Increase well-being, resilience, and willingness to change based on evidence. The police are facing growing demands for change in the face of societal, geopolitical, and technological upheavals. A recent study with 3,329 police employees in Hesse shows that Positive Leadership influences general willingness to change through two central psychological resources. By strengthening well-being at work and individual resilience, Positive Leadership promotes the willingness of... Weiterlesen
Dankfabrik - we make gratitude visible
Our new project is finally online – the Dankfabrik. It features a blog on the topic of (positive) leadership, as well as great products to implement positive leadership in practice: a Positive Leadership Impulse Calendar, our card game "The Operating Manual - Team Edition" for getting to know your team better (for team events, onboarding, or coaching). Furthermore... Weiterlesen
Podcast: PERMA instead of Torpedo - rethinking leadership.
I was a guest on ROBE & REVOLTE. Sarah and Franziska, former administrative judges, now lawyers and coaches, want to provide food for thought with their podcast for and with everyone who wants to help shape the future of jurisprudence - with ease, humor, and depth. Together, they illuminate and question the status quo. Always with a focus on how it... Weiterlesen
Podcast: Positive leadership in the police force
It was a lot of fun recording this podcast with Dr. Dorit Bosch and I'm excited to share it with you. 🎧 Here's the podcast: Spotify Apple Podcast On the web The show notes: 👮♂️😇👨🏻🎓 Dr. Bernd Bürger 🇪🇺 connects two worlds. On the one hand, he has been with the Bavarian police for almost 30 years and leads… Weiterlesen
PERMA-Lead in a Nutshell
After I was allowed to present PERMA-Lead at the police leadership conference of Hesse - and it was then quickly introduced there as a leadership tool - here is some background information on it, as well as the five elements in a brief presentation - but buckle up, I'm talking pretty fast (it's like speedwatching, in the GenZ style 😜) I have to self-critically note: Relationships … Weiterlesen
What is PERMA-Lead?
Here is a brief summary of what PERMA-Lead actually stands for. You can find more detailed information in Dr. Markus Ebner's books or in my presentations and keynote speeches. PERMA-Lead applies the principles of the PERMA model (positive psychology) to leadership and focuses on the well-being of employees as the basis for sustainable success. This approach is ... Weiterlesen
👮♀️ Public order policing and positive leadership?
2024 was also a year of lectures for me again on my favorite subject: The role of the police in assemblies. Among other places, I was at the Bereitschaftspolizei in Saxony-Anhalt, the leaders of the Thuringia police, the conference of the European Police Research Institutes in Amsterdam, and the Public Order, Crowd Management and Riot Control Conference in... Weiterlesen
Positive leadership with PERMA-Lead
Why I as a manager I am convinced of PERMA-Lead
Since 2013, I have been a management trainer at the German Police University , I am currently head of the Leadership and Operations department at the Bavarian Police Training Institute and have held various leadership positions in the Bavarian police force. So I have been dealing with the topic of leadership for a very long time, have read numerous theories and studies and reflected on them in a practical leadership context. But as exciting as many of the approaches were, what I lacked as a manager and scientist was scientific proof of the effects and / or easy practical applicability, i.e. an operationalization of this "leadership style".
Continue reading „Positive Leadership mit PERMA-Lead“Positive leadership for practice
Practical tools for implementing PERMA-Lead in practice can be found in my new toolbox. Here I provide all the instruments that I was able to learn about from police forces and organizations, that I stumbled upon in professional articles, or that I have (further) developed myself. You can access the PERMA-Lead Toolbox here. Many more practical examples, for which one... Weiterlesen
Healthy leadership with positive leadership
🍎 Healthy leadership with Positive Leadership. That was the title of my keynote today at the health day of the Unterfranken Police Headquarters.🔬 It was a pleasure for me to show my colleagues the scientifically proven positive effects of experiencing PERMA on resilience and illness. Thank you very much, dear Dr. Markus Ebner, for your great studies.☺️ We also discussed a lot… Weiterlesen

