Understand where your core strengths exist and how to adjust your leadership style to develop peak performers and leverage the best talent to reach organizational goals.

1. Jewel Daniels Radford
How to Become a
Transformational Leader

2. How to Become a
Transformational Leader
Understand how to adjust your leadership style
How to get the best out of your team by working
to meet their needs
Leverage individual and team strengths to develop
plans and reach strategic goals
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3. DEFINING LEADERSHIP
Set goals,
Light a path, and
Persuade others to follow!
A Leader inspires, makes the most of their limited time, upholds the
central mission and builds roads to precious resources.
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4. DEFINING LEADERSHIP
Leaders have their eyes on the horizon.
A leader innovates.
A leader is an original.
A leader develops.
A leader focuses on people.
A leader inspires trust.
A leader has a long-range perspective.
A leader asks what and why.
A leader challenges it.
A leader does the right thing.
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5. MENTORCOACH
VISIONARY
CHALLENGE
TRUST
EMPOWER
DEMONSTRATE
MOTIVATE
INSPIREVISIONARY
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6. P0LL
Which leadership characteristic do you find
most challenging to practice?
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Text a CODE (see below) to 37607 Submit responses at pollev.com/DCG
Visionary/Forecasting the Future 294564
Mentoring/Building New Leaders 294565
Empowering/ Letting Others Take Ownership 294566
Motivating Others to Act 294573
Demonstrating/Leading by Example 294574

7. Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it
requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes
on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
~Lewis H. Lapham
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8. 1. Adjust Your Perspective
2. Keep Your Hand Off the Panic Button
3. Victim or Volunteer
4. Call on Your SME’s
A Seven Step Process
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The Leadership Process

9. Subject Matter Experts
Get the best out of a team by working to meet their needs
McClelland's Needs Theory
•Need for Achievement
•Need for Power
•Need for Affiliation
•Need to Avoid Failure
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10. Subject Matter Experts
Methods that build on individual and team strengths that
help plan and prepare for weathering difficult storms
Question: How could you use McClelland 's Needs Theory to
create a positive motivational climate?
• Properly pair or realign team member skills with jobs/tasks
• Build teams around internal and external challenges to
formulate solutions
• Develop a plan that reflects team member ideas and
perspectives
• Empower teams - allowing for ownership and rewards
• Test…Measure…Share Results!
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11. In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships.
The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more
important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
~Margaret Wheatly Leadership and the New Science
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12. The Leadership Process
5. Remain Customer Focused
6. Keep Your Finger on the Pulse
7. Turn Crisis into Opportunity
A Seven Step Process
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13. If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you
are a leader.
~John Quincy Adams

14. What goals do you have for becoming a stronger leader?
What’s getting in your way?
What are you going to do about it?
When will you do it?
How can I help?
Becoming a
Transformational Leader

15. Please prepare an elevator pitch (30 second story) about yourself and
your place in your company’s history
• It can include a particular accomplishment, your team’s accomplishment, or your
company’s accomplishment where you had an impact
• It can represent a time when you felt especially proud / good about being a part
of your company
• Other, you decide
Becoming a
Transformational Leader

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Think of three people who are in need of development. Try to chose one
Top Performer, one Solid Performer, and one Underperformer
Person One____________________
1. Are they top performer, a solid performer, or underperformer?
2. Where is their current skills and competency?
3.Do you have understanding of their career interests and objectives?
4. What types of development experience do you think could benefit them?
Becoming a
Transformational Leader

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