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STRENGTH BASED LEADERSHIP UPEACE CENTRE FOR EXECUTIVE EDUCATION WWW.CENTRE.UPEACE.ORG
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STRENGTH BASED LEADERSHIP
UPEACE CENTRE FOR EXECUTIVE EDUCATIONWWW.CENTRE.UPEACE.ORG
Our Plan for this session
Quick Review
Strengths based
leadership
Vulnerability and
leadershipNext steps
Please share an insight you had from our last session on Appreciative Inquiry
Four principles of Appreciative Inquiry we looked at
The Positive Principle
The Anticipatory Principle
The Simultaneity Principle
The Constructionist Principle
The mindset of positive emotions help raise your positivity ratio
• Be Open• Be Appreciative• Be Curious• Be Kind • Be Real
“From these mindsets spring positive emotions”
Source: Barbara Frederickson
PERMA: A guiding framework for Positive Leaders
Remember PERMA+
Our Plan for this session
Quick Review
Strengths based
leadership
Vulnerability and
leadershipNext steps
Our focus today is in the ‘E’ of PERMA
Engagement : Knowing your top strengths and using them as much as possible!
How do you know when you are deeply engaged in an activity?
Characteristics:
• You Typically Feel Strong• Alert• In Effortless Control• Unselfconscious• At The Peak Of Your Abilities
Source: Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
How is ‘engagement’ different from ‘positive emotions?’
Engagement is different, even opposite, from positive emotion. If you ask people who are deeply engaged what they are thinking and feeling, they usually say:
“Nothing!”
Source: Dr. Seligman
The VIA Classification of Strengths is the backbone of the science of positive psychology
The VIA Strengths Survey identifies traits of character found across cultures
This self-assessment survey is regarded as a central tool of positive psychology
Character Strengths: We all have them all
Discussion questions:
1. Share your top 3 strengths from the VIA survey with your partner(s)
2. What’s an opportunity for you to use your top strength in a leadership challenge that you’re facing?
WE are all simultaneously leading at different levels – and each of these will be addressed
SELF AWARENESS
PEOPLE LEADERSHIP
TAKING ACTION
The support/challenge model
Challenge Level
Level of Skill and Support
To be deeply engaged, the perceived skill and perceived challenge of a given task must be in balance
Anxiety FLOW
Worry Control
Apathy Relaxation/Boredom
ChallengeLevel
Skill & support Level
FLOW: a state of deep engagement
“Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own state. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement and
thought follows inevitably from the previous one. Your whole being is involved and you’re using your skills to the utmost.”
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Strengths based leadership – some suggestions
1. Being aware of where your colleagues are in the support/challenge model
2. 2. Using Appreciative Inquiry performance evaluation questions
3. 3. Taking VIA (and other) strengths-tests and sharing results
Our Plan for this session
Quick Review
Strengths based
leadership
Vulnerability and
leadershipNext steps
Vulnerability and Leadership: Uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure
Paradox of Vulnerability
“Vulnerability is courage in you, but weakness in me. When I meet you, it’s the first thing that I look for in you, but it’s the
last thing I want to show you in me.”
Brené Brown
Challenge for next week: Reflected Best Self
Schedule: Two 1-hour sessions/week
Introduction and overview of
leadership
PERMA model of well-being
Appreciative Inquiry
Strengths based leadership
Identifying your ‘Why’?
Conflict Styles and
Relationships
Teams and Psychological
Safety
Managing Energy not
Time
Measuring Success
Your Personal Leadership Plan
& Wrap-up
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Comments…questions?
Thank you! Don’t hesitate to reach out…
UPEACE Centre for Executive Education
Mohit Mukherjee
WhatsApp: +1-561-601-0527
www.centre.upeace.org
