Positive Leadership Skills to Improve Employee Performance

This presentation focuses on how positive leadership skills can help in convincing management for innovative ideas to improve employee performance. It explores the fundamental principles of positive leadership and provides ideas to improve employee performance. The presentation also discusses how to convince the board of directors for the suggested ideas.

Positive Leader
Positive leadership skills to convince
management for an idea that would
improve employee performance

Aim of the presentation
The main aim of the presentation is to show how
the positive leadership skills helps in convincing
the management for an innovative idea which
could improve the performance of the employees.

Positive leadership
It can be defined as the
proprietary leadership
strategy which assists the
leaders at all levels to excel
even under pressure. It
aligns with the business
strategy and drives higher
performance in the
organization (Dutton &
Spreitzer, 2014).

Good leaders creates more economic value
than the poor leaders

Values of positive Leadership
It has been rightly said that the future belongs to
the leaders who wan to win without losing track of
their values (Dutton & Spreitzer, 2014).
The key values of a positive leader are:
•Excellence under pressure
•Openness and communication
•Purpose clarity
•Character and integrity.

Effective leadership for a positive
organisation
• Building positive relationships with the staff is necessary
for the leaders. It builds trust and loyal relationships.
• There are approaches to deal various situations which
includes self centred approach and other people centred
approach.
• The second approach facilitate the respect and
betterment of all employees through positive attitude of
the leader (Dutton & Spreitzer, 2014).

Fundamental principles of positive
leadership
• Positive leadership is a choice
• It necessitates having values and ideals.
• It recognises and sustains the culture
• It requires individuals to have a clear sense of purpose.
• It motivates individuals to strive for their ultimate
dreams and to reach them.

Ideas to improve employee performance
• Fielding the criticisms of the team
members.
• Individualising the approaches
• Prioritising the engagement

Ideas to improve employee performance
Field the criticism
The leaders should
always be ready to
listen to the
suggestions given by
employees because
the feedback
received from them is
the genuine one and
solving them can
improve employee
morale and therefore,
performance (Ganta,
2014).
Individualised
approaches
The approach of
leaders should be
tailored as per the
employees an their
unique needs. It can
be done with the help
of uninterrupted
communication.
Building a satisfied
team ultimately yields
better results.
Engagement of
employees
Employee
engagement should
be the top priority of
every organisation.
It provides
enthusiasm and
passion to work and
at last, leads to
better business
performance
(Inuwa, 2016).

Ideas to improve employee
performance
Some other ideas to improve the employee
performance includes
Reward Improvement
Setting goals
Limiting the distractions
Flexibility (Chen, Zhao, Liu & Dash Wu, 2012).

How Board of directors can be
convinced
To convince Board of Directors/ management for the
discussed ideas to improve performance, certain steps
need to be taken:
Conduct 360 degree reviews
Pilot projects can be implemented
Writing letters and blogs to management
Voting of employees to take their views
One on one discussions (Zafar, Butt & Afzal, 2014).

How Board of directors can be
convinced
It’s a challenge to convince engagement for the newly
suggested ideas. Few points should be kept in mind while
placing suggestions to the management:
The suggestions should align with the goals of the
company.
Build reputation of being a good performer
Use data to tell a story.
The effectiveness of the idea and chances of its survival
(Pieterse, Caniëls & Homan, 2012).

Conclusion
It can be concluded that firstly the goals, purpose and
targets of the company should be clear. Once it is known,
the rest of the way is made clear.
The leaders should ensure that everyone is involved. Also,
its should be known that how to pitch the ideas to the
management so that they could not say No.

References
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• Chen, X. H., Zhao, K., Liu, X., & Dash Wu, D. (2012). Improving employees' job satisfaction and
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Management, 23(2), 151-172.
• Inuwa, M. (2016). Job Satisfaction and Employee Performance: An Empirical Approach. The
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• Zafar, F., Butt, A., & Afzal, B. (2014). Strategic Management: Managing Change by Employee
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• Dutton, J. E., & Spreitzer, G. M. (2014). How to be a positive leader: Small actions, big impact.
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