the schedule is sincerely to explicit gratitude to every other character, or ship gratitude messages where playing cards or notes are sent to folks who deserve appreciation will increase common and public expressions of gratitude to others.

I want to convey the whole positive leadership message through a story, I read on the Internet.

In 1992, a lady was at a reception honoring the guest speaker for a leadership forum at the U.S. Naval Academy. The speaker hadn’t shown up and the guests were getting restless, anxious to meet him before his speech. She approached the host and told him what she had found out - the speaker had never been informed there was an event prior to his engagement and would not be attending the reception! As the Protocol Officer, it was her job to ensure all official social events hosted by the Academy Superintendent went off without a hitch.

For the most part, due to the continuous attention to detail of her great staff, this happened flawlessly but for this particular event, the guest list had been handled by the academic department who was hosting the speaker.

Either way, it would put her boss in an uncomfortable situation, and she went to him with the news, fully expecting to be fired on the spot. He listened quietly. Nodded. And then said, “well, that’s unfortunate. Let’s get the guests over to the auditorium.”

That was it. And it is a perfect example of positive leadership.

No drama, no blaming, no pointing fingers.

Just a focus on solving the problem at hand in a way that didn’t destroy the people who needed to solve the problem. Attitude is everything.

"Being positive in a negative situation isn’t naive. Its leadership." - Ralph Marston

One of the best ways to think of positive leadership is the effect it has on other people - it always brings out the best in others.

Don’t confuse positive leadership with constant happiness. Positive leaders can get down like anyone else, but it is their response that makes the difference.

Positive leaders make a conscious and deliberate choice to:

see the good in every situation
remain solution-oriented
encourage others to move forward using their strengths
remain calm under pressure
be resilient and bounce back from surprises
empower and build others up
give their people what they need to do their job effectively

Self-reflection Exercise: Team Brainstorming - What are important elements for Positive Leadership?

What are important elements for Positive Leadership?

1. Sincere enthusiasm

True enthusiasm for a business, its products, and its mission cannot be faked. Employees can recognize insincere cheerleading from a mile away. However, when leaders are sincerely enthusiastic and passionate, that’s contagious.

2. Integrity

Whether it’s giving proper credit for accomplishments, acknowledging mistakes, or putting safety and quality first, great leaders exhibit integrity at all times. They do what’s right, even if that isn’t the best thing for the current project or even the bottom line.

3. Great communication skills

Leaders must motivate, instruct and discipline the people they are in charge of. They can accomplish none of these things if they aren’t very skilled communicators. Not only that, poor communication can lead to poor outcomes. Leaders who fail to develop these skills are often perceived as being weak and mealy-mouthed, according to Wang. It’s also important to remember that listening is an integral part of communication.

4. Loyalty

The best leaders understand that true loyalty is reciprocal. Because of this, they express that loyalty in tangible ways that benefit the member of their teams. True loyalty is ensuring that all team members have the training and resources to do their jobs. It’s standing up for team members in crisis and conflict.

5. Decisiveness

A good leader isn’t simply empowered to make decisions due to their position. They are willing to take on the risk of decision making. They make these decisions and take risks knowing that if things don’t work out, they’ll need to hold themselves accountable first and foremost.

6. Empowerment

A good leader has faith in their ability to train and develop the employees under them. Because of this, they have the willingness to empower those they lead to act autonomously. Wang says this comes from trusting that their team members are fully up to any challenges they face. When employees are empowered, they are more likely to make decisions that are in the best interest of the company and the customer as well. This is true, even if it means allowing workers to go a bit off script.

7. Charisma

Simply put, people are more likely to follow the lead of those they like. The best leaders are well-spoken, approachable and friendly. They show sincere care for others.