Transformational leadership motivates and inspires employees to achieve organizational goals. It involves setting a moral example, building a positive culture, empowering employees to make decisions, and mentoring them. A transformational leader encourages motivation, exemplifies ethical values, fosters open communication, and helps employees develop their skills for the greater good of the organization. While effective for enabling change, transformational leadership requires an existing structure and may not be suitable for all situations.
2. What is transformational leadership?
Transformational Leadership is a leadership style in
which the leader motivate, inspire and encourage
the team member to create change in their working
abilities that will help in grow and shape the future
success of company and get their goals.
This only can be accomplished by setting an
example at executive level by building strong
corporate culture and independence at the
workplace.
3. Transactional leaders motivates and
inspire their workforce by trusting the
trained employees and giving them right
to take decisions in their area of working.
It is new way that allows employees to
create a room and find new solutions to
solve different problems.
4. Transformational Leadership
Characteristics
These are the signs of the transactional leaders that keep
them apart from the other leadership styles. A
transformational leader is someone who:
1. Encourages the motivation and positive development of
followers.
2. Exemplifies moral standards within the organization and
encourages the same of others.
3. Fosters an ethical work environment with clear values,
priorities and standards.
5. Transformational Leadership
Characteristics
4. Builds company culture by encouraging employees to move
from an attitude of self-interest to a mindset where they are
working for the common good.
5. Holds an emphasis on authenticity, cooperation and open
communication.
6. Provides coaching and mentoring but allowing employees to
make decisions and take ownership of tasks.
7. 1. Individualized Consideration
Individualized Consideration is the extent to which a
leader is a mentor, coach or guide to the follower
and attends to each of their needs.
When a leader shows individualized consideration
they also get aware of the unique talent of each
worker that he brings to the workplace and helps
them to develop and extend those skills. This leads
the follower to aspire to develop further and they
show intrinsic motivation when performing their
work.
8. 2. Inspirational Motivation
Inspirational Motivation is the degree to which a
leader articulates an appealing vision that inspires
and motivates others to perform beyond
expectations. Inspirational motivational using
leaders have high expectations from their followers.
They are hopeful about follower’s ability to meet
their goals and by showing importance to all duties
and responsibility, they always provide meanings to
their followers.
9. 3. Idealized Influence
Transformational leaders who show Idealized
Influence by engaging themselves in high
standard of ethical behavior, are the role
model for their followers. These leaders
usually have very high standards of moral
and ethical conduct and can be considered
to doing the right thing.
10. 4. Intellectual Stimulation
Intellectual Stimulation is the extent to which
transformational leaders challenge assumptions,
take risks and solicit followers’ ideas. They identify
their followers by their creativity and innovation.
The leaders support and collaborates with the
followers when they try new approaches to meet
the goals of the organization.
11. Advantages and Disadvantages of
Transformational Leadership
Transformational leadership is good for
those organizations who wants to
change. But the transactional leadership
is not good for the organizations that
have no structure.
12. Transformational leadership pros
1. Excellent at communicating new ideas
2. Good at balancing short-term vision and long-term
goals
3. Experience building strong coalitions and
establishing mutual trust
4. They have integrity and high emotional intelligence
(empathy with others)
13. Transformational leadership cons
1. Ineffective in initial stage or ad-hoc situations
2.Require an existing structure to fix
3.Bad fit in bureaucratic structure.