TITLE:
Leadership Skills Necessary for Leaders to Avoid Challenges with Productivity and Motivation
AUTHORS:
Anthony Branch
KEYWORDS:
Inspirational Leadership, Workforce Productivity, Leadership Motivation, Leadership Challenges, Leadership Skills
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.13 No.5,
August
21,
2025
ABSTRACT: Organizations are proliferating, and the competition is getting competitive in the IT sales market. Leaders should try to keep their workforce motivated and productive by inspiring the workforce. The qualitative case study included the leadership skills necessary for inspirational leaders to avoid challenges with productivity and motivation from the teams within the IT sales sector in the Southern United States. The study was conducted with 15 participants from diverse backgrounds, including age, gender, nationality, job title, and position tenure. I conducted the study using coding from interviews and surveys by collecting data from the participants’ experiences during a phenomenon, allowing me to view the phenomenon through thematic analysis using NVivo Pro 14. The emerging challenges were a strategy to implement new ways to support the issues where leaders were being more honest, providing support, better communication, showing empathy, and directing the business strategy. The process leads to job excitement and satisfaction for the employees. The leaders felt inspired when the teams were open to feedback, communicated often and honestly, and provided clear direction from leadership. The research paradigm was pragmatism, using a conceptual framework to better understand the organization used in this study.