Leadership

Week 5 - Personnel Issues and Motivation

Morale

High morale will carry a group through the most arduous situations. A group with low morale will crumble at the slightest difficulty. High morale is the overall result of good leadership. If you find that morale is low, are you sure your leadership priorities are right?

Motivation

1. People need to have a sense of achievement.
2. Let people contribute ideas and let them see these ideas through.
3. Set positive standards against which results can be measured.
4. Give people a sense of responsibility and the opportunity to try new ideas.
5. Seek their opinion; give them a real role to play and variety within that role.
6. Provide a challenge and recognise their achievements.
7. Don’t be afraid to say “Thank you” or “Well done” – especially when it’s deserved.

Delegation & task ownership

You can’t do it all – and you shouldn’t try to. Let other people share the task. People enjoy owning a task – so why not let them have a go. Even if you already know the best way to do something, it’s important to let someone else try out their ideas. There are enormous potential team benefits.

Buzz words

Realism, criticism, acceptable boundaries, fairness, right, wrong, control, bully, favourite, equality.

Being an effective leader

Set Goals

1. Be specific
2. Be clear
3. Be Fair
4. Be enthusiastic
5. Feedback and follow up

Praising and Reprimanding

1. Be specific
2. Criticise the behaviour, not the person
3. Tell them how you feel about it
4. Tell them why (they’re a good person)
5. Reprimand in private – Praise in public
   Say, ”I’ll see you later,” then move straight on.

General

1. Be fair and be seen to be fair
2. Catch people doing things right

Be PERFECT, be PREPARED, use PRAYER, have the right PEOPLE, PERSERVERE, be POSITIVE