PERMA model

But I look at followership, and for me, there's something that followers have in common with a good leader.

And in positive psychology it's called PERMA, where P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is good relationships, M is meaning and mattering, and A is accomplishment.

Now, in my life, what I do a lot is I measure PERMA in a huge variety of situations.

But for me, followership that works is high PERMA.

So my view of leadership is forget the techniques and look at who creates the most PERMA.

Mm.

Promote the leaders who build PERMA, tell leaders they're accountable not only for the productivity of their followers but also for the wellbeing, the PERMA of their followers.

And that's because what we've found in the last few years is across, uh, companies, high wellbeing predicts high productivity.

Yeah, the reason I used O for optimism, and I also talk about positive emotions, because, again, back to what Seligman had, it was P, positive emotions.

It was PERMA, P-E-R-M-A, positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and actually accomplishment is the A, which I didn't include because I had glazed looks when I talked to people, especially about accomplishment.

Explain that.

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So a lot of your – what you have done is taken research and science and made it accessible through more.

Right, yes.

And so you mentioned PERMA.

And so PERMA is – explain just PERMA a little bit, kind of what it's based on, and then we can go into the –

He calls it PERMA, P-E-R-M-A.

Each element of his model, the PERMA model, actually is available to us at work.

This is just like the easy hit for everybody to remember.

The first thing that is required to flourish in our lives is that we feel positive emotion.

We will explore the strengths, the struggles, and the science behind the dyslexic experience so that you can better understand yourself or someone you love.

With the next five podcasts, we're going to cover a series of information around the PERMA model.

Now the PERMA model was a psychological model that was introduced by Martin Selkman and the whole purpose of it was how to focus on increasing an individual's well-being.

Now while the PERMA model has never specifically been targeted to work with dyslexics, it is easily transferable to the demographic of dyslexia.

So in each episode we're going to break down the PERMA model and we're going to talk specifically how this actually impacts the dyslexic brain and how to utilize it so that we can increase our well-being.

Dyslexia within research shows that we have a tremendously low levels of well-being.

And while most research links this to the impacts of education, we have to realize we're not always in school and it is within the social world and just how our brains are wired that we can actually have adverse reactions to the world around us.

And this is what causes decrease in our well-being.