How to Be a Positive Leader
Wednesday, April 8
This session will focus on how leaders can enable positive change at work, especially when confronted with crises, set-backs, and hopelessness on the job. You will learn how to build on key positive leadership practices as described and illustrated from the book How to Be a Positive Leader.
The workshop will provide hands-on activities, short-term exposure, and long-term support for leaders interested in adopting positive responses to the small and big challenges they face.
This session requires preparation. All participants will be asked to complete a free online version of the character strength survey and come prepared to both share and illustrate their top strength in a small group setting.
The workshop includes a combination of mini-lectures, mini-cases, story-telling and group work. At the end of the workshop, participants will have completed a positive leadership exercise that includes helpful suggestions from their group members and a short-list of customized practices they can implement for the specific challenge they currently face.
About the presenter:
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Dr. Marlene Janzen Le Ber is an Assistant Professor, Dimensions of Leadership, at Canada’s only women’s university, Brescia University College. Recruited to develop the leadership program at Brescia, Dr. Le Ber currently teaches "Women and Leadership" and "Nonprofit Organizations and their Environments." How social systems change is at the core of her research; with a particular focus on the processes of social innovation. Her research on women's leader identity development builds on this understanding of complex processes of leadership. Prior to her doctoral studies in strategic management, Dr. Le Ber was a health care executive within academic health sciences centers, known as a strategic leader who spearheaded numerous health system innovations. |
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