Positive Leadership: Skill Development for Employee Performance

This presentation delves into the significant role of leadership in performance management, emphasizing the importance of positive leadership skills for improving employee performance. It highlights key attributes of effective leaders, such as guiding vision, honesty, dedication, passion, integrity, trust, listening skills, risk-taking ability, and charisma. The presentation also touches upon effective leadership theories, including functional, behaviorist, situational/contingency, and transformational theories. It further elaborates on the performance management process, underscoring the need for positive leaders to develop performance strategies and track employee performance data through regular meetings and progress monitoring. The presentation concludes by emphasizing how positive leadership fosters a conducive environment for employee growth and organizational success.

Role Of Leadership In The
Performance Management
Leadership Skills For The
Improvement Of Employee
Performance

Leadership
• The ability towards the development of a
vision that motivates the employees
towards the passion toward a common
goal (Dong et al. 2017)

Positive Leadership Skills

Attributes of the leaders for effective
performance management
Guiding
vision Passion Integrity
Honesty Trust Listenin
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Dedicati
on Risk Charism
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Effective Leadership Theories
• Functional Theories
• Behaviourist Theories
• Situational/contingency Leadership
• Transformational Theory

Performance Management
Process
• The team of employees in the organization
needs positive leaders to develop and create
performance strategy (Chiniara and Bentein
2016)
• The leaders are the best people to track an
analyze the performance data of the employees
• Leaders can conduct short regular meetings for
the discussion and record of the milestone
allowing the organization to monitor the
progress and performance reviews of the
employees.

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