Science & more. Certified Advanced PERMA Lead Consultant
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
🍎 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!
😊 Positive leadership PERMA lead in the police? I'm incredibly pleased that more and more police forces are interested in it, because I think it's the ideal approach to operationalizing good leadership.
🤗 I am pleased that I was able to make a small contribution to ensuring that the Police Hesse PERMA-Lead even more intensively in the future. Why?
1️⃣ PERMA-Lead has been scientifically proven to be effective in terms of performance, well-being, reducing staff turnover, sick days and much more. And we need healthy, high-performing and cheerful police officers and police chiefs.
2️⃣ PERMA-Lead is easy to explain and implement. Thanks to numerous companies that already use positive leadership, there are also numerous practical examples of implementation that invite you to copy and adapt.
3️⃣ There are great tools for measuring the implementation of PERMA-Lead and developing it further in a targeted manner.
❤️-Congratulations Police Hesse and from the bottom of our hearts to all colleagues: good luck on your journey!
And also a big thank you to the Chief of Police Torsten Krückemeier, who invited me to this event and also invited me to the this great article has written about this.
Finally - I'm a certified PERMA lead coach and consultant 🤗
Since I published the book "Positive Leadership" by Dr. Markus Ebner have read (here to the current, extended edition)1I am a big fan of this management approach. Why? For three reasons:
👩🔬Erstens, because Positive Leadership - PERMA-Lead is scientifically sound and many verifiable studies have shown that implementing the leadership style has a significantly positive effect on performance, health (=fewer sick days), staff turnover and much more.
⚙️ Secondly, because it is easy to put into practice (if you want to) - the model is easy to understand and apply and there are numerous examples of good practice. It is about promoting positive emotions (P for Positive Emotions), using employees in a strength-oriented way (E for Engagement), creating sustainable relationships (R for Relationships), explaining the meaning of work and decisions, such as changes (M for Meaning) and consciously recognizing successes (A for Accomplishement).
☺️ Thirdly: Because it's fun. PERMA is contagious and not only proven to be good for employees, but also for managers themselves.
🔖 For this reason, I really wanted to delve deeper and went to Vienna with Dr. Markus Ebner on 13 and 14 June 2024 to get certified as a consultant. Together with a great peer group, we then solved numerous complex tasks, I was allowed to do my first evaluation coaching and since the final online session on September 10, 2024, I am now officially certified. This means that I can use all the great Test procedure for PERMA-Lead and coach with them. If you are interested, just get in touch 😉
I gave a short interview about my presentation on the fringes of the district congress of the DPolG Oberbayern Süd - if you want to take a look: Click here for the Video.
The current issue of pvt "Polizei Verkehr + Technik" contains a review of our book "Generation Z and Alpha. Understanding, winning, retaining. A guide for the police" published.
Here is a small excerpt from the review by Andreas Hohensinn, consultant at the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Vienna:
"Overall, 'Generation Z and Alpha' is a very informative and engaging book that makes an important contribution to understanding the coming generations. It provides a sound analysis and encourages reflection on the future of society and the police organization. For readers interested in sociology, psychology, futurology in a police context, this book is highly recommended."
The full review here with the kind permission of Dr. Uwe H. Wehrstedt (Managing Editor and Publisher pvt) here for direct download.
What is the purpose of the police? To guarantee security! In this article I describe why this spontaneous answer is not sufficient as the deepest meaning, as a purpose for "the company" police.
Continue reading „Purpose der Polizei: Wir sind ein Anker der Demokratie“In this 36-minute podcast I would like to give you a few brief insights into Generation Z in the police force. Who is this generation, is there even such a thing as "the" generation and why should we be careful with this big pigeonhole "Generation Z"? How can we win them over and, more importantly, how can we retain them?
If you would like to know more, here is the link to the review in our book: "Generation Z and Alpha. Understanding, winning, retaining - a guide for the police."
Our book on Generation Z in the police has finally been published. In a time of rapid change, marked by technological innovation, global crises and new generations, organizations face the challenge of adapting and establishing contemporary ways of working. Our book takes a unique look at an area traditionally characterized by order and authority - the police. A police officer and an educator take on the subject. This unconventional collaboration creates a reflection on Generations Z and Alpha and the challenges they face in an environment that calls for new approaches.
The book is available directly from Publisher or with Amazon - and of course in any well-stocked bookstore. If you use the links here, especially the one to the publisher, you support my work, because then I actually earn something from the book ;-).
What our book offers:
About us Authors:
Police Director Dr. Bernd Bürger has been with the Bavarian Police for over 25 years and has been working intensively with the younger generations since 2015, both in his own leadership work and in numerous publications and lectures.
Heidi Ellner, Dipl.-Päd. univ., has been analysing how organizations and individuals learn for 20 years now. Through her work in the training of prospective police officers in the Federal Police, she is at the center of the relevant field of vision on a daily basis.
What happens next:
We will stay on the ball and publish further Article and perhaps there will be a second, updated edition. That depends on your interest and feedback.
"Mit Sicherheit anders" ("Safety is different") - this is the slogan of the Bavarian police's current recruitment campaign (Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Sport and Integration 2021). But does this also apply to Generation Z? Or is this a completely "normal" generation? And most importantly, is "Generation Z", as described in the major youth studies, also found in the police force?
Our article explores these questions on the basis of a master's thesis in which several training seminars (entry-level training) of the Bavarian police were surveyed using a standardized questionnaire. The reasons for applying to the police, the general expectations of employers and superiors and the specific expectations of the police in this respect were examined. In addition, a comparison was made between participants from different stages of training and older candidates. The results of the 2019 Shell Youth Study were used as a basis for comparison.
If you would like to find out more about the topic, click here for a Podcast with me and here to my book "Generation Z and Alpha. Understanding, winning, retaining - a guide for the police".