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Transformational vs.
Transactional Leadership |
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Transactional leadership is about deployment and
management of people and resources to get results.
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Transformational leadership
is about
implementing new ideas. It
arouses emotion and taps into the emotional and spiritual resources
of an organization.
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Three Fundamental Goals
of Transformational Leadership1 |
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Helping staff develop and maintain a
collaborative culture:
Norms of collective responsibility and
continuous improvement encourage people to teach each other how to
do things better. Transformational leaders involve staff in
collaborative goal setting, reduce isolation, use bureaucratic
mechanisms to support cultural changes, share leadership with others
by delegating power, and actively communicate the company's
values, norms and
beliefs.
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Fostering staff development:
employee motivation for
development is enhanced when they internalize goals for professional
growth. This process is facilitated when they are strongly committed
to a
corporate vision.
To
inspire and
energize people, corporate
goals should be explicit and ambitious but not unrealistic.
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Helping people
solve problems
more effectively: Transformational stimulates people to
engage in new activities and put forth that "extra effort".
Transformational leaders use practices primarily to help staff
members work smarter, not harder. These leaders share a genuine
belief that their staff members as a group could develop better
solutions than the leader could alone.
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Transformational Leadership
Characteristics1,4 |
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Charisma.
This is one of those leadership qualities that is hard to define;
like beauty, you know it when you experience it.
Transformational Leaders are
charismatic, but are not as narcissistic as pure Charismatic
Leaders, who succeed through a believe in themselves rather than a
believe in others.
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Vision.
This involves the creation of a compelling picture of the future, a
desired future state that people identify with. By
creating this vision, the
leader provides a means for people to develop commitment, a common
goal around around which to rally, and a way for people to feel
successful.
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Intellectual
stimulation. Transformational leaders show
new ways of
looking at old problems, they
challenge the existing boundaries and the mental prisons people
put themselves into.
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Inspiration.
To inspire is
difficult, requiring as it does a decent understanding of
psychology.
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NLP
Technology of Achievement
Creating Inevitable
Success: 5 Steps |
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Set your brain on the path toward achieving
your goal so that it's working on it all day long –
traveling the actual path will then become much
easier...
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The 8 Stage Change Process
By John P. Kotter |
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Defrost a hardened
status quo:
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Establish a sense of urgency...
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What is Transformational
Leadership?
Transformational
leadership is about implementing new ideas. These individuals continually
change themselves; they stay flexible and adaptable; and continually improve
those around them.
The transformational leader encourages
followers by
acting as a role
model,
motivating
through
inspiration,
stimulating intellectually, and giving individualized consideration for
needs and goals.3
Major Leadership Schools: Correlation
Overall, transformational leaders
balance
their attention between action that creates progress and the mental state of
their followers. Perhaps more than other leadership approaches, they are
people-oriented and believe that success comes first and last through deep
and sustained commitment.
Why Transformational
Leadership?
Transformational leadership empowers people to greatly exceed their previous
levels of accomplishment.
This
dynamic and innovative leadership style challenges and motivates an entire
organization – top to bottom.
They put passion and energy into everything. They care about people and want
people to succeed.
The result is individual, group, and organizational achievement beyond
expectations.
Why Change Fails: 8 Errors Leaders Make
Transformational vs. Transactional Leadership
Transactional leadership is complementary with
transformational leadership.
Transactional leaderships is about
deployment and management of people and resources to get results. It is
based on an exchange of services for various kinds of
rewards that the leader
controls. Transactional leadership is a first stage and central to getting
day-to-day routines carried out. It works only when both leaders and
followers understand and are in agreement about which tasks are important.
Transactional leadership is essential to getting the job done but
transformational leadership is what provides the emotional glue that causes
organizations and the people in them to excel.
Breaking the Rules
So what separates extraordinary
leaders from proponents of the status quo?
They break the rules. Except, not in an arbitrary or
capricious way. When you look at examples of extraordinary
leadership, like the Founding Fathers of the United States or
Jack Welch of
GE, certain practices or principles become apparent. To
start, there is a
declaration of what the future will be. There is also a
purpose, something to stand for. And finally, there is a clearly
articulated commitment...
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Case
Study
Jack
Welch
Jack Welch
has been with the General Electric Company (GE)
since 1960. Having taken GE with a market capitalization of about $12 billion,
Jack Welch turned it into one of the largest and most admired companies in the
world, with a market value of about $500 billion, when he stepped down as its
CEO 20 years later, in 2000. Although Jack Welch is "the celebrated
leader of a global manufacturer often noted for its technological prowess,
he has utilized a very human process to
drive change
through GE's vast organization. Having respect for the individual as a
pivotal force in organizational change,
Welch created a model of exceptional performance every
corporate leader
can learn from.
25 Lessons from Jack Welch
Developing and Selling the
Vision
As a Transformational Leader, you must start
with the development of a vision, a view of
the future that will excite and convert your potential followers.
Inspirational Leader: 10 Roles
"The next step, which in fact never stops, is
to constantly sell the vision. This
takes energy and commitment, as few people will immediately buy into a
radical vision, and some will join the show much more slowly than others.
You must take every opportunity and use whatever works to convince others to
to climb on board the bandwagon."4
In order to create followers, you have to be
very careful in creating trust, and
your personal personal integrity is
a critical part of the package that you are selling. In effect, you are
selling yourself as well as the vision.
Keep People In The Know
"Transformational leaders
empower others by keeping them "in the know," by keeping
them fully informed on everything that effects their jobs," says
Brian Tracy. "People want and need to feel that they are
“insiders,” that they are aware of everything that is going on.
There is nothing so demoralizing to a staff member than to be
kept in the dark about their work and what is going on in the
company."...
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Six Core Skills of a
Transformational Leader...
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Balancing Dynamic Organizational Dichotomies...
Making Big Changes...
Creating Change...
Leading Change...
Change Management...
8 Reasons Why Change
Efforts Fail...
6Ws of Change Management...
Create Corporate Guiding
Principles...
Employee Empowerment...
Your Emotional Task...
Emotional Intelligence (EI)...
Inspiring People...
Energizing People...
Leading by Example...
Empowerment Is a Key...
Action Exercise...
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