Transformational Leadership - A Brief Summary

As promised, 31 days of Leadership. Everyday a different style of Leadership.

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1. Transformational Leadership

Transformational Leadership is a leadership style that transforms who it touches. A counter to the traditional - work for pay - transactional model; transformational leadership ensures that an organization’s adherents are entered into a change process that sees them develop themselves in a multitude of ways.

Transformational leadership is a theory of leadership that is inspiring, motivational, and encourages innovation. Employees under this leadership experience confidence, wellness, and a feeling that they are growing as an individual as a result of the organization they are in.

Some schools of thought offer Individualized Consideration, Intellectual Stimulation, Inspirational Motivation, and Idealized Influence as basic tenets.

Some of the detractors from this style of leadership cite potential burn out, overwhelm, a lack of leader follower boundaries, and the emotional toll that having a vision and being tied to the outcome can take.

Overall, it can be said that transformational leadership is a leadership style that comes in handy when a leader is trying to rally the troops and needs cooperative team work to get the job done.

You may be under transformational leadership if you feel you can speak to your superior about anything, if you are constantly being afforded training to develop your skills, they may also offer tuition reimbursement, and other transformational incentives to ensure you leave the organization better then when you arrived.

They invest in you.

A common saying in reference to this form of leadership is, “What if we train and develop the employees and they leave?” To which, the supporter of transformational leadership replies, “What if we don’t train or develop them, and they stay?”

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