20 leadership tips to improve your skills

Gamelearn Team 12 Jun / 2015

Leadership is a long-distance run. Keeping our team motivated is essential to reach our goals. Finding a way to motivate yourself and convey that mood to your team is key to move forward. Take a note of these tips to strengthen self-motivation, inspire others and improve your leadership skills:

1. Get inspired

True motivation is inside oneself. Find what it is that inspires you, visualize your goals. If we are not motivated, we won’t be able to lead our team.

2. Think of the rest

Care about people, make them know you count on them and you want the best for your team.

3. Push away the negative

Drive negative people away from your team. Reject those ideas that bring the team’s spirits down.

4. Recruit positive people

Same as you must avoid unhealthy relationships, be sure to open the door to those that provide motivation and satisfaction to the team.

5. Appeal to values

Find out what’s important for your team and turn it into a driving force for motivation.

6. Celebrate small achievements

No matter how small the triumph you and your team achieved; it will be a great source of motivation.

7. Reward your team

There are many ways of rewarding good performance and the capability of being able to achieve important goals. The team will see it as an incentive to keep moving on the right direction.

8. Trust and delegate

Trust your team and delegate tasks. You will find that things can be done in many different ways and you will encourage creativity.

9. Get your team involved

Ask them how they are helping each other. Encourage them to improve.

10. Be transparent

Share information. Your team must know the circumstances which have an effect on the project they are part of.

11. Report problems

For that very reason, you must report problems. Working together, the situation will be faced more efficiently and finding solutions and alternatives will be easier.

12. Congratulate and don’t point the finger

Avoid pointing the finger to a specific person when there are mistakes, on the contrary, try to emphasize good performance whenever it happens. Positive feedback is fundamental to keep motivation and strengthen leadership.

13. Develop the potential of your team

Start training projects for your team to improve their skills, for example, time management. More than 500 companies, many of them multinationals, have already implemented Triskelion, the course-videogame on productivity, among their employees.

14. Demand

Good leadership is demanding, step away from mediocrity. True motivation only appears by overcoming difficulties.

15. Ask

Ask people what it is that motivates them and also the things that discourage them. Work on taking the discouraging aspects out of the equation and focus on that which encourages them.

16. Pinpoint “motivators”

Those who work enthusiastically and pass it on to the rest of the team. Make the professional development of these people a priority.

17. Don’t be afraid

Mistakes make you learn. Don’t be afraid of possible mistakes because of wrong decision making.

18. Finish what you start

As Triskelion course-videogame in productivity and time management teaches, do one thing at a time, and do it through to the end. Avoid leaving something half done so as to be more productive and more aware of your progress.

19. Team up

Strengthen the team’s unity by doing activities to change daily routine, for instance, cultural acts, team buildings, or meetings outside the office.

20. Don’t give up!

The key to success is to persevere. Every leader knows that giving up is not an option, even though it is wise to know how to quit intelligently.

What about you? What do you do to be a good leader?

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Comments

Ahmed hopeOctober 14, 2017 at 13:56
Ahmed hopeOctober 14, 2017 at 13:56
Really it helps alot and alot thank you so much.
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Jagunmolu AbdulFatai AdOctober 29, 2017 at 11:16
Jagunmolu AbdulFatai AdOctober 29, 2017 at 11:16
Thanks for this great article. I have been a leader that leads with cool heads, lately I find my people performance getting low, and I changed it to aggressive leadership. Is there any issue with that
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TomNovember 20, 2017 at 06:15
TomNovember 20, 2017 at 06:15
Great Post! All the point you have mentioned above is really helpful to become a good leader. In addition, if the organization will give leadership training also increase employee & leadership, commitment through learning & development.
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- GamelearnJanuary 11, 2018 at 11:36
  GamelearnJanuary 11, 2018 at 11:36
  Thanks for your comment!
  Happy to help 🙂
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Dimenzion3January 9, 2018 at 05:34
Dimenzion3January 9, 2018 at 05:34
Thanks for such a helpful post.
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Darari KateloApril 25, 2018 at 15:39
Darari KateloApril 25, 2018 at 15:39
great leaders don’t tell you what to do ………….. they show you how its done
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dorcusAugust 15, 2018 at 16:09
dorcusAugust 15, 2018 at 16:09
I’m aheadteacher. I write recommendation letters to the performing teachers
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StephenAugust 17, 2018 at 05:41
StephenAugust 17, 2018 at 05:41
Great ideas.
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Angelika. BajoAugust 30, 2018 at 14:20
Angelika. BajoAugust 30, 2018 at 14:20
Give an excellent impact on reading all these.
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DenisseSeptember 6, 2018 at 19:05
DenisseSeptember 6, 2018 at 19:05
I just became a team leader at my job and this is really helpful for me.
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kiran sahuSeptember 18, 2018 at 06:07
kiran sahuSeptember 18, 2018 at 06:07
Hello,
Thanks for posting your blog I like it it has impressive points which help to know how should one improve there decision making skills..
Do keep posting..!!
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Ashok kharbandaOctober 7, 2018 at 18:25
Ashok kharbandaOctober 7, 2018 at 18:25
Good ideas…..
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raghavanOctober 18, 2018 at 16:40
raghavanOctober 18, 2018 at 16:40
excellent, keep the flag flying
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Kevin BalsaraNovember 2, 2018 at 16:50
Kevin BalsaraNovember 2, 2018 at 16:50
nice article. Really liked it.
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Engr. Md. Humayun KabirNovember 3, 2018 at 01:05
Engr. Md. Humayun KabirNovember 3, 2018 at 01:05
Thank you so much for your valuable articles it’s really helpful for my future….
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EbenezerNovember 14, 2018 at 20:18
EbenezerNovember 14, 2018 at 20:18
So inspired.
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Sally SmithNovember 22, 2018 at 16:30
Sally SmithNovember 22, 2018 at 16:30
Loving the Human Factors approach !
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ElenaNovember 26, 2018 at 10:57
ElenaNovember 26, 2018 at 10:57
Great article!
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Tsebeletso Moses NyofaneDecember 1, 2018 at 16:53
Tsebeletso Moses NyofaneDecember 1, 2018 at 16:53
I put my teams’ needs ahead of mine,try to come with more positive ideas that can strengthen our team work.
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AnilFebruary 12, 2019 at 05:16
AnilFebruary 12, 2019 at 05:16
Nice awesome ideas. If we follow all, then definitely one day we become a good team leader
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SriniMarch 3, 2019 at 13:08
SriniMarch 3, 2019 at 13:08
Valuable points mentioned to become a good leader
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talhaMarch 11, 2019 at 05:47
talhaMarch 11, 2019 at 05:47
very motivatinl thanx for sharing
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prabhakarMarch 23, 2019 at 12:07
prabhakarMarch 23, 2019 at 12:07
thanks. good motivated skills.
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Houn SeilaApril 25, 2019 at 05:30
Houn SeilaApril 25, 2019 at 05:30
I need to learn this skill
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BabaFebruary 13, 2020 at 08:25
BabaFebruary 13, 2020 at 08:25
Learning new skills made today’s human beings. A very good insights you have given. loves your thoughts. Thanks
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B. ManfieldMarch 18, 2020 at 10:39
B. ManfieldMarch 18, 2020 at 10:39
It is really bad advise to push away the negative. You should never drive negative people away from your team, you should you should challenge them and motivate them to see the positive, rejecting any idea will cause issues within a team. As a leader it is your role to ensure that all ideas are heard and as a team, discuss pro & cons and then move forward with each person taking some kind of responsibility to the success of that idea. Giving people who lack motivation a sense of responsibility in their work will drive them to achieve positive results. Driving negativity away is not what leaders do.
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- Gamelearn TeamMarch 24, 2020 at 10:52
  Gamelearn TeamMarch 24, 2020 at 10:52
  It’s a good point, indeed. The best leaders should be able to redirect negativity into motivation or positive thinking. We see what you mean, and agree with that too.
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Dnial WilsonJune 11, 2020 at 11:59
Dnial WilsonJune 11, 2020 at 11:59
I think this information will be helpful for everyone who wants to become a successful leader in this ultra-modern era.
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BaleeghaJune 20, 2020 at 06:26
BaleeghaJune 20, 2020 at 06:26
Thanks for this article ?
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BaleeghaJune 20, 2020 at 06:27
BaleeghaJune 20, 2020 at 06:27
I inspired?
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Tameka hudsonAugust 21, 2020 at 10:02
Tameka hudsonAugust 21, 2020 at 10:02
I find it very interesting
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john barleySeptember 17, 2020 at 03:20
john barleySeptember 17, 2020 at 03:20
The most important factor is UNDERSTANDING THE WHY of the business and understanding the WHY and the WAI of the leader . What are the values of the leader?
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Alice CarrollOctober 5, 2020 at 23:38
Alice CarrollOctober 5, 2020 at 23:38
You made a good point that figuring out key motivators will help in ensuring a a more productive team later down the line. I think that’s one important skill to develop if I want to run my own business someday. If it becomes quite feasible in my lifestyle to start my own clothing boutique like I used to dream about, I think undergoing a corporate leadership training program would benefit me well.
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Samyak sharmaMay 19, 2021 at 12:30
Samyak sharmaMay 19, 2021 at 12:30
Thanks! You give very good info!
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