Management Conviction by Positive Leadership Skills in Improvement of Employees’ Performance

This presentation discusses the importance of positive leadership skills in improving employee performance. It covers various skills such as communication, motivation, goal setting, trustworthiness, creativity, conflict management, leading change, and team building. The aim is to help leaders convince management to implement strategies that enhance employee performance.

MANAGEMENT CONVICTION BY POSITIVE
LEADERSHIP SKILLS IN IMPROVEMENT OF
EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE

Introduction
 Leadership skills are an important component in ranking leaders to make
productive decisions involving their organization's missions and goals.
 These positives skills in leadership determine the progress of the organization
(Ates, Garengo, Cocca, & Bititci, 2013,p.28).

Aim
 This presentation aids in defining how positive leadership skills
can be used by leaders to convince the management which
improves the employees' performance (Caldwell,Truong, Linh &
Tuan 2011,p.171).
 The performance of the employees is a major determiner for the
growth of companies hence it should be highly considered.

Discussion
 There exist several leadership skills which can be used by leaders
in convincing the board of directors on making improvement in
the performance of the employees.
 Such leadership skills include;

1. Communication skill
 As a leader, one should be able to clearly explain to the management
everything involving organizational goals for specific tasks.
 A leader should master all the forms of communication both verbal and
writing.
 Success in an organization depends on the leaders' ability to
communicate clearly and powerfully (Puccio et al 2010 p.57).
 Communication can be said to be a process as it involves various
distinctive steps.
 A leader should always have a message to communicate and channel of
passing the information.
 The communication should also have a destination/receiver which may
be the board of directors in my case.

Continuation………..
 A leader with a good communication skill finds it easy in convincing the
management on the improvement of the employees' performance.
 Performance is one of the major attributes towards the company growth need to
be highly emphasized.
 Some of the things that facilitate in convincing the management by such leaders
are that they clearly make the management understand their reasoning.
 Such leaders also have an attracting method in their message delivery process
which makes it successful in their conviction.
 The leader with productive communication skill also develops a reason in his/her
message.
 This plays a great role in driving the board of directors towards goals
implementation and improvement of the employees working condition and
performance (Puccio et al 2010 p.57).

2. Motivation
 Motivation is said to be a reason for people's action. Motivation being a positive leadership skill
aids in action determination (Caldwell et al 2011,p.171).
 The skills help the leaders in inspiring employees and management in making an extra mile in
their duties.
 In improving the performance of the workers, the skill contributes to defining the type of the
working condition of an organization. The skill also describes the pace of the employees in their
duties.
 Leaders with a good motivating skill find it friendly in convincing their management in an
improvement of performance in an organization.
 Such leaders are capable of creating a motivating field in their management (board of directors).
 With such a motivating condition the board of directors gets themselves convinced hence
approving those strategies which uplift the performance of employees such as increasing their
salary.
 Motivating leaders also develop assurance and commitment to the management of an
organization (Caldwell et al 2011,p.171).

3. Goal setting
 This is a skill which involves the creation of goals towards achieving success in an organization.
 This skill defines the capability and knowledge of a leader towards achieving the company's
obligation to the people.
 The skill widely contributes in attaining conviction from the board of directors by the leaders
(Ates et al 2013,p.28).
 A leader with sensible goal setting skill easily convinces the management in applying the
strategies that aid in the widening the employees' performances.
 This is because the management widely believes in his/her capabilities with reference to already
achieved goals.
 With a goal setting mind, the leader can approach the board of directors in a goal perspective
view.
 It can also attribute in convincing them in articulating the performance-based practices in the
employees .

4.Trustworthiness
 This a skill that helps the leaders in building trust in their leadership.
 A trustful leader avoids any action that erodes the growth and degrades the services of
the organization.
 With such a leader fruitful processes are observed and confirmed in an organization
((Paglis 2010,p.771).
 The skill of trustworthiness plays a big role in winning the favor of the board of directors
in planning and approving ideas that enhance the performance of the organization.
 For example, a mistrusted leader always lead to doubting in every decision he/she
introduces which makes the management decline even if it can positively improve the
performance of an organization.
 This can be said to be a skill which widely attracts the decision of the board of directors
when approving organization strategies.
 A leader can be highly skilled in goal setting process or in communication but trust covers
a wide area of the support from the board of directors(Ates et al 2013,p.28).

5. Creativity
 This a skill which defines the quality/ability towards creating something. This
goes together with the goal-setting process.
 A leader is required to more creative in making decision and goals set.
 During the communication session when a leader seeks support from the board
of directors, this skill should be highly implemented when answering the
question from the board of directors (Caldwell et al 2011,p.171).
 The board of directors sometimes may ask questions in testing the mode of
thinking of the leader.
 Hence, in trying to convince the management of the strategies to be implemented
so as to change the performance of the organization a leader should widely
involve his/her creativity his/her speech delivery (De Meuse el al 2010 p.120-
139).

Continuation….
 The level of creativity also determines the kind of goals set. Some goal
may be of no value addition towards the performance which leads to
rejection by the board of directors.
 Generally, creativity is a tool which determines the kind of support
from the directors while uplifting the workers' performance.
 The skill also describes how the leaders approach the problem-solving
process.
 A leader with high creativity implements methods that no longer affect
the condition and performance of the organization and its employees
which makes the management's trust towards the leader improves.

6. Conflict management skill
 This is a skill that shows how a leader handles a conflict among employees
without affecting the running of the organization.
 Conflict handling should not be time-consuming as it alters the normal progress
of the organization (Crooks et al 2010 p.160-173).
 For a leader to manage in convincing the board of directors in the
implementation of strategies which improves the performance of employees he
should capability in conflict handling process.
 This is because the new strategies may result to arise from conflicts in the future.
 In new strategy implementation, a leader with a skilled conflict handling is
capable to estimate kind of conflict and establishes a culture- solution that offers
a balanced solution to estimated conflicts (Paglis 2010,p.771)..

Continuation
 Conflict largely affects the growth of the organization as it affects the
teamwork.
 Hence a leader with a high conflict solving skills assures trust to the
management as they are free from conflict fear (Paglis 2010,p.771).
 This makes him/her win their support in approving and initiating new
ideas which boost the performance of the employees.
 For example, in designing a process which determines the increments of
the salary and promotion in employees it's a strategy which may affect
conflicts.
 A leader with high skills in conflict resolving is capable to design a
better process which is free from conflicts.

7. Leading change skill
 Leading change skill helps the leaders in providing a variation when the process of
an organization tests less productive.
 The skill highly protects the organization from a downfall or when absorbing
pressure generated by its competitors (Paglis 2010,p.771).
 A leader with a high level of change-implementation wins a lot of trust from the
board of directors.
 This is because they believe that in case of complication in the introduced idea
he/she will respond positively without affecting the running of the organization.
 For example, in trying to increase the wages of the employees as a result of
performance improvement, an organization may in future suffer from funds
shortage which may affect the salaries.
 A leader with a high change leading skill provides a change which favors the
organization and its employees without interfering with the employees'
performance.

8. Building teams
 This a skill that helps in grouping people together for a common goal.
 The building team process comprises of four stages which include; forming, storming, norming
and performing.
 The skill greatly generates on the performance of the employees.
 A good leader knows how to group her /his workers with an aim to boost the whole performance
of the organization (Khan 2010,p.167).
 A leader with high teams building skills will always win the support of the management.
 This is because they have observed his/her capability in bringing employees together in their
performances.
 They also understand all his/her new strategies as a way of bringing collaboration in an
organization.
 Such a leader with such positive skill convinces the board of directors with ease (Crooks et al
2010 p.160-173).

Conclusion
 As discussed positive skill in leadership determines the growth of
an organization.
 Trustworthiness is a skill that goes together with all the positive
skills in leadership (De Meuse, Dai & Wu, 2011,p.120)
 A leader may have all the skill needed but without trust, he/she
may end up losing the support from the board of directors.
 Negative skills such as the dictatorship and corruption lead to
erosion of organization growth hence such leadership should
always be discouraged.

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