Tag: Positive Leadership

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Podcast: Positive leadership in the police force

It was a lot of fun recording this podcast with Dr. Dorit Bosch and I am happy to share it with you.
🎧 Click here for the podcast:

The show notes:

👮‍♂️😇👨🏻‍🎓Dr. Bernd Bürger 🇪🇺 combines two worlds. On the one hand, he has been with the Bavarian police force for almost 30 years and has been head of the Leadership and Operations department at the training institute there for 5 years. On the other hand, he is an internationally sought-after scientist, speaker and positive leadership coach.

Bernd found his way to positive leadership in practice as a police officer because he was looking for a solution to build a positive and productive relationship among colleagues, but also with citizens, beyond hierarchies. Hashtag#PERMA-Lead is just such a practical method that specifically promotes motivation, health and well-being.

📕The approach was developed by organizational psychologist Dr. Markus Ebner and is illustrated in his Book "Positive Leadership" presented. He uses PERMA to describe five elements that a manager should take care of:

P for Positive Hashtag#Emotions
E for Hashtag#Engagement / Strengths-based leadership
R for Relationship / sustainable Hashtag#relationships
M for Meaning / Hashtag#Sinnstiftung
A for Accomplishment / making hashtag# successes visible

👉🏻Mehr on positive leadership can be found on Bernd Bürger's homepage. In addition to the book by Dr. Markus Ebner, he also recommends the Podcast "Positive leadership" by Christian Thiele.

Experience the positive effect for yourself at Bernd's boot camp at the Mindshift Festival and register now.

🗓️ 15.-16.5.2025
📍Atelier Gardens Berlin
🎟️ More info / Registration

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Reflect on leadership behavior in a scientifically sound way: PERMA-Lead Profiler

Detailed feedback on your own positive leadership behavior and expectations in just 15 minutes? This is possible with the PERMA Profiler, an online test procedure that meets the criteria for organizational psychology diagnostics.

The evaluation

In my opinion, the evaluation report is terrific. You get a 13-page evaluation report with appealing content and design. It also shows your own results in comparison to a regularly updated benchmark. This allows you to see in which PERMA lead factors you are already well positioned and where there is still potential for development.

The exciting thing: The Profiler is also part of the 360-degree feedback and, based on the data from the self-assessment and external assessment, a study was able to show that although managers rate themselves better than employees do, the trends are the same. This means that if, for example, you rate yourself as having the most room for improvement when it comes to promoting positive emotions at work, employees are likely to rate you the same way. This means that you can also work on the relevant areas based on your self-assessment.

Profiler: Excerpt from the "Positive emotions" section

The report also has the advantage that everything is explained individually according to the results. More than 700 different text modules are combined for this purpose. And you get a benchmark for each area, i.e. how other managers rate themselves in this area.

Unfortunately, the test is not free, as the development team, servers, etc. have to be financed. There is a variant where you get the results yourself, but I would only recommend this in connection with a workshop, as in my own experience it is important to be able to discuss the results. The second option is to do this at the same time as an evaluation coaching session, in which case you receive the report during the meeting with the coach.

If you want to do one of the variants, get in touch with me or with one of the other certified PERMA lead coaches. You can find a coach in your area via this GoogleMaps map. Then simply write an email to the dear colleagues at [email protected] with the number of the coach you want and you will get the contact.

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Positive leadership for practice

You can find practical tools for putting PERMA-Lead into practice in my new toolbox. Here I provide all the tools that I have come across in police forces and organizations, that I have stumbled across in specialist articles or that I have (further) developed myself.

Click here for the PERMA Lead Toolbox.

Many more practical examples, for which you don't need a download, can be found in my presentation. Or - and this is the most fun: develop customized tools yourself in PERMA Lead Workshops

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Healthy leadership with positive leadership

🍎 Healthy leadership with positive leadership. That was the title of my keynote speech today at the Lower Franconia Police Headquarters Health Day.

🔬 It was a pleasure to show my colleagues the scientifically proven positive effects of experiencing PERMA on resilience and illness. Thank you very much, dear Dr. Markus Ebnerfor your great studies.

☺️ We also experienced a lot of PERMA, laughed, smiled, reflected on our strengths and discussed many practical examples.

👏And the PP Untefranken set a great example with this day: Active promotion of positive emotions, many speakers and sports coaches (and a great organizer - Claudia Ernst) who were able to live out their strengths, lots of cross-organizational contacts (relationships) and a lot of meaningfulness:

👍🏻 Even State Secretary Sandro Kirchner, MdL took a lot of time and emphasized the importance of the health of Bavarian police employees with his presence and words of welcome!

😊 A great event that filled my PERMA memory properly again!

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Kudos board - making successes visible

How can success be made visible and how can the fifth PERMA lead element, Accomplishmentpay in? Is that also possible if you don't have a budget? It is possible! And with a Kudos board, it only costs a little paper and tape. The whole thing is even nicer with a whiteboard and magnets, but that's all you really need. But let's start from the beginning.

What is Kudos?

The term "kudos" has its roots in ancient Greek; the word "κῦδος" (kudos) means fame, honor or recognition. It became popular in the English language in the 19th century and was initially used in academic and literary contexts. In modern usage, "kudos" is often an informal term used in social media, business and personal interactions to express praise and recognition. The term has thus evolved from a classic, venerable term to an everyday expression of appreciation.

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What is a Kudos board?

I got the basic idea from Dr. Markus Ebner's book "Positive Leadership in Practice." There, Mathias Posch from ICS describes in his chapter "International Conference Services: A dedicated team and a shared vision as a recipe for success" (pp. 223-234), that they have a Brag Wall in the kitchen on which, for example, praise emails from customers are posted so that everyone can take note of the successes. I have taken this great approach and developed it further. Because in my own working environment, we are also very lucky to receive a lot of thank-you letters. But do people actually read the one or two A4 pages when they are hanging on a wall?

Kudos cards

I have therefore developed the idea further and designed Kudos cards. The team leader can either fill them out and summarize the contents of the thank you letter, or you can send the sender a selection of cards as a PDF and ask them to fill them out by hand. This makes the Kudos board even more personal. Then all you need is a nice place in the lounge, ideally a whiteboard with a few casual magnets, and you're ready to go - with the visualization of successes.

Fictitious example of a completed Kudos card

Kudos cards download

I have a few different Kudos cards designed, which here for free use to make available. It is a PDF file with several templates, all in DinA5 format. Have fun visualizing your successes!

What makes me particularly happy: Police Commissioner Torsten Krückemeier took up the idea and had Kudos cards designed and produced for the Central Hesse Police Headquarters. and you can also download them here free of charge. free use download.

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Instructions for use for yourself

A tool for self-reflection and team integration

I am delighted to be able to support the great idea of the Central Hesse Police Headquarters under the leadership of Police Commissioner Torsten Krückemeier to share with you.

What is it all about?

I quote: "[The Manual of Me] is intended to be your personal "instruction manual" that helps other people to understand you better, to work together more harmoniously, and to make your life easier.
and communicate effectively with yourself. At the same time, by creating the manual, you reflect on yourself and your needs - which helps you AND others.
The manual should reflect your individual character, your ideas and preferences in a professional context. This can help to make topics that are personal to you (more) discussable."

Reference to PERMA-Lead

The tool contributes to various PERMA elements. For example, it promotes Commitmentstrength-oriented leadership, because it is precisely according to strengths ("I can do this well and
gives me energy") is asked. And when you become aware of this yourself AND you share it with your team or team leader, this is an essential step towards putting strength-oriented leadership into practice.

But it particularly promotes RelationshipsThis is because it helps to get to know the characteristics of the other people in the team. However, the prerequisite is that you feel safe in this team, otherwise it is unlikely that someone will open up personally in this way. This is why the tool is only partially suitable for the introduction round. But if psychological safety is a top priority in the team and the manager promotes this, i.e. trust, a culture of learning and inclusion are practised, this tool is ideal for getting to know each other in a structured way at an initial team event.

Download

The "Manual of Me" is available herer including explanation for download.

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