Enhance SMEs Performance through Implementing Quality Strategic Leadership, Trust in Leader, Strategic Planning

This study aims to find out how Quality strategic leadership is key in creating trust in leaders, formulating strategies and improving SME performance in Indonesia. The sample used in this research is SMEs in the East Java region, Indonesia totaling 246 SMEs with various sectors. The results showed that strategic leadership had an influence on how SMEs formulated their strategies. Strategic leadership, if considered, will form a strategic plan in accordance with the character of their SMEs and that strategic plan will improve SMEs performance and competitiveness. Strategic leadership is also able to create trust in leaders that have an impact on improving the performance of SMEs. A Quality strategic leader is also able to improve performance directly. The actions taken by management in SMEs are able to manage conditions in the SMEs where management's role in problem solving, relations between workers will also have an impact on SMEs performance. Based on the limitations of the study, we recommend conducting research on SMEs with a homogeneous SMEs sector to obtain more specific analytical results in accordance with the existing SMEs sector.