Respond to… According to Northouse (2018), bass identified the following four transformational leadership factors: 1.  Idealized Influence is the component of leadership where a leader leads in a way that inspires his or her followers to want to follow. Leaders that are able to lead with idealized influence lead in a way that creates trust with followers. Leaders foster trust by typically leading in a moral and ethical manner and are characterized by their followers as a person that does the right thing.  In my career I have experienced many leaders that I respected and chose to follow due to their high morality and desire to do the right thing. However, one particular leader stands out. I currently work for a large scale medical provider and our Chief Medical Officer (CMO), is someone that leads with idealized influence, people want to follow him because he inspires us all to do the right thing and to administer medicine in a way that positions us all to deliver on our mission, which is delivering hello humankindness. Furthermore, our CMO teaches new providers, we are an academic medical provider, to deliver hello humankindness and reach people on a personal level; building rapport and establishing relationships that are built on trust, respect, and transparency for the greater good of humanity instead of for the good of making money. 2. Inspirational Motivation- According to Northouse (2018), "This factor is descriptive of leaders who communicate high expectations to followers, inspiring them through motivation to become committed to and a part of the shared vision in the organization" (section 8.1, para. 25). Leaders that chose to create inspiration do so by creating a work enviornement that fosters the desire for his or her staff to want to complete the work in the prescribed manner because it is a way that is mutually beneficial to the organization, team and department. Leaders that creation inspirational motivation clearly communicate expectations and goals. 3. Intellectual Stimulation is leadership that creates a desire within followers to challenge the status quo by being innovative, thinking outside of the box, and by creating two way communication.  Followers that experience intellectual stimulation are constantly thinking about different and more efficient ways to complete the work without being asked to do so. intellectual stimulation is present when staff is engaged and thinking critically. 4. Individualized Consideration is leading in way that seeks to listen to staff for the purposes of helping to continuously move forward, to evolve in their career and in their work.  Leaders that exhibit individualized consideration do so by spending time with each person on their team to develop them, to coach them and to position them to achieve their goals; they do this in a unique and individualized way for each person.  In my current role, I meet with each person on my team monthly for a one on one. During this time we talk about d.

1. Respond to…
According to Northouse (2018), bass identified the following
four transformational leadership factors:
1. Idealized Influence is the component of leadership where a
leader leads in a way that inspires his or her followers to want
to follow. Leaders that are able to lead with idealized influence
lead in a way that creates trust with followers. Leaders foster
trust by typically leading in a moral and ethical manner and are
characterized by their followers as a person that does the right
thing.
In my career I have experienced many leaders that I respected
and chose to follow due to their high morality and desire to do
the right thing. However, one particular leader stands out. I
currently work for a large scale medical provider and our Chief
Medical Officer (CMO), is someone that leads with idealized
influence, people want to follow him because he inspires us all
to do the right thing and to administer medicine in a way that
positions us all to deliver on our mission, which is delivering
hello humankindness. Furthermore, our CMO teaches new
providers, we are an academic medical provider, to deliver hello
humankindness and reach people on a personal level; building
rapport and establishing relationships that are built on trust,
respect, and transparency for the greater good of humanity
instead of for the good of making money.
2. Inspirational Motivation- According to Northouse (2018),
"This factor is descriptive of leaders who communicate high exp
ectations to followers, inspiring them through motivation to bec
ome committed to and a part of the shared vision in the organiza
tion" (section 8.1, para. 25). Leaders that chose to create

2. inspiration do so by creating a work enviornement that fosters
the desire for his or her staff to want to complete the work in
the prescribed manner because it is a way that is mutually
beneficial to the organization, team and department. Leaders
that creation inspirational motivation clearly communicate
expectations and goals.
3. Intellectual Stimulation is leadership that creates a desire
within followers to challenge the status quo by being
innovative, thinking outside of the box, and by creating two
way communication. Followers that experience intellectual
stimulation are constantly thinking about different and more
efficient ways to complete the work without being asked to do
so. intellectual stimulation is present when staff is engaged and
thinking critically.
4. Individualized Consideration is leading in way that seeks to
listen to staff for the purposes of helping to continuously move
forward, to evolve in their career and in their work. Leaders
that exhibit individualized consideration do so by spending time
with each person on their team to develop them, to coach them
and to position them to achieve their goals; they do this in a
unique and individualized way for each person. In my current
role, I meet with each person on my team monthly for a one on
one. During this time we talk about desires and goals. We
partner together to create goals and milestones to work towards
them, even if the followers desire is to leave the department.
Those that are constantly moving towards their goals and being
positioned to exhibit newly learned and mastered skills have a
tendency to be more engaged and have a desire to complete the
work in a way that efficient and mutually beneficial.
Transformational leadership is concerned with leading people in
a way that creates the desire for staff to be engaged and to
complete work in the prescribed manner whereas transnational
leadership is more concerned with completing work to achieve a

3. set of desired outcomes, like the attainment of a bonus.
Transformational leadership is characterized by intrinsic
motivation versus transactional leadership that is more about
extrinsic motivation.
Resource
Northouse, P. (2018). Leadership theory and practice (8th ed.).
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Respond to…
I really enjoyed this quote about transformational leadership,
“Through the strength of their vision and personality,
transformational leaders are able to inspire followers to change
expectations, perceptions, and motivations
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to work towards common goals” (Cherry, 2020, para. 4).
Northouse (2018) expands on that definitaion using Bass’s four
components of transformational leadership, followers will
reach a performance that is beyond expectations.
Bass suggested that there were four components of
transformational leadership (Northouse, 2018):
Intellectual Stimulation – where leaders challenge the status
quo and encourage creativity. This has been my experience
working under Brian Cornell at Target for the last 5 years. He
literally turned the company around with a new vision and
values. He challenged us to work smarter and with everything
we do, put the guests needs foremost. That is how our teams
developed adaptive clothing for children, reimagined the stores,
and created over 26 store brands.

4. Individualized consideration – where leaders encourage
individual followers with open communication. All feel invited
and welcome to share opinions.
Inspirational motivation – where leaders offer a clear vision and
pass on their passion of that vision to the followers. Cornell
also set out a crystal-clear vision during the first couple of
years that influenced every decision made. If there were good
ideas that did not support the three things, then it was not
approved to move forward. Those three things were to fix our
distribution system, improve the .com experience and remodel
our aging fleet of stores.
Idealized influence – where leaders are role models for
followers. The leaders inspire trust and respect among the
followers; and eventually, the followers internalize the values
and ideals of the leader.
Transactional leaders will lead their teams to expected
outcomes, and that is not a bad thing. In contrast,
transformational leaders will lead their teams to accomplish
goals that are beyond the expected outcomes.
References:
Cherry, K. (2020) Transformational Leadership A Closer Look
at the Effects oftransformational Leadership. Retrieved
from https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-transformational-
leadership-2795313#citation-1
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Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage
publications.