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Learning Targets
Explore the cornerstones of positive
leadership
Discover the impact of each cornerstone on
ourselves and others in our organization
Reflect on our own leadership styles to
navigate a course of action toward positive
leadership
Foster Positive
Relationships
Unlock Resources
from Within
Tap Into the Good
Create Resourceful
Change
Fostering Positive RelationshipsMindful and Productive Interactions
Did you know that short, momentary
interactions with people at work are like
vitamins that strengthen and fortify you
throughout your day? @KEDC1 @AESAnetwork
Pathways For Building High Quality
Connections (HQC)…
Respectively Engage Otherso Small acts matter.
o Be present physically and emotionally.
o Listen and be supportive.
Task Enable Otherso Interpersonal investment and desire to help.
o Emotional support, encouragement and recognition.
Trust Otherso Allow yourself to be vulnerable and rely on others.
Playo Moments of interaction; innovation and creativity.
Mindful Reflection
Know Your Impact
Professor John Hattie
Exposure to the impact of one’s work
can motivate greater effort.
Pay periodic visits to end users; as
service agencies, who do you serve?
Do you visit the people and places
that directly or indirectly benefit
from what you do?
Meet twice per month with
employees.
Keep a journal of your contributions.
“I’m making a difference!”
Meeting one person who benefits from your work
can boost your productivity by more than 400
percent. @KEDC1 @AESAnetwork
Unlocking Potential From WithinDoing More With Less
“Being a positive leader implies being able to imagine and act on the
possibilities that there are always resources to be tapped – it just
requires seeing and knowing how to unlock them.”
Dig for gold in leadership and human
development; the more positive
characteristics you seek, the more you
will find. @KEDC1 @AESAnetwork
Pathways For Unlocking Potential From
Within…
Enable Thriving at Worko Craft your work to be more meaningful.
o Look for opportunities to innovate.
o Invest in relationships that energize.
o Take care of your health.
Share Information & Provide Decision Making Discretiono Understand how work relates to vision/mission and strategy.
o Empower employees to make decisions that affect their work.
o Provide performance feedback.
Create Positive Identitieso Who am I as a leader?
o Who are you at work? (Employees)
o How do our identities impact our capability to work together?
GIVE Model of Positive Identity (Laura Morgan Roberts, Jane Dutton, Jeff Bednar)
o “I am Growing.”
o “I am Integrated.”
o “I am Virtuous.”
o “I am Esteemed.”
Mindful Reflection
Resources…
Values in Action (VIA) inventory.
https://www.viacharacter.org/survey/account/register
Leadership Lifeline Exercise
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/gsb/files/alumni-migration/files/alumni_migration/career/careerlifevision/pdf/Lifeline_Exercise.pdf
Reflected Best-Self Exercise
http://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/cpo-rbse-flier_april2016-1-1.pdf
Dale Carnegie & John Maxwell liken
the process of developing people to
mining for gold: “You must move tons
of dirt in the process, but you go in
looking for the gold, not the dirt.”
@KEDC1 @AESAnetwork
Tap Into The Good“An ethical leader must develop several practices, such as ensuring the
code of ethics is more than window dressing, hiring the right employees,
doing an ethics audit and reminding employees about a larger purpose.”
Doing good leads to doing well:
employees of ethical leaders are more
loyal, more satisfied, work harder, and
perform better. @KEDC1 @AESAnetwork
Pathways For Tapping Into The Good…
Activate Virtuousnesso Express gratitude.
o Enable Forgiveness.
o Facilitate transcendence (positive deviance, a sense of profound purpose).
Lead an Ethical Organizationo Make sure to walk the talk.
o Find your mantra.
o Avoid self-serving pitfalls.
o Do not go it alone.
Imbue the Organization With A Higher Purposeo Become a person of higher purpose.
o Learn Vision Formulation
o Learn Vision Implementation
Pulling it All Togethero Gratitude, forgiveness, transcendence, compassion, honesty, hope and love
o Increased commitment, satisfaction motivation, positive emotions, effort,
physical health and psychological health
o Heart rhythms, brain functioning, physiological alignments, nervous system
health, memory and brain cortex thickness
Create Resourceful Change“Leaders often blame employees for resisting change, overlooking their
own culpability. This blame game may create the very resistance
leaders are attempting to eliminate.”
Employees can be resources, not resisters,
to help advance change…only if leaders
allow them. @KEDC1 @AESAnetwork
Pathways For Creating Resourceful Change…
Treat Employees as Resources, Not Resisterso Cut off the straps.
o Storytelling the big picture and benefits.
o Integrate self-affirmation with doubt.
Practices to Transform Employees form Resisters to Resources for Changeo Foster ownership and experimentation.
o Focus on the big picture and hidden benefits.
o Remind employees of their capabilities…but also the urgency of the situation.
Cultivate Hope: Found, Not Losto Act “as if”.
o Kiss it better.
o Shared, not stored.
Create Opportunity from Crisiso Learn, reflect and adapt.
o Scan and see the possibilities.
o Engender trust and behave authentically.
o Embrace crisis as Opportunity.
Mindful Reflection
Summing it up…
Building a positive culture
in which team members
are aligned and
communicating openly –
both good and bad news-
is crucial to leading with
trust and authenticity.
Dwell on the happiest of endings to
the most challenging of situations.
@KEDC1 @AESAnetwork
Revisiting Our Learning Targets…
Explore the cornerstones of positive
leadership
Discover the impact of each component on
ourselves and others in our organization
Reflect on our own leadership styles to
navigate a course of action toward positive
leadership
Take-Aways…
Positive leaders understand there are always relationships to strengthen,
resources to unlock, good to tap and change processes to engage that
enhance, rather than diminish, future possibilities for excellence.
Positive leaders are engaged in actions – it is leadership in motion, not
leadership standing still. Single small actions can have multiple beneficial
effects.
Positive leaders do not see people, teams or organizations as limited entities
with fixed capacities.
Last but certainly not least – Your behavior matters and the more positively
you lead, the more successful and happy your organization, family and
community will become!
What Course Will You Navigate for You
and Your Organization?
Questions to guide you on your journey…
How do I find positive meaning in my work/organization?
How can I inspire a vision that is more inspiring to me and others?
How can I infuse the vision with greater hope?
How can I access or foster the creation of more high-quality connections each
day? For people in my organization? For customers and other groups that
are interdependent with my organization?
Where is there more potential for deeper levels of leader and employee
empowerment?
How can I facilitate more alignment of my actions with my values?
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