According to Seligman and Peterson,
positive psychology is concerned with three issues: positive emotions, positive individual traits, and positive institutions. Positive emotions are concerned with being content with one’s past, being happy in the present and having hope for the future. Positive individual traits focus on one’s strengths and virtues. Finally, positive institutions are based on strengths to better a community of people.
As leaders within our fields of practice, it is important to focus on what is going right. Develop what is positive. Look at your employee’s skill set and develop what they are good at doing.
Give them lots of positives.
Leadership is not position, it is the influence we carry within our community. This includes our family, friends, society, places of work, etc.
Today let’s focus on what is going well. This will have an effect on how we respond to situations and others. This is true leadership!
