**7. Being proactive and also encouraging team members to take initiative**

Leaders need to explore the opportunities for employees learning and growth. Leaders have to realise and explore the potential strengths of employees together for their success. Innovation and critical feedback is necessary for the progression of the organisation. Leaders need to look at solutions rather than problems and ask the right questions to employees to help them look at different perspective. Example: the Apple way of looking at things "Is it possible for a phone to do more than make calls?" When leaders empower and provide opportunities to co-create and enable employees to feel wound up to initiate proactive behaviours and continue to face experiment with assignments without burning out. These factors build the selfconfidence of the team members as they see their leader's positive perspective. Employees exhibit more engagement at workplace when there are passionate about they work and have a good work life balance. Employees who are proactive are looking at futuristic roles, assignments and projects by anticipating the requirements, challenges and likely consequences. They demonstrate their affirmative behaviour in terms of volunteering them to support their team member when their have issues in their projects. These behaviours exhibit their leadership skills.

### **8. Positive psychology plays a significant role in the human behaviour and it is not about a feel-good concept**

Today's leaders have a lopsided influence on place of work's positivity and undermined its influence to improve organisational efficiency. The essential physiognomies that standout amid effective leaders are their positivity in testing times by being authentic to work, share power and empower followers to experience growth and advancement to strive towards assimilation of objectives. Research indicates that positive approaches to empower people and building trust are a must-have leadership trait. Their aptitude to introspect around their feelings and actions in what way it influences employees is extremely go forward and seek for feedback for improvisation. Positive leaders stimulate confidence, grow employee's strengths, positive perspective and recognise one's contribution to transform big picture thinking into certainty [10]. Based on the positive leadership theories (authentic, transformation, ethical, participative, empowering servant leadership), researchers started looking at positive psychology which has a major influence on

*Positive Leadership Experiences of Software Professionals in Information Technology Organisations DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100805*

leader behaviour. The progress of positive leadership theories in the last two decades has lacked "the considerate, developing procedure, putting into practices states that positive leadership still remains an under investigated". The authors defined positive leadership as an individual who aligns closely with business strategy to drive higher level of performance by promoting optimism and focusing on employee's strengths, positive perspective and recognition.

