REPUBLIC COLLEGES OF GUINOBATAN, INC

School of Gradute Studies and Research

G. Alban Street, Guinobatan , Albay

Activity 2 – Management Tips for Great Leaders

1. Share Info

Great leaders are normally great communicators. They know how and when to speak up as well
as knowing when to listen. This is also a common trait among great managers. It’s very important to
ensure that your message reaches its intended target the right way.

As a leader you need to show your point to people, so improving your communication skills is crucial.
You have to generate an impact on others when you speak.

2. Say Thanks

One of the most impactful things a leader can do to build commitment is give meaningful
recognition. Giving positive feedback and praise is just as important as having those tough
conversations. You want to ensure that you are catching employees when they do something right, not
just when things go wrong. Saying thank you can have an enormous impact on the employee and their
level of commitment. Work life can be stressful-especially in the management or leadership role.
Expressing gratitude can be a way to manage stress. They also found that “gratitude enhances effortful
goal striving.”The powerful thing about recognition, is that when people believe you think highly of them,
they strive to keep you thinking that highly. Employees are more likely to go further for a customer or co-
worker who thinks they do a great job because they don’t want to let them down. Recognition and praise
must be meaningful. Research shows that leaders need to give recognition and praise on a weekly basis
in order for employees to recognize they are receiving recognition on a regular basis. Recognition drives
discretionary effort. It drives that motivation for an employee to take something one step further or make
something even better.

3. Empower through Delegation

Great leaders don’t try to do all the work by themselves. Micromanaging your team is bad, you
should give them the autonomy to do their own work and have the room to be creative.

Empowering others is a daily task for a great leader. You need to delegate tasks so that you
show your employees you trust them and their ability to get positive results. This is a great way to
motivate your workforce.

4. Adjust your Style

First and foremost, the willingness and ability to adjust allow you to get the most out of your team
in every situation. Ploughing ahead with one leadership style regardless of the context is a surefire way
to alienate team members and see morale plummet; whereas adapting will bring people into the fold,
and help them to succeed. Adaptive leadership will create a success-led workplace, where team
members will grow accustomed to challenges being addressed and resolved, rather than ignored or
used as the basis for blame. As a result of these things, people will respect the leadership: a key factor
of a healthy workplace where people feel valued and keyed in to the goals of the organisation. There will
be more opportunities for dialogue between you and your team, and a more tangible synergy. Changing
your leadership style will also allow you to scale your involvement so that your management remains
effective. The overarching goals stay fairly consistent as team size increases, but the time you have to
spend with individual employees will change. By adapting to this reality, you can ensure management
still achieves results despite having less time with each team member. Overall, adaptive leadership
fosters healthy and consistent self development, as it relies on you looking inward, reflecting on your
shortfalls, and making the refinements required for success. In short, it’s not just the organisation that
benefits from successful leadership: it’s the leader, and the people they manage as well.

5. Set Small Milestone

Setting Milestones is an important aspect of project management. The process allows you to
create a clear and attainable project plan, while enabling you to see and monitor your progress.
Milestones increase focus because they lay out the urgency of each step of the project ahead of you.
Avoid aiming to set a certain number of milestones “just because.” Instead, pay attention to the key
tasks your team needs to accomplish in order for your project to progress. Using milestones as
tasks. Milestones should represent a moment in time. To track the work you need to do to get there, use
tasks instead.

6. Have Fun

Happiness expert and author of The Happiness Advantage, suggests, "Write a positive note or
email each day praising or thanking someone. If you make this a short note, less than 2 minutes, this is
a daily routine that we have found dramatically raises your social connection score. Researchers have
found that social connection is as predictive of how long you will live as obesity and smoking."

7. Remove Obstacles

One of the best things you can do as a leader is to remove the obstacles that stand in the way of
your team’s success.A great leader knows the significance of seeing obstacles, considering ways to
remove them and engaging others in the same process.We do it by removing barriers facing our
employees, showing empathy in our leadership style, being committed, selfless, willing to sacrifice our
own wants and needs and, most importantly, by being an incredible listener.

8. Give Feedbacks

Feedback Helps Employees Achieve Their Goals. One key characteristic of a good leader is that
they are able to reach organizational goals by motivating others. Giving constructive feedbacks helps
individuals grow by learning how they can improve and by reinforcing the activities they are doing well.
This ultimately helps them achieve both personal and organizational goals.

9. Raise your Hand

Many fall into this “expectation” that we will be asked to step up or even be tapped to lead a
project without saying we want to do it. And yes, letting your manager know you want to do a certain
project, task or lead an initiative, could make a big difference. All you have to do is tell them and raise
your hand. Raising a hand in the corporate world would be different than what we were used to during
our school days. Raising your hand to take on a project or do something beyond your current role
requires confidence and accountability. In the past I was so eager to learn more, I took on projects,
initiatives, even those that were not related to work. I was under the illusion that this would impress my
manager and make me more valuable to the organisation. I was wrong and I learned this the hard way.
On my performance review, I merely met the expectations for my role and my performance indicators
were all below the standard. There is a purpose for every job, and the simplest way to be value adding
to your company is to do well on the role you were hired for. So when you ask yourself if you’re
performing at the right level in your current role, you think of your expertise. You need to ensure that you
are performing well or beyond from what is expected from you.

When you raise your hand, you are showing interest and passion that you believe you can do something
to improve processes or systems or address certain issues within the organisation. Raising a hand is a
starter, it is the first step. When you raise your hand, that’s the time you speak with your manager and
discuss projects or initiatives. When you raise your hand to do a certain task or project, you are forced to
go out of your comfort zone. This is when you learn to think, adapt and make decisions beyond your
usual role. It’s another level of building your expertise. It allows you to stretch out and know your limits
and go beyond them. Knowing when and why you should ask for more responsibilities could be very
motivating especially when you work with your manager to create new venues for progress. Progress is
a responsibility that falls not only on your manager’s decisions but most of the time with yours. And it all
starts by raising a hand

10. Focus your Time

Time is a finite resource, so you need to properly adjust your schedule to your team’s needs.
Great leaders know what to prioritize and when to prioritize certain issues. You will need to make
decisions quickly in order to provide your company with a marketplace advantage.

As a leader, it's imperative that you have a vision. But it's also imperative that you focus on the present
moment above anything else. It's tempting to get lost in the vision of the future. It's also tempting to get
lost in the past and bring some of those shortcomings or regrets to the present.

Neither of those situations serves you. The past is irreversible and the future is too uncertain to predict.
All you can control is the present moment and your emotions.

PREPARED BY:

RAYMART N. NAAG