Positive Leadership Skills: Strategies for Employee Productivity

This presentation delves into positive leadership skills, highlighting their crucial role in enhancing employee wellbeing and productivity. It explores various leadership styles, including transformational, transactional, and servant leadership, emphasizing the importance of communication, motivation, and delegation. The presentation further discusses strategies for positive leaders to improve employee performance, such as boosting morale, fostering open communication, and providing recognition. It also addresses reasons for underperformance, such as lack of incentives and poor time management. The presentation concludes with recommendations for effective leadership, including proactive planning and adherence to policies, with the aim of fostering a positive and productive work environment.

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Positive
Leadership Skills

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 Practical Skill
 Establishes a clear vision (Northouse, 2014)
 Provides the information and knowledge
 coordinating and balancing
 Leadership cannot be taught (Fernandez, Noble,,
Jensen and Steffen, 2015)
 Leadership is an art
 Examples: Organising an event, Improvement of
the employee performance, Responding to illness.
Leadership Overview

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 Transformational Leadership
 Transactional Leadership
 Servant Leadership
 Democratic Leadership
 Bureaucratic Leadership (Olenski, 2015)
 Charismatic Leadership
 Autocratic Leadership
 Laissez-Faire Leadership (Shields, et al 2015)
Types of Leadership

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Styles of leadership

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 Leadership helps to enhance the communication
 It acts a driver towards positive Motivation (Murphy and
Johnson, 2016)
 Delegation of power is taught through leadership
 Positivity is a key factor of any leader
 Creativity increases after applying different types of
leadership (Bravo, 2015)
 The trustworthiness is also important in case of leadership
 The feedback from the employees is the mirror of how
leader is actually performing.
 The responsibility of the leader starts with listening.
Leadership Skills

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 Improves the confidence
 Brings the innovation and creativity
 Knowledge to handle the views
 Ability to devise solutions intelligently
 Patience to listen to the opinions of the others
 Not involved in Personal bias (Skillsyouneed,
2018)
 Enhances the overall productivity
 Shift the major base towards the employees
Positive Leadership

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 Flow of information is transparent and clear.
 Leveraging of risks on behalf of the employee
is the sign of a good leader
 A leader helps to strengthen the relationships
and bring innovation and creativity
 The basic effect of the sound leadership is that
it fosters culture independence
 A leader builds the organisational network
Advantages of Leadership

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 There are lack of Incentives and this demotivates the
employees
 Poor time management skills is again a reason for
underperformance
 Overconfidence of an employee can take him to the last
door of the organisation
 Unmotivated or uninspired employees make others also run
behind them
 The employees who have lack of goals and objectives are
the clear sign of underperformers
 Cultural fit (Chen and Rybak, 2017)
 Lack of purpose and the adventure
Reasons for underperformance

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 Strategic thinking is an important tool
 Planning and the Delivery is the next step
 Management of the People will help to cater
the needs of the employees
 Management change and the Innovation
 Influence and Pervasive nature (Anitha, 2014)
 Listening and the opinionated
 Timely and the efficient (Lavoie, 2015)
Which leadership skills are required to
communicate to the board of directors?

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 Boosting the morale
 The voice is heard
 Productivity increases the
performance(Leadership Training, 2016)
 Motivation to fulfil the goals of the team
 Recognition and appreciation is necessary
 Builds the skill and the expertise
 Increases the self confidence (LePine, Zhang,
Crawford and Rich, 2016)
How leadership helps to develop
the employee performance