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As a Team Lead, Organizational Change Agent and Agile / Mindset Coach, I've always personally witnessed the benefits of positive leadership. The clearer, more appreciative and positive I showed up, the more my teams were able to get excited to align with meeting the vision and delivering on the goals.
Many corporate cultures make it hard and don't require or support positivity and gratitude. Often, when a leader is visibly appreciated for it, other leaders are expected to become more positive and most negative leaders do not have time or interest to invest in change. These negative leaders instead fuel confusion, distraction, misalignment and burndout.
Life also throws unexpected negativity at us in large amounts. Sometimes the most positive minded people need a refresh or update after being embedded in a negative or traumatic experience. This was my recent personal journey. After a number of suppressed traumatic experiences, I've spent the past ten years relearning how to use positivity and gratitude daily to be a consistent positive light for myself and those around me.
I learned early in life there is good in everything and that there is power in gratitude. No matter how bad things may seem, they can always be worse. I used this perspective as I led sports teams, music groups, student government and friend circles, using a leadership style that delivered positivity and gratitude with humor mixed in.
While achieving a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and becoming a career woman, a mom and a soccer coach, I would consistently find the joy and happiness in all things big and small. Often, I would lead with positivity and fun, making small jokes, saying silly things or providing the space for the team to have their personal joy. Time and again, the positivity would be appreciated by the teams with visible benefits. Eventually it would be condemned by a non-positive leader. Rather than rejoice, learn, copy and apply to also succeed, these negative leaders would use their energy to create issues, distract from the positivity and return things to normal boringness.
I naturally challenged this everywhere I worked. I learned some leaders don't care and other leaders don't have the confidence or organizational resources to (continue to) lead with positivity!
Having worked with more than 51 companies over 30 years, it is clear that Positive Leadership needs to be applied more in business, in families in education, in government and generally everywhere. Positive leadership is powerful and requires a cultivated and practiced mindset. Building these positivity skills within corporate leadership, parenting, teaching and other areas will drive positive change in others and in the world we live.
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